Journalism Online Says Letters Of Intent Now Cover More 1,000 Media Outlets; Does it Matter?
Journalism Online says companies representing more than 1,000 newspapers, magazines and online media outlets have signed letters of intent t… Read more »
Proposals For Newspaper Publishers Include Google Micropay
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In June, the Newspaper Association of America went on a “paid content” info hunt, reminiscent of those fact-finding missions that Congress l… Read more »
Roamware Acquires M-Commerce Firm Macalla Software
Mobile roaming tech firm Roamware has acquired Macalla Software, an m-commerce and mobile banking provider based in Ireland. Financial terms… Read more »
Online Gamer Riot Games Lands $8 Million Funding, Partners With Tencent
Riot Games has raised $8 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, FirstMark Capital, and Chinese online media company Tencent. Tencent is… Read more »
Live Gamer Raises $2.8 Million In Funding
In-games commerce firm Live Gamer has raised $2.8 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company is calling it “side-car” finan… Read more »
Live Gamer's Buying Spree Continues: Acquires Twofish
More consolidation in the in-game and social media commerce market — and it comes just as social media sites warm up to the idea of making… Read more »
FT.com Profiling IP Numbers To Drive Corporate Subs
FT.com’s subscription sales team is now mining the site’s traffic logs to target companies whose staff visit its free stories most often. Pr… Read more »
MLB.TV 99 Cent Pay Per View On The Way
If all the pieces fall in to place, MLB.TV will start offering pay per view games on iPhone at 99 cents a pop by the end of August (subject… Read more »
Journalism Online Adds Non-Profit Support With IWPR As Launch Partner
Journalism Online hasn’t moved beyond letters of intent on the commercial side but the Steve Brill-Gordon Crovitz-Leo Hindery Jr. enterprise… Read more »
ShowClix Raises A First Round For Online Ticketing
ShowClix, a two-year-old startup trying to challenge Ticketmaster’s dominance of the online ticketing industry, has raised a first round of… Read more »
Jambool Raises $5 Million For Virtual Currency Platform
Virtual currency startup Jambool has raised $5 million in a round of funding — the latest sign that VCs are betting on big growth in the vi… Read more »
$1.5 Million In Checks Deposited Via iPhone App In First Three Days
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USAA, a bank which caters to the military, said that $1.5 million in checks have already been deposited via an iPhone app, which launched ju… Read more »
Atrinsic Buys Social Network E-Commerce Startup ShopIt
Digital content network Atrinsic has purchased ShopIt, a startup which makes it easy for people to buy and sell goods on social networks. Us… Read more »
FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model
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FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple’s iTunes to increase its digital revenues furth… Read more »
French Papers Want Paywalls Too: Le Figaro Plans Paid Content Model
It’s not just UK newspapers that are putting their hopes in online paywalls, their French neighbours are just as keen on charging readers fo… Read more »
FT Bosses Launch PR Offensive For Paid-Content Model
Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executi… Read more »
PlaySpan Amps Up Social-Network Payment Wars
We’ve recently seen an influx of fundings and acquisitions in the online-payment space — particularly related to social gaming — and with… Read more »
Earnings: Moneysupermarket.com Profits Plunge In Recession
Leading financial comparison site Moneysupermarket.com saw its Jan-to-June operating profits fall 89 percent from last year to £1.4 million… Read more »
Inside Word: In Praise Of The Financial Times’ Online Pay Model
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 »
Live Gamer Acquires N-Cash; Brings Korean Micro-Transaction Tech To U.S.
In-game commerce firm Live Gamer has acquired N-Cash, a South Korean tech firm that powers micro-transactions and the virtual economies for… Read more »
PayPal’s New ‘Open’ Payment Platform Gets Microsoft’s Endorsement
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PayPal has spent the last decade trying to standardize (and dominate) the transactional side of e-commerce — and now it’s got its eyes on t… Read more »
Earnings: EBay Says It’s Making Progress On Skype ‘Separation’; Skype Revenue Up 25 Percent
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EBay said Wednesday that its plans to offload Skype continued to progress, although executives notably did not refer to the possibility of a… Read more »
Adknowledge’s Buying Spree Continues: Grabs Up Virtual Currency Firm
Adknowledge has bought out KITN Media, parent company of Super Rewards, a virtual currency platform for social networks and online games. Th… Read more »
Visa Is Testing Mobile Payment Alerts For Cardholder Security
Another take on mobile payments – payment validation. Visa is trialling a system in the UK that will send SMS or email confirmation of card… Read more »
Pirate Bay Audio Reax: Elbow’s Manager, We7 CEO, Ajax Scott On Digital Music
Unlikely as it may seem, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory wants to buy The Pirate Bay for SEK60 million (£4.7 million). At the MusExpo Europe… Read more »
China Bans People From Buying Real Goods With Virtual Currency
First, China introduced a tax on real-world profits generated from the sale of virtual goods; now, China’s Ministry of Commerce has released… Read more »
Mobile Payments Provider Accumulate Raises First Round
Swedish mobile payment and security solutions provider Accumulate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sweden’s Sixth Swedish Na… Read more »
Take-Two Brings NBA Game To China, Launches 2K Online With Tencent
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Take-Two Interactive (NSDQ: TTWO) is ready to make its first big leap into the online gaming arena, and it’s partnering with Chinese interne… Read more »
Payment Platform OneTXT Raises $2 Million; Lucy Hood Joins Board
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Social media payment platform oneTXT, which aims to offer social nets and other entertainment companies an alternative payments processing m… Read more »
Social Net Payer oneTXT Raises $2 Million First Round
oneTXT, a company that provides payment processing on social networks, has raised $2 million in a first-round funding. The round was led by… Read more »
iPhone Developers Roll Out New Apps To Leverage Cut/Paste, Alerts And More
When Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) flips the switch today and makes the new 3.0 software update available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners, developers w… Read more »
Boku Raises $13 Million To Buy Paymo And Mobillcash; Launches Mobile Payment Service
A new mobile payments company is launching, using venture capital to buy its way into a strong market position. Boku has raised $13 million… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Voice on Maps; Zoompass Payments; Publishers Clearing House Site; Music Trends
– Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Map Upgrade: Google said you can now search Google Maps using your voice on Android. It also improved their business… Read more »
Report: One Billion People In Emerging Markets Have Cellphones, But No Bank Accounts
The market for mobile financial services in emerging markets is on track to surge from zero to $5 billion by 2012, according to a study cond… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: China Limits SMS; IPv6 For Verizon; IGoogle; Televisa; 100K Pre; Firethorn
– China Limits SMS To Combat Spam: China is limiting the amount of SMS that a number can send in a bid to combat spam. China Telecom, China… Read more »
@ WWDC: Expectations Were High For Apple, Did It Deliver With The iPhone 3G S?
Since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone two years ago, it has been the undisputed leader in wireless in terms of driving consumers to u… Read more »
DTH Players May Help Mobile Payments Gain Currency
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Direct-to-home service providers, who together have a customer base of over 10 million households, as per industry estimates, are all now of… Read more »
South Korea Offers A Peek At Mobile Future
What would the mobile future look like? The Nytimes.com takes a look at the widespread appeal of all things mobile in South Korea, where the… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Buzzd; MapQuest; ¡Futbol Ya!; CC Payments; Telefònica Ads
– Buzzd BlackBerry: Buzzd has launched a free app on Blackberry AppWorld that aggregates listings from 20 partners into its location-sensit… Read more »
MasterCard’s MoneySend To Go Live This Month In U.S.
MasterCard has announced that its MoneySend service will go live later this month in the U.S., allowing customers to send and receive funds… Read more »
