Tag: FREEMIUM

Readability is a popular web service which strips articles of all the surrounding ads and clutter and then formats them for easy reading. It's been integrated into several apps and even co-opted for Apple's Safari Reader. And now, Readability is going freemium and offering a paid monthly subscription offering extra features with 70% of the money going to support writers and publishers on the ...

As Spotify -- the popular online music service -- nears profitability in Europe, the situation isn't quite as rosy across the pond. With Spotify's hopes of a 2010 U.S. launch officially dashed, the company is still facing an uphill climb in the States. The sticking point, according to sources cited by The Telegraph, may be financial demands from the U.S. record labels. Concerned that users will ...

Yesterday, Capcom released a new Arcade app for the iPhone featuring ports of it's classic arcade games Street Fighter II, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, 1942, and Commando. For each game you can play in either classic, no holds barred-mode, or a special iPhone tuned mode, which takes into account the difficulty one experiences when using touchscreen only controls. It's all fairly normal, but the kicker ...

Xmarks, the bookmark sync utility that was saved from the brink of destruction by a grassroots pledge drive just a short while ago, is now declaring itself alive and well. A buyer for the service has come forward, and the new owners will carry Xmarks forward under a freemium model, with both paid and free components. There are no details yet about a relaunch date or about what features might be ...

CloudApp has gotten onto the freemium bandwagon. The basic service will be free, while premium features will cost you 4€ (that's about $5.7) each month. Here's what you get for free: uploading of a maximum of 10 files per day, maximum file size of 25MB, and files expire after three months. There are, perhaps surprisingly, no ads in the free version (supposedly they expect the Pro ...

Since pundits started speculating last year that expensive royalty fees for streaming music would kill Pandora, it seems the company has consistently rolled out more creative, money-making features. Now premium subscribers can get access to better stream quality, the new Pandora One desktop app, and an ad-free experience for $36/year. That fee will also get rid of one of the most annoying ...