Image Provided by Shutterstock If you are starting transaction based ecommerce companies you may face a dilemma if the traditional drivers of revenue of the industry do not take place within your service. To address this websites need to make sure that the drivers of their revenue are trackable within the web service – on the grid. MORE >>

Yet their revenues are rumored to around $1B – about 1/30 of what Google’s revenues will be this year. Google has the perfect revenue-generating combination:  people come to the site often, leave quickly, and often have purchasing intent. The revenue gap between sites like Facebook and Google should narrow over time. MORE >>

There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said : “Google has devised a brilliant business model that avoids paying for news gathering yet profits off the search ads sold around that content.&#. The reality is that news is a lousy business. Period. MORE >>

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Google has shown their awareness of this issue by carefully managing the annoyance-factor of ads that are shown during search. You can reach for all the scale of a free service and still make money. Pretty good deal, right? for H. MORE >>

Home About Lightspeed Team jump to navigation Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the app store May 13, 2009 Posted by jeremyliew in apps , iphone. Multiplying this by 25-50m paid apps, that suggests that the cumulative revenue from iphone apps is around $70-$160m. Ashish - May 13, 2009 The revenue does seem low. MORE >>