Today, those of us who are paying attention to the Internet have seen a story about Apple rejecting an app for integrating a third-party payment system. That third-party system is Flattr, a service ...

WILL consumers ever embrace the idea of paying for online content using micropayments? The idea of charging tiny amounts for such content in the hope that it will all add up has been around for as ...

Adblock Plus and Flattr today announced Flattr Plus, a way for users to automatically contribute real money in exchange for what they read, listen to, and watch on the Web. You can sign up for the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the more innovative approaches in the plethora of efforts to persuade more people to pay for more ...

The notion that online content is a "free lunch" is slowly being replaced with, "free lunch, but leave a tip at the end, please." Flattr, the microdonations service that facilitates donations between ...

Flattr, the micro-donation service that's trying to revolutionize the way we pay for content online, has made a move to go mainstream. From May 1 the widget will no longer require that its users pay ...

Adblock Plus has for some time tried to find a way to balance the needs of websites to display money-making ads, with the preferences of visitors who do not want to see such ads. After experimenting ...

In 2010 Peter Sunde, one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, launched a micro-payment venture called Flattr. While people could illegally download music and movies for free on his other venture, Sunde ...

Flattr, the micropayments service launched by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and acquired in April by AdBlock Plus owner Eyeo, has been relaunched, and now lets users pay content creators ...

Flattr is a new startup with an inovative business model, coming out of Sweden. In fact it’s the brainchild of a group of people formerly associated with The [infamous] Pirate Bay, including Peter ...