Adobe could be the next $10 billion software company
Adobe reported its Q2 FY’18 earnings yesterday and the news was quite good. The company announced $2.2 billion in revenue for the quarter up 24 percent year over year. That puts them on an impressive...
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Why IGTV should go premium
It’s been four months since Facebook launched IGTV, with the goal of creating a destination for longer-form Instagram videos. Is it shaping up to be a high-profile flop, or could this be the company’s...
View ArticleTen years after Adobe bought Omniture, the deal comes into clearer focus
Ten years ago this week, Adobe acquired Omniture for $1.8 billion. At the time, Adobe was a software company selling boxed software like Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop to creatives. Many people were...
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WordPress.com sites can now accept subscriptions with new ‘Recurring...
The subscription model is today sustaining a number of businesses, including artists, creators, news publishers, game developers, entertainment providers and more. Now, top publishing platform...
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Xs:code launches subscription platform to monetize open-source projects
Open source is a great source of free tools for developers, but as these projects proliferate, and some gain in popularity, the creators sometimes look for ways to monetize successful ones. The problem...
View ArticleFormer Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein just took the wraps off her app-only...
After teasing the launch of their new startup last year, e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein and her technical co-founder, Amit Aggarwal, are today launching The Yes, a women’s shopping platform that...
View ArticleCIO Cynthia Stoddard explains Adobe’s journey from boxes to the cloud
Up until 2013, Adobe sold its software in cardboard boxes that were distributed mostly by third party vendors. In time, the company realized there were a number of problems with that approach. For...
View ArticleWhisper announces $35M Series B to change hearing aids with AI and...
A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands of dollars on a medical device designed to improve...
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Gravy raises $4.5M for its service that helps subscription businesses recover...
Gravy, a startup helping subscription-based businesses recover failed payments, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding for its specialized combination of technology and a human workspace that...
View ArticleSaaS subscriptions may be short-serving your customers
Adam Riggs Contributor Share on Twitter Adam Riggs is an experienced executive and investor in e-commerce, finance and media companies. Adam was the first president and CFO of Shutterstock from 2005...
View Article3 issues to resolve before switching to a subscription business model
Jess Warrington Contributor Share on Twitter Jess Warrington is general manager, North America, at CloudBlue. In my role at CloudBlue, Fortune 500 companies often approach me for help with solving...
View ArticleAre SaaS Companies Just Misunderstood?
Depending on whom you ask, companies that sell their products on a subscription basis are either companies that are veritable giants of growth, or firms that hide their business models' inherent...
View ArticleEasily Measure The Profitability Of Your Consumer Subscription Business
We are currently witnessing a shift in business models, as many consumer tech companies move from transactional models in favor of subscription-based ones. YouTube is launching an ad-free,...
View ArticleOyster’s Sunset Shows Subscriptions Alone Won’t Address Challenges Of Ad...
Oyster, the “Netflix for books,” made headlines last week when the company announced it was shutting down. News then broke that Oyster’s cofounders and CEO would be joining the Google Play Books team...
View ArticleFacing An Array Of Challenges, Autodesk Shifts To Subscription Pricing
Autodesk has been around the block a few times, having debuted way back in 1982 in the earliest days of the desktop PC. These days, the company is in the midst of a major transition from a licensing...
View ArticleKeith Block talks life at Salesforce and being a Boston sports fan in San...
The day I met Keith Block at the Salesforce World Tour in Boston he was relaxing in a suite at the Hynes Convention Center, a man at ease with his considerable responsibilities as vice chairman,...
View ArticleCloud computing has demanded a kinder, gentler Oracle
Oracle has always had a swagger that reflects the public persona of its bombastic leader, Larry Ellison, but over the last several years, as the company has transitioned to the cloud, it has required a...
View ArticleSubscript wants to rid the world of subscription revenue metric spreadsheets
Subscript develops APIs that grab data from various areas and organizes it so the data is not only easy to find, but provides up-to-date subscription revenue metrics. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
View ArticleWhy there’s no clear winning pricing strategy in B2B SaaS
New data from Maxio indicates that both consumption and subscription pricing have their advantages when it comes to growth, but not at the same time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
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