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Companies making money (how do they do that?)
This very cool interactive infographic (just click on any of the circles) reveals how startup companies monetize their services:
- Beginning in August Adobe will take 9% of revenue from Flash developers (tweet this)
- 30% of iTunes sales goes to Apple (tweet this)
- Android gets a 30% transaction fee for each app sold (tweet this)
- Google Voice is free, but they make money from "call termination" (tweet this)
- Groupon makes money charging 50% of the revenue (tweet this)
- Kickstarter keeps 5% of money raised for successfully-funded projects (tweet this)
- Xbox Live charges users $50 annually for subscriptions to their service (tweet this)
- The majority of Mozilla's revenue comes from royalties paid by search engines (tweet this)
- Rdio makes money by charging $4.99 to $19.99 monthly (tweet this)
- Skype makes money charging $4.99 (or up to 2.3 cents per minute) (tweet this)
- StackOverflow makes money selling banner ads and sponsored results (tweet this)
- StackExchange makes money selling banner ads and sponsored results (tweet this)
- Tumbler generates revenue from paid inclusion and their blog directory (tweet this)
- Twitter makes money offering Promoted Tweets (tweet this)
- Wolfram Alpha makes a bulk of their money licensing their API (tweet this)
- Farmville makes 60 cents out of every dollar selling virtual goods (tweet this)
(Here's a behind-the-scenes look on how this nifty, interactive infographic was created.)
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