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Swedish startup Ripe raised a $2 million pre-seed to aid companies with product-led growth.

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Here's another sign of the times: Free tiers are becoming less generous.

Keyboard startup Fleksy has launched a new self-serve SDK to expand its reach for indie developers wanting to add custom keyboard software to their apps. The Barcelona-based mobile keyboard software m

Product-led growth is one of the buzziest topics in the startup world as the market cap of public companies utilizing the growth tactic skyrocketed in recent years. It’s no different in cybersecurit

The merits of launching a free plan should no longer need to be debated. Instead, more companies should be asking: Are we giving enough away?

Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions). But over the course of the last yea

Twilio is hosting its annual Signal conference today and as usual, the company is using the event to launch a host of new products and features. For the most part, especially if you’re a web or

Last year, Dish-owned streaming service Sling TV launched a free tier to its service designed to attract those with lapsed subscriptions to come back and watch. On Roku devices, former customers were

The German startup has raised its first round of venture backing from FitLab, Causeway Media Partners and JAZZ Venture Partners.

While Angie’s List continues to reject acquisition offers, the home services marketplace is taking a big step to boost its online audience, and hopefully the number of people using it to find th

Chat.Center, a project by friend of TechCrunch Keith Teare, has successfully navigated the shoals of freemium and is now steaming steadily through solid growth. Teare announced numbers at DEMO Trac

SlideShare, the LinkedIn-owned site that lets you upload and distribute presentations online, is turning over a new leaf today. The service, which has 60 million users, is going free. In tandem with t

Mobile analytics firm Distimo just released a new report showing how the most successful apps monetize around the world. According to it, the five most potentially lucrative markets for gaming apps ar

Mobile app analytics firm App Annie has put out a retrospective report on app trends in 2013 and there are few interesting tidbits worth flagging for developers. Notably the continued dominance of the

The freemium debate continues to rage on. Some say it’s the future of how business will be run, while others say it’s synonymous with casual games (read: not for hardcore gamers). Now the

Freemium wireless internet startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freedompop.com">FreedomPop</a> has been out to undercut traditional wireless carriers on data plan costs for <a target="_blank" h

The freemium kids' app party that has seen some parents left with hefty bills because of their kids' use of games could be heading for a sticky end -- at least in the U.K. The Office of Fair Trading h

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Jules Maltz is a general partner at IVP. Daniel Barney is a senior associate at IVP.</em> For some, freemium is a business model that sacrifices revenues and forces star

It’s been <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/08/meet-niklas-zennstroms-new-mysterious-free-broadband-venture-freedompop/">nearly a year</a> since a company called FreedomPop announced its inten