The emergence of mobile applications (apps) that utilize sharing economy concepts has revolutionized multiple industries, including transportation, accommodation, healthcare, and other sectors. With the nature of massive data collection and sharing policies, these platforms create serious...

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutrition transition from traditional diets to high-energy, processed foods, increasing non-communicable disease risks. Digitalization of food systems plays a significant role in shaping this transition. This paper investigates the...

Platforms may give preferential treatment to their own products in search results. Whether and how to regulate this self-preferencing behavior is an intensely debated antitrust issue. This paper identifies self-preferencing and quantifies its equilibrium welfare effects in Apple App Store. I...

Customers who have financial products (e.g., bank accounts, loans, credit cards and mortgages) are unlikely to change to another provider or change the terms of the product within the same provider (i.e., to "switch"). Significant monetary gains can be made by switching, but switching rates tend...

Agriculture subsidy programs increase participation of rural households in food security and nutrition improvement in Malawi. Digital technologies e.g. mobile application (App) and biometrical identification, electronic database have been integrated in implementation of Affordable inputs program...

Mobile banking applications (apps) have become crucial in maintaining financial services accessibility during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study leverages the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to examine Malaysian millennials' behavioral intentions toward mobile banking...

Purpose: More consumers are using mobile applications (apps) to shop for apparel, specifically young adult males. As these young adult males increase their presence on mobile shopping apps, they are becoming the focus of mobile application retailers who historically have not served this target...

The Study reviews the current state of wireless charging technologies for mobile phones and similar portable consumer electronics compared to the state depicted by the Predecessor Study from 2021, with the following assumptions: - Qi has predominance on the mobile phone market; - Alternative...

Customers who have financial products (e.g., bank accounts, loans, credit cards and mortgages) are unlikely to change to another provider or change the terms of the product within the same provider (i.e., to "switch"). Significant monetary gains can be made by switching, but switching rates tend...

Purpose - This paper aims to prove the following hypothesis Problem Statement: HYPOTHESIS (1) User Experience collection of mobile applications can be done using the Crowdsourcing mechanism; (2) User Experience collection of mobile applications are influenced by the mindset of Crowdmembers,...

Entry by rival app stores on the two currently available mobile operating systems is an exciting potential benefit of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple and Google will need to share the technical specifications of their interfaces with developers and offer them the same...

Purpose: This study aims to identify which determinants are responsible for impact‑ ing the user experience of three peer-to-peer (P2P) payment services in the Spanish market. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of all online reviews (n=16,048) pub‑ lished in Google Play of three paytech...

The study aimed to determine the main factors that predicted users' intention to continue using mobile food delivery apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. The moderating role of user experience was also explored. Data were obtained from 411 users of mobile food delivery apps in South Africa, using...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obliges data controllers to inform users about data processing practices. Long criticised for inefficiency, privacy policies face a substantive shift with the recent introduction of privacy labels by the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store....

Purpose: This research delves into the user experiences associated with ten mobile banking applications in Indonesia. The study aims to highlight the technological innovations that drive user satisfaction, pinpoint areas requiring enhancement, and offer foresight into the evolving landscape of...

This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 19,235 publications on Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) from 2015 to 2023, underlining its critical role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 3 (Good Health and...

This article discusses how we can locate and understand infrastructural power in mobile infrastructures for datafication through dissecting third-party tracking via so-called software development kits (SDKs). As key material components of mobile infrastructures, SDKs enable app functionality,...

By expanding the theory of planned behavior with Structural Equation Modeling, the objective of the study is to investigate consumer behaviors in the purchasing of fresh food through fresh-food apps and cold chain logistics services usage in Shanghai and Beijing, China. The results showed that...

Information and communication technology (ICT) can boost existing socio-economic inequalities if the former is socially exclusive. Longstanding barriers prevent minoritized populations from accessing ICT, thus leading to a vicious circle between digital divide and poor development. The digital...

We use a novel dataset of online advertiser performance and product sales to quantify the medium-term economic effects of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Policy (ATT). We find that ATT significantly degraded the ability by Facebook advertisers to target advertisements based on its off-platform...