The Freemium business model has been one of the popular ways to make money from websites. Offering the basic service for free brings loads of new users to the site and providing premium services to members who pay helps in making money off these users. So, what are the most popular premium services on Freemium [...]

Much like the box office, the number of handsets sold in the first week of launch of the handsets very well give us a picture of things to come. Flurry, the popular mobile app analytics company has just released its first week sale figures for Nexus One. How do they compare with the first week [...]

Ever since Rupert Murdoch stirred up the debate on letting people pay to access his company’s online content, people have been discussing the viability of such a model. Are people ready to pay to access online content? Apparently yes; but here’s a caveat : People are more willing to access content created by professionals, than [...]

Cloud computing is being touted as the future of the web. Everything from your Word documents to pictures, music has been moving to the cloud. In Google Apps, the company has a strong competing product to Microsoft Office. So, how big is all of this going to be. Here are some statistics from a Gartner [...]

Things are not looking great for the newspaper industry. Revenues have been falling both online and in print and looks like News Corp was right in taking a stand on charging for content. Here is how the online revenues have fared Online revenues in Q3 2008 : $750 million Online revenues in Q3 2009 : [...]

Only 5% of the people might be ready to pay to read news online. However, a majority of them would be willing to rather pay a yearly subscription once than keep paying every time. Here are the results of a study: Pay per article : 21% Pay per day access : 26% Subscription up to [...]

If your favorite news website (if it were not WSJ) decides to charge money in turn for your access to their news, will you continue to stick to the same website? Rupert Murdoch thinks so. Others don’t. Here are the results from a recent survey: Pay to continue reading : 5% Use its free headlines [...]

More and more casual games sites are looking into advertising as the form of revenue. SHOCKWAVE.COM Traffic to free, ad-suported games: 90 percent Revenue from advertising: 60-65 percent WILDTANGENT Traffic to free, ad-supported games: 98 percent Revenue from advertising: 50 percent

This is only the second time eBay is posting a loss. But the loss has been huge this quarter: $936 million. The loss is seen as a hangover of eBay’s purchase of Skype way back in 2005. Back then, eBay had purchased Skype for $2.6 billion and promised to pay over $1.7 billion in incentive [...]

Sometime back, I had written about how Google and Nokia are trying to penetrate the mobile web market. Back then, I had speculated that Google was trying to bring a SmartAds type technology into the mobile space. Nokia too had acquired Twango which gave enough indications of its willingness to enter the mobile web market. [...]