Podcast - 14th May 2014
This week's podcast begins with a new keenly-priced flagship smartphone from Huawei. We then move on to talk about a UK price promise from Vodafone, mobile payments, feature phone upgrades, WiFi hotspots and the benefits of a Carphone/Dixons merger.
Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge condense all the biggest mobile industry news headlines from the past 7 days into a free 30-minute podcast.
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Feelin’ groufie
Mark Bridge writes:
Last week a major retailer with a significant online presence announced plans to release its own-brand smartphone by the end of the year. No, not Amazon. This news came from Tesco.
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Mobile payment service provider iZettle has announced €40 million (£33 million) of new funding.
This Series C (i.e. third) funding round was led by London-based investor Zouk Capital, with Dawn Capital, Intel Capital and a number of existing investors also participating.
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Vodafone is enabling customers to add loyalty cards and membership cards to its ‘mobile wallet’ app.
Although the application hasn’t yet been launched in the UK, it’s already available in a number of European countries.
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Mobile payment service Paym has launched today in the UK.
The new service lets customers transfer money to other people via their mobile phone number, with no need to know bank account or sort code numbers.
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