Neowin News Feed for: Paying

Instagram boosts monetization using ‘Subscriptions', paywalling feed posts and chats

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:38:01 +0000

Instagram is expanding the “Subscription” monetization platform and adding new features which will allow content creators to post stories, feed posts, and hold chats just for paying subscribers. Read more...

Snapchat Plus is a $3.99/month subscription that does not remove advertisements

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:56:01 +0000

Snapchat Plus is the company's first-ever attempt at monetization outside advertisements. The service will cost $3.99 per month and offer some exclusive features, but subscribers will still get ads. Read more...

Murdoch could remove his sites from Google's index

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18:22 +0000

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has said in an interview with Sky News Australia that newspapers within his empire - including the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal - could block Google searches entirely once they... Read more...

Belkin paying people to post fake reviews

Brad Sams — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:37:33 +0000

Corporations live and die off consumer reviews and when your product isn't getting the remarks you had hoped for what do you do? Well if you are Belkin apparently you pay people, 65... Read more...

MySQL reserves features for paying customers

Jonathan Cremin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:53 +0000

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its namesake database. Officials... Read more...

YouTube starts paying 'select' uploaders

Tom Warren — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:28:22 +0000

Google clip dump YouTube is to trial revenue sharing with normal users by adding some of its favourite uploaders to its partnership programme. YouTube already shares advertising dollars with big commercial content firms who threaten... Read more...

DDoS attacks 'no longer paying off'

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:19:33 +0000

Economics are playing a part in the decline of denial-of-service attacks, according to a Symantec security expert. In the second half of 2006, Symantec noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,... Read more...

Paying for Flaws Pays Off for iDefense

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:08:58 +0000

Internet security specialist iDefense Inc. has released a reverse-engineering tool to the open-source community as part of its controversial strategy of buying the rights to information on security flaws found by underground researchers. The decision... Read more...

Presumed Guilty: Paying for Piracy in Advance?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:35:38 +0000

The entertainment industry continues to cry foul over music and movie piracy. Although some of the furor stems from loss of distribution control by content owners, the chief complaint is far more simple: They're angry... Read more...