These range from providing online help, to conducting online subscription renewals, to selling upgrades.
Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive online subscription home for Under the Dome.
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It also invested in Babbaco, an online subscription service for offline kids activities.
So I was skeptical when I heard Microsoft is trying to sell its new version of Office as an online subscription.
Just last week, Amazon announced that Prime Instant Video will soon become the exclusive online subscription home for PBS hit Downton Abbey.
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There could be one basic model and one premium model with a bundled game or two, some sort of online subscription, and extra memory.
Of that, about 300, 000 buy the print newspaper, another 300, 000 pay for a full-strength online subscription, and the rest graze occasional articles for free.
While some publications, including The Wall Street Journal, have had online subscription services for years, the industry as a whole has waded gingerly into paid content.
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With an online subscription, you keep paying Microsoft to use the latest version of the software, rather than pay the company once for software that gets outdated over time.
In corporate news, Gannett (GCI) announced better-than-expected revenue and higher profit due to strong television advertising revenue from the Olympics and the presidential election, as well as online subscription revenue.
Online music subscription service Rhapsody has bought Napster from retail chain Best Buy.
Is XM getting ready to roll out some sort of new online music subscription service?
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The complete PDF of this Pediatrics report is currently available online without a subscription.
This moves comes in the wake of Lord of the Rings Online dropping its subscription fee and doubling its revenue in the process.
Rosetta Stone TOTALe Online is a subscription service that offers unlimited Web and app access to all levels of lessons in a specific language.
Netflix Inc. is the largest online movie rental subscription service in the U.S. providing subscribers access to a comprehensive library of more than 18, 000 movie, television and other filmed entertainment titles.
Consumer-facing startups Forerunner has invested in include online pants company Bonobos, subscription razor company Dollar Shave Club, online gifting company Wantful, and online beauty company Birchbox.
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In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
He does not think there is a big audience for subscription music online.
The free mobile app is available with a monthly subscription to the online service.
Despite industry backing for several subscription-based online music services, such as Rhapsody, pressplay and MusicNet, response has been tepid.
Beck might try to create his own cable network, or he might opt for a sort of virtual network consisting of subscription-only online video.
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Besides open source, Eazel is thus also riding the other big trend that is changing the computer industry: software will increasingly be delivered as an online service and on a subscription basis.
That could hurt Microsoft as many companies refashion themselves for the era of "cloud" computing, a Google-backed approach in which software is easily accessed online and sold as a subscription product, rather than installed on companies' computers.
Although it is a latecomer to the music market, Google hopes other bits of its ecosystem will help close the gap with its big rivals and see off a challenge from new, subscription-based online music services such as Spotify.
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Instead of full service subscription fees, Chinese online gaming firms offer more a la carte choices such as access to private chat rooms or avatar costume selection.
The site will face competition from a plethora of subscription services that already exist online.
Amazon can leverage the ensuing increase in Prime service subscription towards an acceleration of online retail market share gains.
Although some are charging subscription fees to players of online games or selling advertising, many of them make most of their money by managing an online economy, complete with virtual goods and a digital currency.
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