Monthly beauty subscription service Glossybox announces shipping its 2 millionth box and receiving $72.4 million in investment.
Food startup Hello Fresh raises $10 million to take all the effort out of home cooking (although there is still some chopping and heating involved.)
OrderGroove raises $6.7 million to help brands turn their fickle customers into committed partners.
Hungry Globetrotter's subscription boxes of ingredients highlight an international culinary destination each month.
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.
As of today, Google is allowing developers to build free trial periods into their subscription apps.
Social e-commerce site The Fancy now offers a monthly subscription service
Online natural grocery store Door to Door Organics has sowed $2 million in funding.
Culture Kitchen co-founders Abby Sturges and Jennifer Lopez want to share treasured recipes that have been passed down through generations of families. The San Francisco-based startup has turned home-cooking expertise into a viable small business.
Full disclosure: I was enrolled …
Rhapsody has just announced it’s buying Napster’s business in Europe.
Rhapsody’s European expansion begins today with the acquisition of Napster International, Napster’s European subscription music service. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Rhapsody will own and operate the …
In an attempt to further monetize its iOS gaming portfolio, Electronic Arts is releasing a freemium version of the popular real time strategy game Theme Park on iTunes.
Although the game is initially free to play, if you want to …
Big Fish Games has become the first publisher permitted to offer a subscription gaming service on the Apple iPad, Bloomberg reports.
Customers will be asked to pay $6.99 per month in order to access dozens of games, such as Mahjong …
Social networking titan Facebook today unveiled a “subscribe” feature, which adds news feed updates to a user’s profile from other profiles without having to become “friends” on the site.
Any updates a Facebook user posts publicly go into news feeds …
Netflix is planning to expand its online video service into two European countries in the first quarter of 2012, reports Variety.
Top film distributors in Europe stated that Netflix recently closed deals to offer its service in both Spain and …
Amazon today announced that it has acquired LoveFilm, Europe’s leading movie subscription service, for an undisclosed sum, but a figure of around $200 million is being bandied around. Amazon already owned 42 percent of Lovefilm. The LoveFilm service and website …
Zuora, provider of a business-to-business online service for managing subscriptions and billing, announced today it has raised $20 million in its third round of funding to further CEO Tien Tzuo’s vision of what he calls the “subscription economy.”
Zuora basically …
