Apple & Google to bring social payments to the masses, driving mobile P2P users to reach 2.5bn this year

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global number of registered mobile domestic money transfer users is expected to reach 2.5 billion this year, up from an estimated 1.7 billion in 2016.

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Here’s some terrible news for journalists – IoT is making the world nicer

The year has got off to a good start. In the same week that Toyota unveiled plans for an IT infrastructure to support a global fleet of connected cars, ISIS showcased its latest driverless car bomb and North Korea set off an earthquake inducing Hydrogen bomb. Three events guaranteed to give the population the willies.

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Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time

Newbury, UK, 31 March 2014, Vodafone M-Pesa, the mobile money transfer and payment service that has transformed the lives of millions of people in emerging markets, has come to Europe for the first time.

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Kenya's Safaricom deploys new fraud management system for its mobile payment service

Nairobi, Kenya and Petersfield, UK. August 21, 2012 — Kenya’s integrated communications service provider (CSP) Safaricom is partnering with a UK-based firm, Neural Technologies to implement a fraud control solution that will further safeguard its mobile network and M-PESA platform.

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