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Another déjà vu in digital music: Spotify offers discounts to university students, à la Napster 2003
Spotify announced today that university students in the UK who have purchased an NUS Extra Card, will be offered a 50% discount on the price of Spotify Premium — that’s £4.99 on a service for which post-college folks pay £9.99. This sort of “price discrimination of demand” — to use a dismal term from Economics [...]
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Seems the blogoland is officially in a tizzy over the next iPhone. Per protocol, the Apple Store is closed for “restocking,” and a flurry of fuzzy and poached screen shots have appeared in the last week. Quite honestly, as an iPhone owner, I can say that this thing makes other phones just look like toys. [...]
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Cellfire, a platform provider for coupons to your mobile phone, has raised $14 million to date. I have to admit… I don’t get it. You have to download an application to your cellphone. Which makes no sense given (1) SMS would work just fine and (2) most people don’t download apps to their cell phones. [...]
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