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Piano raises $88M for analytics, subscription and personalization tools for publishers, adds LinkedIn as investor
As publishers face up to whatever might be their next existential crisis — there are so many options from which to choose, including Substack stealing all their writers; or Clubhouse pulling in
You’ll never believe what this email thread says about the ad-funded ‘open’ web
Among a number of claims on U.K. adtech lobby group MOW’s website is the canonical biggie that “Advertising funds the open web.” This coalition of “marketers,” whose memb
Crunch Report | Lyft Raises $1 Billion
Lyft raises $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy acquires August Home, MongoDB up 34% on stock market debut and Facebook is testing paywalls for Instant Articles. All
Substack helps writers turn blogs and newsletters into subscription businesses
Substack is looking to help writers make money in a way that CEO Chris Best described as “diametrically opposed to the broader Internet news model.” In other words, while large digital med
Piano’s new Composer makes it easy for publishers to create a targeted paywall experience
Publisher tools and paywall company Piano is announcing a new tool that could give publishers more freedom to experiment with paywalls and other business models. The company was created last year fro
Home services marketplace Angie’s List to drop paywall for a freemium model
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
Music App Songza Goes Ad-Free With A New Paid Service, “Club Songza” For $0.99 Per Week
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.songza.com">Songza</a>, the music streaming and recommendation service that has picked up some 4.8 million monthly active users with its free, ad-based service, is
News Corp. Backs Down On Anti-Google Stance, Plans Searchable Article Previews, Keeps Paywall Intact
Rupert Murdoch's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newscorp.com/">News Corp.</a> is planning once again to let stories from its paywalled UK newspaper <a target="_blank" href="http://thetimes.co.uk"
Murdoch Says Separated News Corp Publishing Biz Will ‘Push Even Harder’ On Charging For Content
Old media, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/178781/alexia-tsotsis-i-like-the-emotional-part-of-the-news/">some think</a>, is headed for the graveyard, and they'll
LA Times Jumps On The Paywall Bandwagon
The Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fiw-times-20120224,0,1301270.story">reports </a>that The Los Angeles Times will be adopting a paywall (they prefer the term "membershi
Pew Shows 65% Of People Pay For Digital Content; Mostly Music, Software, And Mobile Apps
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The Pew Internet organization put out results of a <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Paying-for-Content/