Expensify takes on Freshbooks with invoicing & billing features

Popular expense report startup Expensify has added the ability to invoice and bill clients from inside its cloud-based dashboard.

AT&T’s bills are so confusing they need videos to explain them

How do you know when cell phone bills have gotten too complicated? When companies need to create custom videos to help explain them.

Billtrust collects $25M from Bain Capital

Billtrust announced today that it has raised a $25 million second round of capital from Bain.

550 years of the recurring revenue model (infographic)

So you thought that recurring revenue streams are the sole province of funky web 3.0 services companies? Think again. They've been in existence since just after Gutenberg and the printing press.

Mobile operators lost $58B in 2011 from faulty billing systems

Mobile operators across the globe lost more than $58 billion last year because of deficient billing systems, according to a new study from Juniper Research.

As carriers now support a wider array of devices than ever before, including iPhones, Android …

PayPal aims to bring standards into the dirty world of carrier payments

Carrier payments — the ability to make mobile purchases that get charged directly to your cellular bill — are convenient for consumers, but for many merchants they can be a raw deal thanks to the big revenue bite carriers often …

Verizon plans to charge a ‘convenience fee’ to pay your bill

The country’s largest wireless carrier, Verizon, will begin charging its subscribers a $2 “convenience fee” to pay their bills.

The only way to avoid this fee is to sign up for automatic payments through Verizon’s website, according to a report …

Doxo might end your billing headaches

Until now, Seattle startup Doxo has been pretty secretive about what it’s up to. All it’s revealed is that it’s backed by Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions and Mohr Davidow Ventures, and that it’s been developing a paperless billing product.

Today, …

Life sciences briefing: Monday, Feb. 4, 2008

TODAY’S HEADLINES:

PEAK Surgical takes in $21M for electrosurgical tools (release)
CellGate acquired by Australian cancer biotech ProGen for $2.5M (release)
Traversa raises $2M for RNAi-delivery technologies (release)
RemitDATA, Web-based healthcare-service co., takes in $5.5M (bizjournals.com)
Spinal-implant maker Archus Orthopedics