Pricing
Uber switches out surge for price transparency
No more pop-ups asking you to agree to those murky “2.1x” (or some other “x” amount) surge fares on the Uber app. Soon Uber will just tell you the price of your ride up front.
Uber denies plans to kill surge pricing in the U.S.
Despite the headlines today, Uber says it does not have plans to nix surge pricing in the U.S. It did away with surge in Delhi, India, but has now reinstated the feature there as well. An earlier repo
Snapchat Now Lets Everyone Pay To Design Geofilters
Snapchat is introducing yet another revenue stream today in the form of on-demand geo-filters. As it stands now, Snapchat already has two types of geofilters. Community Geofilters can not include logo
The Weirdness Of The Huawei Watch
As a watch obsessive you can't help but look at the new Huawei Watch and chortle knowingly. Announced a few months ago at MWC, the product lay dormant until now and our poor brothers at Engadget, forc
Feedvisor Raises $6M Series A For Its Repricing Platform
Tel Aviv-based Feedvisor, an algorithmic pricing and business intelligence platform for online retailers, today announced that it has raised a $6 million Series A round led by Australia’s Square
Paid Apps On The Decline: 90% Of iOS Apps Are Free, Up From 80-84% During 2010-2012, Says Flurry
The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.flurry.com/bid/99013/The-History-of-App-Pric
Google Glass Targeting End Of 2013 Consumer Release, With Price Tag Under $1,500
Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have
The iPad Mini Is Not Overpriced, And Sales Numbers Will Prove It
Price was perhaps always the most anticipated feature of the iPad mini, and now it's proving the most controversial. My Twitter stream has been filled with arguments back and forth on the iPad mini's
iPad Mini Pricing Framed In Light Of Apple’s Dedication To Margins
Rumors around the iPad mini are understandably reaching a fever pitch now that an announcement seems likely for Oct. 23, and a new one over the weekend claims to have a breakdown of iPad mini unit pri
App.net Now Has 20,000 Users, Drops Its Price From $50 To $36 Per Year, Introduces A $5 Per Month Plan
<a target="_blank" href="http://join.app.net">App.net</a> just <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.app.net/blog/2012/10/01/app-net-pricing-changes/">announced</a> some price changes to its Twitter-li
Google Maps API Gets Massive Price Cut In The Wake Of Developer Defections
Ever since Google <a target="_blank" href="http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html">introduced</a> limits to how often developers could ping its popul
Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Kindle_2_-_Front.jpg" />Apparently all is not well in e-book land. In an unusual move, publisher Macmillan took out an ad in the Publishe
It's Wii-Day! The Wii is $199
Amazon, a company that sells things, is now selling the Wii for $199 and this price should appear across the board.
Windows 7 pricing released, with limited time discounts
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/windows-7-green.jpg" alt="windows-7-green" title="windows-7-green" />Microsoft has announced the pricing for Windows 7, due to be release
TrueCar shifts into gear
<img src="http://www.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/truecar-logo-215x80.png" width="215" height="80" /><a href="http://truecar.com">TrueCar</a>, an information service <a href="http://
iPhone not selling well in Japan, now available for free
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/iphone_japan-560x746.jpg" />
There are no official statistics available as how well the iPhone sells after Apple <a href="http://www.cru
AT&T iPhone 3G pricing released
AT&T retail stores will be open at 8AM local time on July 11th, so be “iReady!” Existing customers who don’t qualify for an upgrade will have to shell out $399 and $499 for the c
Orange to screw French, tastefully, with FranciPhone
Mac4Ever.com is reporting that the iPhone in France will cost 149 euro for the 8GB and 199 euro for the 16GB. While this is total and absolute bullshit – this $1-to-1 euro scam CE manufacturers
Universal Will Still Supply Apple With Music
The other day, people started getting freaky because Universal Music Group stated it was not renewing its iTunes contract with Apple. Everyone, myself included, took it as a sign that UMG would be pul