Arrington on Twittergate: “I wouldn’t do things any differently”
As a reporter who blogs — and who has been competing against Michael Arrington for the past couple of years — I’ve been helplessly fascinated by the Twittergate debate of the last couple of weeks. It is a perfect storm of technology news and journalism ethics in the digital age, pitting widely popular microblog service [...]
Project Fair Bid Raises $4.5 Million For Stealth Auction Platform
Project Fair Bid, a stealth startup that is creating a Swoopo-like Auction platform, has raised $4.5 million in funding, according to a SEC filing. The funding was raised from the Mayfield Fund, First Round Capital, and Foundation Capital, with Raj Kapoor, Charles Moldow and Josh Kopelman joining the board of directors.
Details on Project Fair [...]
“World’s Sexiest App”? Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Now Clutch Themselves On The iPhone.
The print magazine business isn’t doing so hot right now, but Sports Illustrated might just have found a new business model: selling an iPhone app featuring models from its 2009 Swimsuit Issue. Although the Swimsuit issue came out in February, the app just hit the iTunes store today (iTunes link). Marketed as the [...]
The New Pirate Bay: Fees Subsidized By Your Computing Power [The Pirate Bay]
The Pirate Bay may not actually be dead, but major changes are on their way. Details on the new management’s legit business model have surfaced, and it will involve subsidizing your monthly fees in exchange for computing power. Gaming Factory’s Chief Executive Officer Hans Pandeya describes the changes thusly: Rosso describes the new Pirate [...]
Foursquare Shows The Business Potential Of Location-Based Services
There’s a reason Google is working at a rapid pace to bring location services to the forefront of many of its products (Maps, Search, Latitude, etc) — new potential business models. Sure, location also happens to be useful to many consumers, and that’s undoubtedly why Google loves it even more. Like AdSense, it’s a mixing [...]
Do you need a loyalty program?
Loyalty problems tend not to be on the forefront of entrepreneurs’ minds. But an aggressive retention marketing program, even in early stages of a company’s history, can pay big dividends.
The relevance of such programs depends on your business model. Your customer value can be the deciding factor in how useful these programs can be [...]
Will Twitter really make $1.54 billion in 2013?
Twitter has a business model after all — and one that it’s betting may go from bringing in $400,000 this quarter to $1.54 billion in four years, according to documents leaked earlier today.
Projections that distant are not particularly useful, but they give a hint of Twitter’s ambitions. The company has been mum so far on how [...]
Outspark raises $8.3 million for casual online role-playing games
Showing that the game sector is still vibrant for venture investment, Outspark has raised $8.3 million in a third round of funding for its casual online role-playing games.
The San Francisco company will use the money to expand on a global basis. Outspark has 5.4 million unique monthly visitors who play its five “free to play [...]
Microsoft To Launch Streaming Music Service, Could Hit 360 [Microsoft]
Microsoft have announced that they’re working on a streaming music service, similar to Europe’s Spotify, which should be ready to go by the end of this month. We’re interested because it could hit the Xbox 360. Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN, told The Telegraph that the Microsoft service would be similar to Spotify, “but [...]
Is Free The Future Of Enterprise Software? Yes And No.
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net, founded in 2005 with the goal of helping people and businesses easily access and share information from anywhere. Box.net is now used by millions of individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide.
There’s now a lot of buzz debating the business model of “Free” with [...]
