We hope the pranks played on you during April Fools’ Day were not too rough. Fortunately, the month is over for now and silly jokes can wait for a year. To get back to serious content, here are the news stories that caught our eye during the past month.
Beside the stories listed below, we also recommend to check out our Poland country profile, as well as the impact of spending limits on consumer spending, based on the example of Google Play and Telekom Slovenia.
General mobile
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Visual Capitalist: How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions
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TechCrunch: Tinder becomes the top-grossing, non-game app in Q1 2019, ending Netflix’s reign
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The Drum: Super apps are the next frontier for adtech in South East Asia
Payments
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Medianama: Netflix testing weekly subscriptions in India; plans start at Rs 65
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Mobile Payments Today: Nasper's PayU acquires Wibmo for $70M for India payments consolidation
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Mobile World Live: Vietnam operators set for mobile money trials
Digital Publishing
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What’s New In Publishing: 10 essential media stats from March 2019
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What’s New In Publishing: “TikTok represents uncharted territory”: What publishers need to know
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Digiday: ‘Basically playing favorites’: Apple News+ gets off to a rocky start for some publishers
E-commerce
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TechCrunch: PayPal makes a big marketplace play with its $500M investment in Uber
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The Drum: ‘Super-app’ Grab expects to raise another $2bn in funding this year
Digital content
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Hollywood Reporter: International Streamers Investing Millions to Take on Netflix Overseas
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MIDIA’s Music Industry Blog: 10 Trends That Will Reshape the Music Industry