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Dana Neuts is Subscription Insider's Editorial Director, covering our daily subscription news as well as member features, case studies, premium content, and reports. Dana is also a writer, editor, marketer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in AARP Bulletin, The Seattle Times, Seattle Business, 425 Business, 425 Magazine, South Sound Magazine, Northwest Travel and more. Her specialties include business writing, community news, senior issues, travel and, of course, subscriptions!

Dana E. Neuts

Salesforce Posts ‘Spectacular’ 2016 Q4 and FYE Results

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Last week Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), a customer relationship management technology company, announced its fiscal 2016 fourth quarter and full year financials for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2016. Since then, Wall Street and the media have been abuzz with the SaaS company’s stellar results. Here are a few highlights: Quarterly revenue of $1.81 billion, a 25% increase year-over-year. Subscriptions and support account for $1.68 billion of total quarterly revenue…

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Microsoft is Testing Outlook.com Premium but is Mum on Details

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Microsoft is developing a premium version of Outlook.com email, says ZDNet. Microsoft hasn’t revealed when Microsoft Outlook.com Premium will be released or what it will cost to subscribe, but we presume that it will charge a fee for the premium service. The free version of Outlook.com includes graphical ads, while the ad-free version sells for $19.95 a year. It seems unlikely that a premium version would be free. According to ZDNet, one of the features that…

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The Independent’ Goes Digital-Only After Record-Breaking Month

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The Independent, a British national newspaper, will go digital-only starting in March, reported USA Today. ESI Media, publisher of The Independent, said the newspaper is the first British national newspaper to make the move to digital-only. Rapid digital growth, sustainability and profitability are key factors in the reason to go digital-only, said Evgeny Lebedev, owner of The Independent. “The newspaper industry is changing, and that change is being driven by readers. They’re showing us that the…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for February 26

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Ad-blockers, mobile usage, video content and “no more comments” are all in the subscription news headlines this week. In addition, Scribd announces big changes, Zuckerburg predicts that video will take over other content formats, and the New York Times considers banning ad blocking readers. Other subscription headlines feature STAT, Motor Trend and Tribune Publishing.

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Internet Radio Station Pandora Is For Sale

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Streaming music service Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) is bleeding about $10 million a month, but it’s for sale if you’re looking for a fixer upper, says Fortune. At the end of last year, Pandora had 81.1 million active users*, the largest number of users for a streaming music service. Unfortunately, the company is still losing money. [Note: 3.9 million Pandora users are paid subscribers at $5 a month.] How long can the company last with losses of $10 million a month?

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Facebook Instant Articles Soon to be Available to Publishers Everywhere

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After allowing select publishers to test out Instant Articles, Facebook will open up its publishing platform to publishers all over the world. Starting April 12 at Facebook’s F8 conference, publishers of all sizes with a website and a Facebook page can post content via Instant Articles.”Facebook’s goal is to connect people to the stories, posts, videos or photos that matter most to them. Opening up Instant Articles will allow any publisher to tell great stories, that load quickly, to people all over the world…”

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Scribd to Make Big Changes to Subscription E-book Service in March

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After a tumultuous year in the world of e-book subscription services, last week Scribd announced new changes to its subscription offerings. Instead of an unlimited, all-you-can-read e-book service, subscribers will see some big changes at Scribd, starting in mid-March. Instead of unlimited reading, Scribd subscribers will soon receive Monthly Read credits to allow them to read three e-books and one audiobook every month from Scribd’s library of bestsellers and award winners.

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Google AMP Set to Go Live Feb. 24

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Google AMP, Google’s response to Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News, will go live this Wednesday, February 24, says Ad Age. AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, an open-source project that creates “light-weight webpages” that load as much as 85% more quickly than standard webpages. Google says AMP HTML provides for seamless, simplified publishing. Google describes its vision on its AMP project website: “The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an initiative to improve the mobile web…

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Weekly Subscription News Round-up for February 19

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Scribd drastically reduces its offerings to subscribers, Newsweek brings down its paywall to offer most content for free, and Snapchat considers a subscription option for its ‘Discover’ channels. Other subscription headlines include comScore, Shopify, over-the-top TV viewing and articles featuring Snapchat Opera Apps Club, The Independent and more.

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Motor Trend Launches Subscription Service for Videos On Demand

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Do you love cars, racing and shows like Roadkill, Head 2 Head and Ignition? Then you are probably already watching Motor Trend OnDemand for free on YouTube, along with 3.8 million other fans. Despite some initial confusion, that free YouTube channel will continue, but there is a new option coming to a video screen near you. Motor Trend is about to launch a new subscription service on MotorTrendOnDemand.com, a beta site launched last fall, to give…

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