Neowin News Feed for: Paid

Meta to begin charging for third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp for some users

David Uzondu — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:30:01 +0000

Days after banning third-party chatbots on WhatsApp, Meta has introduced a new pricing model for some developers and users who want to run AI bots on the platform. Read more...

New code added to Instagram suggests paid verification is on the way

Steve Bennett — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:10:01 +0000

Recent updates to Instagram have been found to contain code that suggests it is working on a paid verification system similar to what currently exists on Twitter as a part of its Twitter Blue tier. Read more...

Twitter might let you 'undo' tweets in the future... if you pay for it

Usama Jawad — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 05:04:01 +0000

Twitter has officially confirmed that it is indeed working on "undo tweets" functionality, but a new unconfirmed report suggests that the capability might be tied to a paid subscription service. Read more...

Google now offers paid translation services to localize apps for developers

Usama Jawad — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:24:01 +0000

Google has announced the unveiling of its paid translation service for Android developers, which will allow businesses to have their apps quickly localized by professional translators at a low cost. Read more...

Tinder will let you use an "Undo" feature, at a price

Usama Jawad — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:22:01 +0000

Tinder plans to introduce two useful features in its dating app but are you willing to pay for them? Tinder's CEO gives his opinion on the premium version of the popular dating app. Read more...

EA blames a 'system error' that charged $5 for demos

Daniel Hull — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:34:28 +0000

EA said that a "system error" has caused their demo downloads to be tagged with a small charge. Both FIFA 14 and UFC on Xbox Live were free of charge until recently, but briefly cost $4.99. Read more...

Tweetro+ should arrive in the Microsoft Store this week

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:31:36 +0000

When Tweetro hit the 100,000 user limit imposed by Twitter, there was a possibility that Lazywormapps would have to release a paid-for app as a replacement. Well, that looks like happening this week. Read more...

Time to pay up - News Corp, AP tell search engines

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:22:30 +0000

The heads of two of the worlds largest news outlets, Tom Curley from The Associated Press and Rupert Murdoch from News Corp, each spoke at a conference of 300 media representatives in Beijing this week... Read more...

Google earning 10 million a day from click-through ads

Sam Symons — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:51:35 +0000

According to the lads at Tech Radar, Google's just today announced some rather admirable increases in profits; they've managed to pull in Â£900m in the second quarter of this year alone. Apparently, total revenues for... Read more...

Twitter confirms paid pro accounts coming

Sam Symons — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:29:56 +0000

It's been debated for a while now about whether or not Twitter, a popular social networking service, will begin including a paid pro account for use. Well, as the Wall Street Journal reports, Twitter itself... Read more...

AMD now worth less than it paid for ATi

Tom Warren — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:31:39 +0000

AMD reached its lowest share price for more than four years last week and, as a result, its market value dropped to around US$5 billion – that's $400 million less than it paid for ATI... Read more...

Was Paramount Paid to Drop Blu-ray?

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:00:02 +0000

When Paramount decided to go HD-DVD exclusive, many denizens of the internet were confused at the choice, wondering why they would choose to forego an extra possible source of revenue. Naturally the topic of monetary... Read more...

Burgers paid for by mobile phone

Tom Warren — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:04:13 +0000

Visitors to fast food outlets in Japan will soon be able to pay for their burgers with their mobile phones. Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with McDonalds to offer... Read more...

User paid to uninstall Windows XP

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:14:12 +0000

A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft's Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October,... Read more...

Xbox Live Gold To Get Paid Content First?

Todd Tanner — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:08:12 +0000

As the fuss over Lumines Live! dies down (until they release another booster pack, at least), Microsoft's kicking up another bit of Xbox Live controversy as the fall gaming season kicks into gear by premiering... Read more...

Paid Inclusion Losing Charm?

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:55:03 +0000

Microsoft's and Ask Jeeves announced that they have thrown out paid inclusion links in their search engines. This means that Microsoft's MSN Search will "no longer display links obtained through paid inclusion". Yahoo... Read more...

Google Expands Paid Search

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:09:01 +0000

In an effort to generate more money from advertising on content sites, Google has begun letting any Internet publisher host a search on its website and collect revenue from advertiser-sponsored search listings. The program, AdSense... Read more...

AskJeeves denounces paid inclusion

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:48:04 +0000

AskJeeves will stop accepting advertiser payments for inclusion in its searchable Web database, a move to draw competitive lines between it and Yahoo's new search engine. Jim Lanzone, vice president of product management for Emeryville,... Read more...

MSN Mobile turns into paid service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:44:44 +0000

Thanks SouL2kEEp Dear MSN Mobile Customer: If you are accessing MSN Hotmail on your wireless device, this free service will expire on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. This only affects access... Read more...

Yahoo to launch paid Net video service

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 08 Feb 2003 14:04:00 +0000

Yahoo is close to unveiling details of a paid, subscription-based Internet video service that will compete with a similar product from RealNetworks, according to sources familiar with the plans. Sources said the company is... Read more...

Yahoo passes paid subscriber goal

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:36:12 +0000

Internet media company Yahoo met its goal to end the year with 2 million paying subscribers ahead of schedule in early December, its chief executive said Monday. Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investment conference in... Read more...

Low turnout at Open Source march and little attention paid

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:28:59 +0000

According to a report today on the march supporting the Digital Software Security Act, which would make state agencies in California use open-source software, there was a low turnout and little attention paid to the... Read more...

GeoCities offers new paid services

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:09:42 +0000

Thanks Blasphemous Girl Web portal Yahoo on Monday introduced two paid services for its home page community GeoCities in an ongoing effort to charge for certain features throughout its site. ... Read more...

Morpheus' downfall: Bills weren't paid

Steven Parker — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:14:29 +0000

Thanks Gott for the heads up on this news. StreamCast Networks' delinquent licensing bills were to blame for the blackout of the hugely popular Morpheus file-swapping network last week, according to Dutch company Kazaa BV.... Read more...