Britain would retain trading links with its European neighbours but would withdraw from treaties and end subscription payments, adopting a similar relationship with the EU to Norway or Switzerland.
But on the back end, subscription billing is as complicated as "designing an entire database," says Zou. "It's not something that a programmer can do because our ambitions were so broad.
The press is being squeezed even in placid places like Botswana and Namibia, where the governments, angry with critical coverage in privately owned newspapers, have stopped advertising in some of the more objectionable publications and have ended subscriptions.
Y-Combinator-backed French language VOD startup Afrostream shuttered, ending subscription services in 24 African and 5 African countries.
In September, Y Combinator-backed French language VOD startup Afrostream shuttered, ending subscription services in 29 countries.
XM Satellite Radio may announce year-end subscription numbers that reflect stronger-than-expected demand for this new product and that encouraging news could send satellite radio shares back into orbit.
XM is expected to release its year-end subscription numbers, "and based on the numbers that are leaking out now, XM has blown away expectations," says analyst Robert Saunders of Eastern Management Group, a consultant firm focused on the communications industry.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney likened the boxed food program to Blue Apron, a high-end subscription food service that delivers ingredients with recipes to people's homes.
But the "churn," a measure of subscribers who end their subscriptions, rose to 1.8%, from 1.7%, and net new subscribers in the quarter fell drastically, to just 82,900, from 1.1 million.
