Within three years of formation, the company came up with the concept of a subscription service.
Income is generated through advertising and sponsorship deals, while a subscription service is being considered.
He is thinking about setting up a subscription service, where high-paying members would have early access to leaks.
According to MIT, more than 70GB of data were downloaded from JStor, a subscription service for academic journals.
Imagine a payment system that offered a subscription service or brewing equipment rentals.
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First of all, there is a subscription service for learning and productivity tools.
Customers loved it, margins were eye-popping, and as a subscription service MarketWatch delivered the Holy Grail of business: recurring revenue.
The legacy LACE business model was and remains a subscription service providing Financial Strength ratings for primarily American financial institutions.
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Manpacks is a subscription service where men can pay to have new underwear, shirts and socks delivered regularly for a few.
Netflix said it would provide a subscription service in the UK offering unlimited TV shows and movie streaming over the internet.
Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida speculated that in the future, the company might use a subscription service not unlike cable TV.
Red Hat has made it to a billion my selling a subscription service that provides a stable, supported, distribution of the Linux operating system.
Rosetta Stone TOTALe Online is a subscription service that offers unlimited Web and app access to all levels of lessons in a specific language.
In June, the company announced it was buying a small software company, GeCAD Software, with the aim of selling virus protection as a subscription service.
Will Apple release a subscription service for music and video streaming?
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It's also offering a subscription service to go along with them, which will stream realtime sound from microphones set up in the mountains of Takayama and Morotsuka.
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Had we remained a subscription service, we would have had a much harder time signing up a critical mass of restaurants and GrubHub likely would have failed.
Burrows reports that last year Jobs tried to convince the studios to let him set up a subscription service that would have allowed subscribers to watch shows a la carte.
While some, including Piper-Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, still expect Apple to release some kind of updated TV offering at some point, the chances that it will include a subscription service seem greatly and distinctly less likely now.
Why offer a subscription service?
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Spotify, which began in Europe and has been around longer as a subscription service, has said for years that it is upgrading its songs from its older standard of 160kbs, but an awful lot of them have still been coming across at the lower bitrate.
While Microsoft might not best Apple at every point of audio ecosystem -- and the glaring lack of an iPod Touch or iPhone competitor makes much of this irrelevant for many people -- Apple's refusal to build a subscription service makes Zune Pass one of our few choices for a well-integrated player and subscription software combo.
MyFDB offers free content for visitors to browse, a subscription service for users to develop their own profiles and online portfolios, and a cloud image service that allows magazines and brands to manage the workflow of image assets with their partners and marketing channels as well as to distribute those images through the MyFDB Asset Network.
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Meanwhile Amazon has launched a paid subscription service which many see as a rival to Netflix, although to what extent this proves to be true is not necessarily clear.
It is the first time Miramax titles have become available through a digital subscription service.
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More importantly, these telecom companies offer services to individual subscribers whereas Netflix is more like a household subscription service.
Apple has considered adopting new business models for delivering video, including a subscription TV service, media executives said last year.
The a la carte rental plan follows an abandoned effort to create a subscription television service, said two of the people.
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At CMJ, a week-long industry showcase focused on the business of beats, many insiders think a subscription style service could be the answer.
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