the mobile web

Smartphones in Nigeria are now cheaper than ever before. Data from an annual mobile report by Jumia Nigeria, one of the biggest e-commerce sellers in…

For Africa’s biggest economies, 2016 has largely been a year to forget thanks to falling commodity prices and slowing China demand. But economic gloom did…

The internet of things—millions of connected sensors, beacons, and wearables analyzing and mapping microscopic bits of data to make our lives better—is widely assumed to…

Walmart’s head of mobile and digital has joined PepsiCo to lead a big e-commerce push for the maker of Doritos potato chips and Pepsi-Cola. Gibu…

Gustavo Dudamel, the charismatic principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, inspires his supporters with the idea that music is a universal human right. But…

One remarkable finding in Pew Research’s new report on how people in emerging-economy nations access and interact with the internet: social media is hugely popular.…

Despite the general consensus that Twitter is a fun place to find news, make news, and otherwise keep up with the world in real time,…

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi posted a slim profit of 347.48 million yuan ($56.15 million) on 26.58 billion yuan ($4.30 billion) in revenues in 2013. The…

Alibaba and Apple, whose bosses expressed an interest in marrying their respective mobile e-payments platforms last month, have moved from flirting to dating. Alibaba’s Alipay…

This post has been corrected. Xiaomi has broken out of the pack to become China’s biggest smartphone manufacturer, surpassing Samsung and Apple and drawing ahead…

The numbers: The Japanese mobile phone operator’s net income fell by 68%, to 77.6 billion yen ($763 million), in its fiscal first quarter (ending in…

The numbers: Grim, as expected. Samsung Electronics’ second-quarter profit was its worst in two years, as it warned earlier this month. Operating profit plummeted 24.6%…