Flattr brings social micropayments to DailyMotion
One of the more innovative approaches in the plethora of efforts to persuade more people to pay for more content online is “social micropayment” firm Flattr.
Acting something like an online tip jar, Flattr reverses the usual payment process by givi...
Google quietly shutters One Pass, its Apple Newsstand competitor
Fourteen months ago, to some fanfare, Google launched One Pass – its way to help publishers charge for digital content on the web, mobile and tablets.
Coming just a day after Apple announced plans for a 30 per cent tax on all app subscriptions, Goog...
Angry Birds maker heads into space
This week’s launch of Angry Birds Space has propelled the mobile game’s Finnish developer, Rovio, into the stratosphere, instantly topping app store download charts around the world.
But whereas the original Angry Birds was a viral hit, notching u...
Minecraft makers Mojang notch up $80m revenues
Although Angry Birds, by Rovio of Finland, is the best-known videogame to come out of Scandinavia, it has a close rival in Sweden’s Minecraft - a game Sean Parker loved so much he flew all its developers to London for a party.
BBC to expand in paid digital video fray
Never let it be said that the UK entertainment industry is failing to embrace the digital world. The last few months have seen a rush of huge new entrants to the online TV and film market, starting with Tesco’s acquisition of Blinkbox and swiftly fol...
Spotify to launch in Germany this week
Spotify is to open its doors in Germany this week in the digital music service’s biggest launch since coming to the US last year.
It is the latest example of a digital music firm growing its global footprint as record labels become increasingly bulli...
First impressions of Apple’s new iPad
The new iPad unveiled by Apple chief Tim Cook is not the iPad 3, nor the iPad HD, though it is in spirit both of those. Apple has decided to further distance itself from the specifications-battle that has typified the …Continue reading: "First i...
