Dropbox, Spotify, Gmail, Skype: Are We In A Subscription Bubble?
techcrunch.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: Editor’s note: Ezra Galston is a VC at I2A Fund, a young entrepreneur at Foundation Capital, a Kauffman Fellows Finalist and a second-year MBA student at Chicago Booth. He focuses on early-stage technology investments. Follow him on Twitter @EzraMoGee. It seems like nearly every tech business has sought to employ a subscription model for its services. While that makes sense from a business perspective, I wanted to investigate any effects of subscription fatigue on consumer commerce – questions such as whether a service like Dropbox might be on the chopping block if consumers’ wallets are stretched. Or whether Gmail plugins like Boomerang could sustain a subscription model.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Business Models, Monetization, PaaS, Pricing, SaaS
StrikeIron's IronCloud powers the DataFlux Marketplace
www.prweb.com
on 05/09/2012
Excerpt: StrikeIron, the cloud leader in data quality and data communications, today announced a licensing agreement with DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions. Through the agreement, DataFlux has licensed StrikeIron’s cloud data delivery platform, IronCloud, to deliver and manage high-quality customer data validation solutions as DataFlux Marketplace, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) set of products that helps businesses validate mailing and email addresses within existing on-premises and cloud-based applications. IronCloud, recently named the 2012 cloud award infrastructure winner, is the most mature and robust data-as-a-service (DaaS) platform available in the industry.... read the full post.
Tags: Big, Data, DataFlux, SaaS, StrikeIron
Excerpt: StrikeIron, the cloud leader in data quality and data communications, today announced a licensing agreement with DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions. Through the agreement, DataFlux has licensed StrikeIron’s cloud data delivery platform, IronCloud, to deliver and manage high-quality customer data validation solutions as DataFlux Marketplace, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) set of products that helps businesses validate mailing and email addresses within existing on-premises and cloud-based applications. IronCloud, recently named the 2012 cloud award infrastructure winner, is the most mature and robust data-as-a-service (DaaS) platform available in the industry.... read the full post.
Tags: Big, Data, DataFlux, SaaS, StrikeIron
