Chart: Comparing The Two Timeses’ Subscriber Growth
News Corp.’s The Times and NYTCo’s The New York Times each introduced online charges in summer 2010 and March 2011 respectively. So how are… Read more »
Card-Counting Robots? Lawsuit Against Full Tilt Poker Seeks $900 Million
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What do flower stores and pet shops have to do with mob-style gambling operations? Quite a bit, according to a new class action suit against… Read more »
News Corp.’s Australian Adds ‘Freemium’ Paywall
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, m… Read more »
The Economist Mistakenly Gave Away Free Digital Subscriptions
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The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them fo… Read more »
Google Wallet Adds New Partners, Coupons, And Loyalty Cards
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) expanded its Google Wallet push Monday, adding new coupon and loyalty card services to its mobile payments product as we… Read more »
News Corp’s Sun Settles On Ads Over Fees, Rejigs Sales Team
News International has finally decided against introducing usage fees for The Sun’s website and is performing a restructure to place more em… Read more »
@ CTIA: In Mobile, The Enterprise Still Takes A Back Seat To Consumers
In a weird way, the lack of enthusiasm around this week’s CTIA Enterprise and Applications show demonstrates just how consumer-driven the mo… Read more »
@ CTIA: Credit-Card Companies See No Limit On Mobile Payments
If it seems like the mobile world has been talking nonstop about the potential for mobile payments all year, it’s because we have been. Ther… Read more »
Paywalls Spread To College Newspapers
Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons–and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing… Read more »
Ericsson Enables In-App Android Payments Via Carrier Bills
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Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is now turning its IPX mobile payment system to facilitate in-app payments for some mobile app types.
That could mean… Read more »
Update: Apple’s Secret Weapon In Its Lodsys Fight? An In-App Payment Patent
We haven’t heard much lately about the Lodsys case against Apple, Android and RIM developers around the world, who have received letters and… Read more »
Confidence In Anti-Fraud Tech Has Square Ready For No-Limit Mobile Payments
As companies like Square and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) pitch themselves as the future of payment processing, they’ll need to remove as many obstac… Read more »
Baltimore Sun Adds Metered Paywall
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The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will co… Read more »
Independent.co.uk To Introduce Metered Charges For Non-UK Readers
The Independent, which celebrated its 25th birthday on Friday, is to launch a paywall for non-UK readers, a top-priced iPad application and… Read more »
Slovakia’s Paid Content System Funded For European Expansion
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The shared paid content platform now underpinning many Slovakian online publishers could roll out elsewhere in Europe after its operator got… Read more »
Major Android Vendors Line Up Behind Isis Mobile Payments Venture
Major names in the mobile industry continue to line up behind mobile-payments strategies, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may be perturbed to see a… Read more »
Why Mobile Payments Might Still Be A Few Years Away In A Few Years
Are mobile payments the new speech recognition technologies? One of the bigger stories in mobile this year has been the growing investment a… Read more »
Europe Probes Banks For E-Payments Monopoly
The European Commission has opened an anti-trust inquiry in to whether a group of banks has conspired to prevent new online payment facilita… Read more »
Google Wallet Is Now Live — But Will Smartphone Owners Use It?
Google Wallet officially launched this week with payment partners Citi and MasterCard on board and three other credit card networks (Visa, D… Read more »
@ pcAds: Hearst Wants Tablet Magazines To Adopt Movie, TV Pricing
New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence… Read more »
M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up
Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-8-11: Apple/Samsung Japan; Microsoft Tablet; Mobile Stats
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) meets with Samsung in court in Japan and requests an injunction on Sm… Read more »
Three More Papers Put Up Paywalls, With Some New Twists
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As more newspapers roll out paywalls, they are looking for new types of content and services to entice readers, and are also turning to new… Read more »
Alipay Buys Up More Of China’s Nascent Online Payments Market
The Chinese online payments provider in which Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) holds an indirect interest is buying itself a greater slice of that growing… Read more »
Financial Times Apps Finally Pulled From iOS
Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it’s now clear The Financial Times and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can’t come to a compromise over… Read more »
Scotland’s Herald-Times Website Will Charge On Metre
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Herald & Times, run by Gannett’s Newsquest, will begin requiring metered payments for its HeraldScotland.com news site by year’s end. Read more »
Boku Now Powers Carrier Billing For Nearly All Of France
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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 »
BBCWW Selling Top Gear Episodes With Facebook Credits
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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 »
Memberly Aims To Help Businesses Sell Physical Goods Via Subscription
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Subscription sites for physical goods are proliferating: Birchbox, which sends monthly boxes of beauty samples to subscribers, just closed… Read more »
The Onion Testing A Metered Paid Model
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Some readers’ eyes may now start to water when they cut a few layers in to The Onion’s website.
“America’s finest news source” has begun re… Read more »
How Publishers Are Dealing With Apple’s In-App Subscription Policies
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Apple’s deadline for app owners to run content subscriptions through iTunes or not at all may have passed on June 30, but compliance is emer… Read more »
Axel Springer Thanks iPad For 134,140 Daily Digital Customers
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German news publisher Axel Springer, whose own paid consumer content initiative launched before News Corp.’s, has reported what it says are… Read more »
Updated: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Latest Paper To Add Paywall
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The announcement is accompanied by a picture of publisher Dennis Francis wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but the news is all business: Honolulu S… Read more »
Changing The Deal: One Company’s Bitter Taste Of Amazon’s Android App Store
The Android Market is something that’s mostly tolerated, as opposed to celebrated, but one group of developers who ventured outside of Googl… Read more »
Some Lee Papers Adopt Metered Model, Even For Print Subscribers
For about the cost of “a trip to Starbucks,” six Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) newspapers in Montana and Wyoming are adopting a metered pay mo… Read more »
Verizon Teams Up With AmEx On Serve Mobile Payments App
Mobile companies and payment processors continue to think about ways to merge their products as smartphones become more widely used, but the… Read more »
Four Major Credit Card Companies Joining Isis Mobile Payments Group
The mobile payments scene got a little more complicated Tuesday, as the big traditional credit card companies joined the Isis mobile payment… Read more »
PayPal Demos Android-Based NFC Mobile Payment System
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 »
Google Revamps Android Market, Adds Books And Movies
One of the more maligned aspects of the Android experience–the Android Market–is getting a fresh look and a few interesting features demon… Read more »
Facebook Credits Will Fuel TV Reality Show Votes
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Imagine a future in which Facebook, because it’s amassed a massive network of people engaging with entertainment brands, becomes the payment… Read more »
