There is a conventional wisdom in the media industry that micropayments for online content don’t work, but Greg Golebiewski of Znak It says that this isn’t true, and that media companies need to experiment with the model. Read more »
Flattr’s Twitter micropayments venture, where people could leave tips for ‘favorited’ tweets, is over. But as that tie-in got shut down, Flattr enabled tips for YouTube videos. The system also works on Instagram and SoundCloud. Read more »
Content creators no longer need to brandish a Flattr button in order to receive micropayments through the service. All that’s needed is for a Flattr user to ‘like’ their video, tune or tweet. Read more »
UK-based startup ValoBox, which lets publishers sell ebooks by chunks, is launching with a list of publishing partners including O’Reilly in the US and Guardian Books in the UK. Read more »
Consumers may not buy all kinds of web content, but Google is now courting publishers who want to charge with a rebooted version of its micropayments system. Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out a new product, “Google Consumer Surveys,” that lets publishers monetize content through “microsurveys” cr… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will this week try to convince mobile game developers to adopt its improved in-app payments features, as it vies with Ap… Read more »
The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more »
paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the nex… Read more »
Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online vi… Read more »
News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends. Read more »
TinyPass, a startup that aims to streamline the process of charging for content online by using existing platforms like Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS. Read more »
Google Wallet officially launched this week with payment partners Citi and MasterCard on board and three other credit card networks (Visa, D… Read more »
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space… Read more »
Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data network… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
German news publisher Axel Springer, whose own paid consumer content initiative launched before News Corp.’s, has reported what it says are… Read more »
There aren’t a lot of phones on the market which can serve as digital currency, but PayPal demonstrated Wednesday how its users will be able… Read more »
Imagine a future in which Facebook, because it’s amassed a massive network of people engaging with entertainment brands, becomes the payment… Read more »
The early contender for the all-hype-no-action award so far in 2011 has been mobile payments, and while it still won’t be available until la… Read more »
The New York Times’ share of total page views to newspaper websites dropped by its largest margin in more than a year in April, the first fu… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Balsillie takes on marketing at RIM; (NSDQ: RIMM) a new mobile gaming forum breaks grou… Read more »
Calvin Young and his partner Noah Ready-Campbell (pictured at left) left Google (NSDQ: GOOG) two months ago to start Minno, a company dedica… Read more »
It’s still very early days for mobile payments, but with operators, handset makers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) jumping on the NFC bandwagon, the… Read more »
ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit i… Read more »
Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) reported today that Q3 revenues fell again in the third quarter, and will likely continue to slide in the fourth qua… Read more »
Both Sprint (NYSE: S) and AT&T (NYSE: T) have announced two new mobile payments services this week that aren’t anything alike.
Sprint’s mob… Read more »
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is suing micropayments system Kachingle after the service maintained several of the flagship newspaper’s… Read more »
There’s plenty of reasons why replacing your wallet with a cellphone is still a ways off, but now there’s an all new one: regulation. Accord… Read more »
Yet another micro-transactions and payment platform has raised a significant wad of money. This time it is PlaySpan, which has received $18… Read more »
PayPal is set to launch a new product specifically designed to facilitate micropayments — a move that could set it up as a more attractive… Read more »
The New York Times, which is set to put up an online paywall early next year, is now surveying readers to determine how they would react whe… Read more »
GlobalPost, the international news startup which has tried to establish “elite paid memberships” as a significant revenue stream — with onl… Read more »
… Zero. Yes, zero, according to a study by the Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California Annenberg School For… Read more »
Facebook is now telling users “it’s free (and always will be)” when they sign up because some users still think the company could pull a bai… Read more »
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to… Read more »
Updated: Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for pu… Read more »
Mobile payment provider Zong of Palo Alto, Calif. has spun off from its Swiss parent Echovox and has raised $15 million to help pay for its… Read more »
