News tagged with business models

Small is good in quest to resolve water crisis

Can Peepoo stop the flying toilet? A small Swedish company believes so. At the World Water Forum in Marseille, it is promoting a cheap, smart fix for the world's billion slumdwellers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Groupon fails to turn profit as revenue grows

Daily deals site Groupon on Wednesday issued its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, saying it failed to turn a profit despite revenue nearly tripling from a year earlier.

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cyber-fraud tops $93 billion a year in Latin America

Fraud in online commerce and theft of confidential data, known as phishing, at banks in Latin America together top 93 billion dollars in yearly losses, an IT conference heard Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study confirms food security helps wildlife

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) documents the success of a Wildlife Conservation Society program that uses an innovative business model to improve rural livelihoods w ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Your smartphone: a new frontier for hackers

(AP) -- Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone. Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 8

Battle brewing over control of personal data online

Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and other Internet companies have made billions of dollars tracking people's online movements and using that data to target advertising based on their prediction of what a person might ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Less than 10 percent of fliers use Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi connections in the air may not be the magical service capability that some in the travel world had hoped.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Mind over market: Economist confirms role of psychology in U.S. business cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Public attitude may be as important as public policy when it comes to the economy, according to UC Irvine’s Fabio Milani. A new economic model developed by the assistant professor of economics ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report

Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Google developing payment platform for newspapers: Nieman

Internet giant Google is developing a payment platform for newspapers that would allow them to charge for content online, according to a report on Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

YouTube to offer online movie rentals

YouTube is considering streaming movies for rental, a move that would see the free video-sharing site charging for content for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Twitter co-founders are mum on revenue plans

(AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s co-founders say the rapidly growing online communications company will eventually charge fees for its services, but it's unclear which ones and what will drive revenue.

Technology / Internet

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Skype founders looking to buy back company

The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Conference will offer a sneak peek at future of video games

The video game business has come a long way from the original Atari console or even the original PlayStation of a decade ago.

Technology / Software

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

BlackBerry maker to study options, warns of loss

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion warned Tuesday it could report a loss in the current quarter and said it had hired JP Morgan Securities and RBC Capital Markets to study its strategic options.

Technology / Business

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Business model

A business model is a framework for creating economic, social, and/or other forms of value. The term business model is thus used for a broad range of informal and formal descriptions to represent core aspects of a business, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes and policies.

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