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Google Set To Relaunch OnePass, Halting French Papers’ Kiosk

Jan 31, 2012 9:07 AM

paidContent understands Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is set to make some big first-anniversary upgrades to its OnePass paid content system in the next few weeks, designed to increase slow take-up among publishers.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, France

ITV Picks Its ‘Oyster Card’ For Online Programme Payments

Jan 30, 2012 6:34 AM

Telegraph.co.uk reports the UK’s main commercial free-to-air TV broadcaster has delayed a programme under which it wants to charge online viewers for some content. But that’s not quite the case.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Companies, ITV

The Times Plans Social Sharing Upgrade, Real-Time iPad News

Jan 18, 2012 7:54 AM

News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Companies, News Corp., News International

French Papers Buddy With Google For Kiosk Payments, Product Development

Nov 9, 2011 12:52 PM

The combined digital kiosk of eight French newspapers is adopting Google’s OnePass to facilitate all its customer payments beside iOS.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Companies, Google, Countries, Europe, France

M&A Round-Up: Zaypay, Wallaby, 49Games, JigoCity Get Snapped Up

Sep 13, 2011 5:07 AM

Brief news on several acquisitions from companies looking to expand in payment provision, Lat America, gaming and the daily deals space…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Marketing, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media

Boku Now Powers Carrier Billing For Nearly All Of France

Aug 25, 2011 7:40 AM

Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data networks, but to have a hand in how people are using them to consume goods and services…

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Posted In: Apps, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Mobile, Social Media, Avatars, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, Google, Android, Vodafone, boku, bouygues, bouygues telecom, sfr

BBCWW Selling Top Gear Episodes With Facebook Credits

Aug 23, 2011 7:03 AM

BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p. The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-demand app for Facebook that will allow users of the website to rent a limited number of Top Gear episodes using Facebook Credits.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, BBC, BBC Worldwide, Facebook

Axel Springer Thanks iPad For 134,140 Daily Digital Customers

Aug 3, 2011 8:34 AM

German news publisher Axel Springer, whose own paid consumer content initiative launched before News Corp.‘s, has reported what it says are some promising figures…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Countries, Europe, Germany, axel springer

Facebook Credits Will Fuel TV Reality Show Votes

Jul 1, 2011 5:29 AM

Imagine a future in which Facebook, because it’s amassed a massive network of people engaging with entertainment brands, becomes the payment platform of choice for those interactions.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Companies, Facebook

A Google Paid Content System For Publishers May Be Coming By Year-End

Jun 17, 2010 5:20 PM

Updated: Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had hinted for nearly a year now that it was working on building some sort of paid content system for publishers, is reportedly set to launch such a system by year-end. According to a report in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google is now reaching…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Online News, Companies, Google

Just Three Weeks Old, SeeSaw Picks Its Payment Platform

Mar 3, 2010 6:48 AM

We knew SeeSaw would soon charge for, as well as give away, streaming shows when it launched last month. Now a couple more details… It’s picked online payment facilitator Neovia to manage the process via the Netbanx merchant gateway.

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Kangaroo

Guest Voices
Why Publishers Should Treat iPad With Optimism - And Caution

Feb 1, 2010 11:34 AM

Adrian Drury is a principal analyst at consulting and research firm Ovum, covering media, broadcast and telecom… Media need a miracle in 2010, and many of the assembled crowd at Yerba Buena Cultural Center last Wednesday were hoping Steve Jobs would deliver one. What they heard amounted to a strong…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Features, Guest Voices, Companies, Apple, iPad

Proposals For Newspaper Publishers Include Google Micropay

Sep 9, 2009 7:31 PM

In June, the Newspaper Association of America went on a “paid content” info hunt, reminiscent of those fact-finding missions that Congress likes so much. In the end, 11 companies, among them Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)  and IBM, took part in the in-depth look at various ways to literally…

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Posted In: Advertising, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, Google, google checkout, naa

FT Bosses Launch PR Offensive For Paid-Content Model

Aug 4, 2009 4:28 PM

Not content with its position as the only UK newspaper to successfully monetise its online content to at least some of its audience, executives from Financial Times have been busy telling the world that charging for news does work and that it’s a big mistake for other newspapers to think…

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Posted In: E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, Pearson, Financial Times, FT.com

Pirate Bay Audio Reax: Elbow’s Manager, We7 CEO, Ajax Scott On Digital Music

Jun 30, 2009 1:03 PM

Unlikely as it may seem, Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory wants to buy The Pirate Bay for SEK60 million (£4.7 million). At the MusExpo Europe ‘09 conference in London on Tuesday, I held the mic in front of some digital music industry figures. Here are the audio clips... Listen!

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