It only looks like MediaNews is following the New York Times decision to go metered next year. But the planning has been in the works for a… Read more »
Adrian Drury is a principal analyst at consulting and research firm Ovum, covering media, broadcast and telecom…
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Rixty — which offers an online payment system designed for people who don’t have creditcards — has raised $1.24 million in a funding round… Read more »
San Francisco-based Boku has raised a sizable round of funding totaling $25 million to build a mobile-payments company that they believe can… Read more »
Donations by text message have now exceeded $22 million to the Red Cross alone for the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
Update: Tallies are… Read more »
Remove the barriers to giving, and people will give. That seems to be the lesson many charities are learning in the wake of the earthquake i… Read more »
Donations are pouring into the Red Cross by text message to support the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The campaign, which lets you donate… Read more »
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital… Read more »
Mobile and social entertainment company Digital Chocolate has launched its newest game, MMA Pro Fighter, on Facebook — and it’s teaming up… Read more »
T-Mobile is rolling out carrier-based billing for the Android Market, as promised. Customers are getting the option in waves, and all users… Read more »
Frankly, I am surprised that it took this long. But today, we read in the Wall Street Journal that two major publishers have decided to pull… Read more »
Let the good times roll… in Belgium. Online payments business Clear2Pay has bagged a big Read more »
“Social” continues to be the game industry’s buzzword. Big companies like EA have bought their way into social gaming, *Microsoft* just adde… Read more »
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pulled back the curtain on his new startup today called Square, a mobile payments company.
Square allows an… Read more »
While Journalism Online claimed earlier this fall that it had collected letters of intent from more than 1,000 media outlets, it has been un… Read more »
While Offerpal struggles with its image-problem, and Zynga and Facebook deal with a class-action lawsuit, a new offer-based ad network is ge… Read more »
More consumers used their mobile phone to make purchases and compare prices on Black Friday than ever before, according to data reviewed by… Read more »
Having bagged second round funding of £5 million in September from Frog Capital and others, UK e-commerce platform eCommera has now raised… Read more »
Mobile payments provider Boku is gaining traction, seemingly evolving into the chosen platform for social and casual gaming companies that w… Read more »
When Steve Case’s internet payment startup Revolution Money raised a $42 million round last April from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Cit… Read more »
In the past year, we’ve seen a palpable shift from newspaper and magazine publishers with regard to paid content–while they still don’t kno… Read more »
Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch was in Sydney for the latest News Corp earnings call but that wasn’t the only talking he did down under. The News Corp (NYSE:… Read more »
Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) swung to a profit for Q3, after posting a $108 million loss for the same quarter last year. The game publisher’s rev… Read more »
Online games and payments platform PlaySpan has signed on another large partner: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Virtual Worlds Group. PlaySpan’… Read more »
Mobile payment platform Zong hopes to attract more clients and boost its user numbers by enabling payment with credit and debit cards. In th… Read more »
Mobile commerce and payments firm MPower Mobile is in the process of closing a $5 million second round of funding. The bulk of the new money… Read more »
Updated: Facebook has confirmed the news, with details about additional upgrades to its gifting platform. In addition to Lala-powered songs,… Read more »
For the last couple of years, Amazon’s Kindle has owned the market — a very small one, to be sure — when it comes to delivering subscripti… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has expanded its iPhone e-commerce platform to free apps, essentially, cracking the market for micro-transactions on the… Read more »
Jim Ryan may now be the chief strategy and marketing officer of Bellevue, Wash.-based Motricity, which provides storefront, portal and brows… Read more »
Giiv, a mobile gifting startup that hasn’t yet officially launched, has raised $2.3 million worth of a $2.8 million first round of funding,… Read more »
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is making a significant move into mobile today that puts it in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes and eBay’s Pay… Read more »
While others stress over whether to try paywalls and fees, the Wall Street Journal does the Murdoch March to its own drummer. Or, as Gordon… Read more »
Mobile and social entertainment company Digital Chocolate wants in on the virtual goods boom — so it’s launching NanoStars, a new game proj… Read more »
Shutterstock is buying BigStockPhoto, another stock photo site, as it looks to introduce new payment methods. No financial details were rele… Read more »
Starbucks is testing an iPhone app in Seattle and the Bay Area that links to a customer’s registered account — and includes a bar code that… Read more »
If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. Exclusive research commissioned by paidContent:… Read more »
Not much differentiates one hot new social gaming startup from another. Sure they have different games — and maybe even slightly different… Read more »
If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched… Read more »
