August 21, 2015

Weekly Subscription News Round-up

Leave a Comment / Business Strategy, Customer Service, Entertainment and Streaming, Mergers and Acquisitions, News, SaaS and Cloud Services, Subscriber Acquisition / Dana E. Neuts

Netflix, Facebook and Microsoft are in the subscription headlines this week, along with audio subscriptions, ad-blockers and social media. Here are those headlines and more, in case you missed them: Report: More than 198 Million People Now Use an Ad-blocker The Next Web Microsoft to Abandon Free 1-Year with New Windows 10 Devices Inferse Facebook is Testing a Twitter-Like News App Subscription Insider Netflix Hikes Membership Fee for New Members in Europe Bidness, etc. Houston Sites Try to Grow in Chronicle’s Long Shadow NetNewsCheck Why Small…

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Spotify Users Outraged by New Privacy Policy

Leave a Comment / Business Strategy, Customer Service, Entertainment and Streaming, News / Dana E. Neuts

Spotify users are outraged at changes to the company’s privacy policy, allowing the streaming music service to access photos, contacts, location, sensor data (about your movements) and other personal data from their mobile devices. The timing of the changes, announced earlier this week, comes on the heels of the disclosure of private data of Ashley Madison users. Wired magazine takes a harsh stance against the policy in its August 20 article “You Can’t Do Squat about…

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