Nexicon, turning fear into cash

The business concept of Nexicon is quite exceptional. Their monitoring service tracks down IP’s of illegal content distributors on bittorent and other peer-to-peer networks. I suppose that this service towards copyright owners like movie studies and record labels can be bought with a some form of subscription. Once identified Nexicon’s system will automatically send out [...]

Posted on June 29, 2009 in Banking & professional services Read more

A non-advertising based Free business by TruGenetics

TruGenetics understands that the value of genetic profile analysis lies in the combined data of a large group of people. Therefore they decided not to charge their users for individual genome reports in contrast to several competitors. During the first phase of their business, the company will offer this service for free to at least [...]

Posted on June 21, 2009 in Banking & professional services Read more

Timebridge: In-App Commerce to Challenge Advertising

As previously described on In-Game Selling, companies are moving from advertisement based revenue models to in-app commerce or in-product selling. Timebridge.com is an excellent example of the same principle. Timebridge offers a scheduling service enabling people to collaboratively determine when to meet, also on mobile. Their actual revenue model is the resale of online and [...]

Posted on June 7, 2009 in Banking & professional services Read more

What To Learn From Blyk.com: The New Free Mobile Network

Blyk.com is a free mobile network for youngsters. Blyk.com sends you messages from your favourite brands – targeted on your profile – in return for free minutes and text messages. The target age group of 16-24 year is rather hard to reach, which makes it an attractive offer for advertisers. The start-up launched about one [...]

Posted on April 13, 2009 in Banking & professional services Read more