(source: business.gov.au)
This year’s Mobile World Congress may have ended a week ago, but post-conference conversations on where mobile’s going next abound. Following exciting, game-changing announcements made by MasterCard and other key players in the space, MPD CEO Karen Webster sat down with Jorn Lambert, Group Executive...
MasterCard CMO Raj Rajamannar has observed major changes in advertising as the practice has moved from digital into mobile. But what’s even more important than mobile, he says, is mobility. On the eve of speaking before the Mobile Media Summit @ Mobile World Congress, Rajamannar...
What’s the fastest growing mobile money market in the world? Africa. So much so that smartphone penetration across the continent is expected double in just four years - increasing from 17 percent in 2014 to 34 percent by the end of 2018. That’s of course...
Earlier this month, MasterCard kicked off its first-ever Masters of Code competition in Sydney, Australia. The 10-city event will traverse the globe, pitting developers, designers and entrepreneurs in friendly competition, using MasterCard-supplied APIs to create the most innovative prototypes for next-generation commerce applications. Just after...
MasterCard announced yesterday that it will be teaming up with Silicon Valley Bank to offer a virtual, four-month program designed to help commerce-focused startups prosper. Dubbed Commerce.Innovated, the program is highly selective and is based on the level of innovation a startup's solution involves. It...
MasterCard’s Masters of Code Hackathon Series officially kicks off today in Sydney, Australia, focusing first on mobile commerce innovation. Following Sydney, the Series will move to other parts of the world, encompassing themes like security, financial inclusion and commerce innovation. In a recent interview, Mario...
Tim Cook may say that 2015 is the “Year of Apple Pay” but 2015 might be the year in which the split between card-present, NFC, in-store, card-not-present, online and in-app, begin to disappear, Matt Barr, SVP of Emerging Payments for the U.S., MasterCard told MPD...
Consumers are constantly looking for ways to simplify their lives; this includes everything from online banking to public transit. MasterCard now has their hand in each of these scenarios. The company announced today that it’s joining forces with Masabi, provider of mobile ticketing for transit,...
There are over 1.3 million software engineers in the world, including coders, but who are the Top 10 and where they can be found? MasterCard has designed a series of hackathons that will travel the world in search of the very best developers, designers and...
