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- Report: Facebook To Launch A Lala-Powered Music Gifting Service
- It seems like the rumor mill about Facebook launching a music platform starts churning violently right around this time every year. Last October, Facebook was in talks with the four majors for some kind of non-equity, non-licensed song-sharing deal. In October 2007, the company was supposedly launching a MySpace-like...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Digital Chocolate Adds Virtual Goods To Games Mix With NanoStars Project
- Mobile and social entertainment company Digital Chocolate wants in on the virtual goods boom—so it’s launching NanoStars, a new game project that revolves around a set of over 100 virtual “characters” that players can buy and use in multiple games. The characters, which will be named after various pop...
- External links 2009-09-24
- 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 to work with the startup on “freemium” models and that the collective number of monthly uniques for those sites passes 100 million. In the end, all that really matters is...
- External links 2009-09-14
- Proposals For Newspaper Publishers Include Google Micropay
- In June, the Newspaper Association of America went on a “paid content” info hunt, reminiscent of those fact-finding missions that Congress likes so much. In the end, 11 companies, among them Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and IBM, took part in the in-depth look at various ways to...
- External links 2009-09-09
- 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 a new investor; it recently signed a deal to distribute Riot Games’ forthcoming multi-player online game, League of Legends, in China. Benchmark and FirstMark backed the L.A.-based startup...
- External links 2009-09-09
- 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” financing that came in prior to its acquisition of Twofish; the money came from a mix of previous backers and new investors—though Live Gamer declined to give...
- External links 2009-08-27
- 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 money from virtual goods. Live Gamer has acquired rival virtual payments and analytics firm Twofish, in a combination cash and stock deal. Full financials weren’t...
- External links 2009-08-24
- 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 to the usual local blackout rules. Bloomberg’s Rich Jaroslovsky included that tidbit in the latest takeout on digital flag bearer...
- External links 2009-08-20
- 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 is adding a non-profit service that already has a launch partner: the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR. The non-profit service announced this morning (these are intentional...
- External links 2009-08-20
- 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 virtual goods business. Jambool’s ‘Social Gold’ platform lets developers create their own white-labeled virtual currency systems. It powers virtual payment systems within big name apps...
- External links 2009-08-18
- 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, executives from Financial Times have been busy telling the world that charging for news does work and that it's a big mistake for other newspapers to...
- External links 2009-08-04
- One Size Doesn't Fit All: Consumers Want Choice On Pricing, Delivery Of Content
- 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 know how to make paid content work, they know they want to try. A recent report from the American Press Institute underscores this trend: The API reports...
- External links 2009-11-16
- Can Virtual Currencies Help Bridge The Gap Between Free And 'Paid' Content?
- Virtual goods and micro-transactions have been driving the billion-dollar online games industry across Asia for years. And deals like EA’s $400 million buyout of social gamer Playfish, and Activision’s new virtual pets addition to World of Warcraft, show that virtual currencies have now evolved into a viable business model...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Activision Delivers Solid Q3, But Faces Challenges Moving Forward
- 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 revenue excluding charges dipped by one percent to $703 million. But it beat met analysts non-GAAP EPS expectations, and at $755 million, its non-GAAP revs...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Nickelodeon Picks PlaySpan As Its Virtual Goods Payment Platform
- Online games and payments platform PlaySpan has signed on another large partner: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Virtual Worlds Group. PlaySpan’s technology will power virtual transactions for Neopets, the beta Petpet Park, and the two worlds Nick currently has in development, World of Neopia and Monkey World. Kids (and their...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Mobile Payment System Zong Adds Credit Card Billing
- Mobile payment platform Zong hopes to attract more clients and boost its user numbers by enabling payment by credit and debit cards. In the rapidly growing mobile payment space, Palo Alto-based Zong is looking to set itself apart by being the first to allow card payments via mobile—online businesses...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Amazon Continues Attack on Apple's iTunes By Jumping Into Mobile Payments
- 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 PayPal. The announcement also provides a hint as to where the Seattle-based company is headed next: mobile content and applications. Up until now, Amazon has only experimented...
- External links 2009-10-05
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- PayPal Introduces New Micropayments Pricing to Increase the Convenience of Purchasing Digital Goods
- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- PayPal, the global online payment service, today announced new micropayments processing fees for digital goods. The new pricing will provide merchants with a more affordable way to process payments for low-cost digital content such as video games, online greeting cards, news articles, mobile phone content and...
- Research articles 2005-08-31
- Yankee group report names iPIN as micropayment provider of choice for wireless carriers; Mobile Commerce Infrastructure report lists iPIN as the first company carriers should consider for micropayments.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 June 2003-iPIN: Yankee group report names iPIN as micropayment provider of choice for wireless carriers; Mobile Commerce Infrastructure report lists iPIN as the first company carriers should consider for micropaymentsC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06102003 BELMONT, Calif. -- iPIN, the...
- Research articles 2003-06-10
- Media Roundup: Wall Street Journal to Use Micropayments, Metro Sells U.S. Papers and More
- In Today’s Roundup: Wall Street Journal to use micropayments, Metro to sell U.S. Papers, Select publishers to show TV commercials between Web Pages, Star-Ledger extends cuts and San Diego Union-Tribune lays off 192. by Sean Blanda
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
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