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  • UK first ever 4G network has out reached to almost half of the population over the period of just five months- A report by EE

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  • UK’s first and the only 4G network has outreached to almost half of the businesses and homes. The EE carrier has confirmed that they have switched on more than 13 cities and towns to reach more than 50% of the population, in just the five month of its launch. EE further said that their aim is to get to 98% of the population by the end of 2014.
    Previously company has stated that they have rolled out their network to more than 55% population in June and also claimed the speeded up schedules. Now 4G launch is in Bingley, West Bromwich, Dudley, Doncaster, Lichfield, Harpenden, Leicester, Bradford, Loughborough, St Albans, Reading, Luton, and Shipley, in addition with more than 30 cities and towns as they are going to get live by the end June, 2013. This brings the total rollout of 80 for the 4GEE network.

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  • Mobile Devices Will Account For Most of The Global IT Spend- Total Spend to Rise 4.1% To $3.8 Trillion In 2013

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  • The annual report by Gartner regarding the expected expenditures in IT sector in coming two years, based on sales in telecoms, enterprise, software and hardware. The reports revealed that $3.8 trillion is expected to be spent on almost all IT sectors. The overall growth rate in 2012 was just 2.1%, decline in trends of legacy technologies has ultimately boosted mobile sector.
    The telecoms sector continuing its trend will be the most developing sector for the coming years with 45% of the total spent i.e. $1.69
    The report clearly specifies the sign of revolution in technology and the areas which have been affected most either in terms of increase or decrease, example of fixed voice services is a perfect reference to judge such technological shifts, the change in consumer behaviors who are more likely to adopt mobile-only contracts and also the much competitive market are the core reasons for the downfall of fixed voice services. On the other hand, the new comers like smartphones; tablets etc are going to boost up and will dominate the IT world in coming future. Both these trends are expected to have a smooth and flat growth rate for the current and next year because of their offsetting tendency.

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  • Intuit’s Pay- A Mobile Payments Services Launched In UK, Moving One Step Ahead of PayPal & Square

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  • Intuit launched its new card payment acceptance service which is a mobile based service. The service has been launched today and will be available generally all across UK. The European markets of mobile payment are getting crowded on a very fast pace as many new startups are intervening into the targeted market of the businesses which do not accept payments via credit cards. With this emergence of potential market, the competition is getting tough as intuit launched its service just after the announcement of PayPal regarding its new mobile payment service in UK. However, square -the biggest rival of Intuit in US market have some plans to extend the competition level now in UK as well, later this year.

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  • Stripe, The Payments Startup Launches Its Limited Beta Platform For UK. Euros ‘Coming Soon’

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  • Stripe has launched its beta and closed platform today for its limited number of UK partners, Stripe- the payments startup will open its platform gradually for remaining partners which are apparently ‘thousands’ in numbers waiting for their turn.
    Stripe’s UK platform will provide all those features as it’s providing to its US partners, the features comprises of chronic support for billing, complete APIs for both mobile and web payments, credentials storage of payments, instantaneous activation, and simple PCI conformity. The company’s cofounder Mr. Patrick Collison also confirmed the same thing in his speech at London Web Summit .

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  • Yuilop, Free European Messaging Service Plans To Launch Its Services In U.S In One To Two Weeks- Active in 40+ Countries With Millions of Users

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  • The  European based free messaging startup, Yuilop will be launched in U.S in next couple of weeks. Yuilop was launched in 2011 and in a very short span of time the app has summated ‘millions’ of users. Regarding the launch of app in U.S. the co-founder & CEO of the company Mr. Jochen Doppelhammer revealed at World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona that Yuilop already have some users in U.S who might have downloaded this app while traveling to some other country or from workarounds but the app will now be officially launched in U.S in coming one or two weeks, he also said that the app will be launched both for the Android and iOS.

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  • Tesco has geared up against the retail giant Amazon for fight with Blinkboxmusic, TV services and Blinkboxbooks in UK

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  • The race for grabbing the online consumers is on full heat in UK and the local giant in retail market Tesco wants to assure that it does not let Amazon to get upper hand. Tesco therefore has announced the launch of all encompassing digital entertainment service re-branded as blinkbox and containing Blinkboxbooks, Blinkboxmusic, and Clubcard TV. They will be joining the blinkbox video streaming services which were acquired by Tesco in 2011. The new book and music service will arrive some later time this year, but Clubcard TV is making its way this week later.

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  • Fon, the Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Hotspot Provider declared their Partnership with Deutsche Telekom to capture Germany With 2.5M + Hotspots by the year 2016

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  • Fon is the crowdsourced Wi-Fi hotspot provider which employs technology to permit users to securely share their broadband home connections has recently declared their partnership with German telco Deutsche Telekom for establishing the country’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot network. This new joint network will be launched by the summer with not so catchy name “WLAN TO GO”.
    DT is the hub of 12 million broadband subscribers and having 12,000 plus existing Wi-Fi hotspots across the Germany. Rene Obermann, the outgoing CEO of DT declared that, “By 2016, our aim is to facilitate the nation with WLAN TO GO for more than 2.5 million extra hotspot.”

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  • Visa inked deal with Samsung for introducing NFC mobile payment

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  • Visa has introduced its new partner for NFC initiative and has pushed into mobile payment system, worldwide. Recently, it has announced two new programs which comes along with set of APIs for the third party integration and allow them to seamlessly use their giant card payment services on their own. For Visa Ready Program, the first mobile payment partner is dongle maker- Ingenico owned by ROAM and its first global NFC partner is Samsung.
    This new deal with Samsung is aimed to make NFC based mobile payments more common and accessible to more people. Samsung in this regards, will embed Visa’s NFC software in their tablets and smartphones, shared by Bill Gajda- Global head of mobile products in Visa.

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  • Nelson data showed that Amazon App Store is the UK’s fastest growing mobile commerce

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  • Google, the Android smartphone platform in the UK is dominated landscape, 2012 (Kantar data) powering 54% at the end of the handset is in use. But Britain apps the Android owners are spending increasing time on? Researcher Nielsen fastest download Android apps come with a way to measure and app usage during May to October 2012 data crunched – in which the mobile shopping flag increase trade up.

    Increase in mobile shopping in the UK was also flagged up last December by research into UK telecoms regulator. Ofcom proposes UK data in several international markets produce desired when it comes to technology adoption and use, some of the market’s bellwether indicator. Also indicated that mobile shopping is growing in the U.S. too (data is thrown up by retailers last month, spent time in mobile apps than 5x between 2011 and 2012 has increased.)

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  • Bango raises its investment to $10.2M for taking its services to India, Brazil and other Asian markets

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  • Bango is the mobile payment company and the provider of carrier billing services for the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Blackberry, Opera, Telefonica and more. It has recently double down its strategy to enter in to emerging markets. Company has announced that it has increased its value from $6.5M to $10.2M by placing 3,250,000 shares in London Stock Exchange, each share is worth of 200 pence and the institutional investors are the main buyers for this unsubscribed offering. Bango disclosed that these funds will be employed in the Indian and Brazilian markets, as well as in the other parts of Asia and North America from February 26.

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