Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Zuora, the on-demand billing service for on-demand companies, is turning 1 year old. Last week, the company announced 100 product improvements with its 2.0 version and said that it had attracted 100 customers in its first year. Why all the attention to this startup? I think what’s cool about Zuora is that it is the first on-demand infrastructure company delivering its product as an on-demand service.
The buzz in the market over the past few days has been about whether or not Verizon will eat AT&T’s lunch in regard to the iPhone. Apple is reported to be talking to Verizon about allowing it to carry an Apple-made phone in the U.S. That could spell the end of AT&T’s exclusive dibs on the iPhone when its Apple deal expires, possibly next year.
Other site search solutions may have looked like diminutive Davids when they first appeared next to Goliaths Google and Yahoo, but many of the smaller tools offer special functionality the giants don’t have. Like the big guys, however, smaller solution providers know that prospective buyers are attracted by the word “free.”
A discussion about open source technology on the tech forum site run by Virgina-based
OdioWorks is pitting the defense of a First Amendment right — namely, freedom of speech — against enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the tech industry’s legal guiding light for the past decade.
Perhaps not content with successful sales of its own electronic reading device, Amazon on Monday added another chapter to its e-book strategy with the purchase of Portland, Ore.-based Lexcycle, the makers of Stanza, a reading application downloadable onto iPhones and iPod touches. In announcing the acquisition, Lexcycle commented that it sees a bright future for e-reader and e-book innovation.