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- IRex's Hamilton Details Plans For Publishers; NewspaperDirect, News Stand, Storefronts
- 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 subscriptions to U.S. e-readers. It’s also irked publishers with a 70-30 rev share in the retailer’s favor and by retaining control of customer relationships, sending them scurrying...
- External links 2009-10-19
- 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
- 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. Profiling firm Trovus has been hired for the task, hoping to add to FT.com’s 600 corporate subscriptions.Trovus is monitoring the IP address of frequent readers to find...
- External links 2009-08-20
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CNN Wire Launches A La Carte Store For Text Reports
- If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched for newspapers and online, is already tinkering with its business model a few months after its launch: it has launched a text-only online store, at CNNWireStore.com,...
- External links 2009-09-16
- PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of UK Readers Would Pay For Online News
- If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. Exclusive research commissioned by paidContent:UK from Harris Interactive shows that most readers would run a mile. As the chart below shows, 74 percent say they’ll look for a free site while only 5...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Online Stock Photo Consolidation: Shutterstock Buys BigStockPhoto
- Shutterstock is buying BigStockPhoto, another stock photo site, as it looks to introduce new payment methods. BigStockPhoto lets users purchase individual photos by buying “credits,” while Shutterstock only offers subscriptions. Both sites let photographers upload photos. Shutterstock is keeping BigStockPhoto as an independent site. As CNET points out, the...
- External links 2009-09-23
- 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
- WSJ's McLeod: Charging For Mobile Was 'No Brainer'
- 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 McLeod, the president of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, says, “to us, it’s a no brainer.” That’s why the company’s surveys of its...
- External links 2009-09-25
- 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
- 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 funding from Pittsburgh Equity Partners. ShowClix is not disclosing how much it raised, but an SEC filing indicates the company brought in $570,000 of an $850,000 round. In the...
- External links 2009-08-20
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast
- 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: NWS). chairman and CEO was interviewed by some of his own newsies, including a lengthy video session with Sky News political editor David...
- External links 2009-11-09
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