Microsoft Windows 8 App-ortunity; are you ready to take it?
Reporting from the AIME & Microsoft Workshop (Ryan Hall – March ’13) Summary - Microsoft Windows 8 Apps Opportunity - Market data - Member Preferential Offer Mobile! Apps! Opportunity! Three big...
View ArticleOFT investigates free children’s web and app-based games – 12th April ’13
The OFT has launched an investigation into whether children are being unfairly pressured or encouraged to pay for additional content in ‘free’ web and app-based games, including upgraded membership or...
View ArticleCan Payforit V4 unlock the Paywall? Q&A with Chris Newell
This week, the Exchange blog caught up with Chris Newell, leading board member of the Payforit Working Group, to ask him how Payforit v4 is developing, and where in particular opportunities lie for...
View ArticleAnnouncement: New Payforit Summit to further grow Payforit
As we all know Payforit is growing in popularity with consumers and as we see revenues increase, an increasing number of merchants are adopting the Payment mechanic. To support further growth we are...
View ArticleDentons: Freemium apps under investigation by the OFT
There has been a great deal of recent press coverage about children running up considerable bills on “freemium” gaming apps – those that are free to download but then offer in-app purchasing. One...
View ArticleFrom the Chairman – April 2013
Dear AIME colleagues, Apps continue to dominate the headlines, though this time it’s because the OFT has launched a full on review of apps that offer in-app purchases. The OFT will look to resolve who...
View ArticleFrom the Chairman – June 2013
Dear AIME Colleagues, Recent PhonepayPlus (Pp+) adjudications regarding misleading marketing practices by affiliates has firmly placed the responsibility of how a customer arrives at a service with the...
View ArticleApp Voting to the Masses: Q&A with Tectonic’s Andy Shaw
This month, the Exchange blog is joined by Tectonic CEO and co-founder Andy Shaw who talks to us about his most recent project which bought App voting interactivity to a massive Eurovision song contest...
View ArticleTaylor Wessing: Making apps pay
Here, we welcome AIME members Taylor Wessing to the Exchange blog, as we hear from Technology associate Neil Hawley on the different ways to earn revenue from apps and the legal issues which underpin...
View ArticleUpdate on Facebook Credits
Authored by Marcus Kern, Strategic Technology Advisor, Velti Following up from my previous blog post last year reporting on the changes being made to payments on Facebook, more information has now...
View ArticleFrom the Chairman – July
Dear AIME Colleagues, This month has been an exciting 4 weeks for AIME and we now enter into a busy period of events and meetings. The inaugural Payforit Summit on the 26th June was well attended and...
View ArticleQ&A with new members, SLA Mobile
We are pleased to welcome SLA Mobile to AIME membership and to the Exchange blog, being joined today by Ashley Loughrey, SLA Mobile’s Brand & Marketing Communications Manager, who answers our...
View ArticleQ&A with Matt Charles: Grabyo and the power of social media video sharing
This month, the Exchange blog is joined by Matt Charles of Showcaster and Grabyo, who’ll be answering our questions on the recent launch of Grabyo; an exciting new way to share TV clips through social...
View ArticlePayforit Summit Roundup
Main Sponsors: AIME’s first annual conference and the inaugural Payforit Summit was held last week at the British Academy building in Central London, a highly anticipated event as tickets sold out...
View ArticleGuest Post: Are hackers the new rockstars?
By Richard Kastelein To many out there, a hacker brings up images of some basement-dwelling, pimply geek who gets off on trying to hack the Pentagon or MI5… or even worse, messes with ordinary peoples’...
View ArticleEurope threatens an end to TV voting, Charitable Donations and £1/4 billion...
By David Ashman, Director of Industry Affairs, AIME At the same time that many European leaders are tentatively celebrating the first signs of economic recovery, a redraft to the EU Payment Services...
View ArticleFrom the Chairman – September
Dear AIME Colleagues, It’s true; the holidays are officially over and it is back to business for the Industry. While the warm weather might be heading over the horizon, the long list of initiatives and...
View Article5Qs on XFactor Interactive App Voting with Tectonic Interactive
This month the Exchange blog welcomes back Andy Shaw, CEO of Tectonic Interactive, who answers our questions on the latest developments at Tectonic and discusses a recent success which has bought...
View ArticleBusting the Affiliate Marketing Issues – World Telemedia 2013
By Rory Maguire, Managing Director, AIME True to the 21st century civilisation that Europeans have developed over the past 100 years or so, a good lynching party has to start with a healthy debate....
View ArticleState of the Nation – from World Telemedia 2013
By David Ashman, Director of Industry Affairs, AIME There’s no denying the Premium Rate Services (PRS) market has had a difficult year. Unlike previous economic blips, the sector has not been recession...
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