Amid the increased speculation surrounding Silicon Valley darling Pinterest's forthcoming revenue model, competitor Fancy, a social photo-clipping service popular among the style-conscious set, has been quietly working on revenue ideas of its own.
Last year the chancellor linked any decision on the matter to forthcoming HM Revenue and Customs figures, which will reveal how much extra tax has been raised in its first year of operation 2010-11.
"This was not a meeting for the president to reveal his confidential discussions with Republicans, but I think we got the sense from the president that since they're not being very forthcoming on the revenue side, concerns about chained CPI may be a little premature," Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif).
His company spent 4 million pounds (6 million U.S. dollars) earlier this year on doubling its digital armory to 148 screens, which will no doubt help capture more revenue from forthcoming 3-D movies like Ice Age 3 or James Cameron's directorial comeback, Avatar.
Shopkick, which has been an early adopter of the technology in the U.S. with its first tests starting in November 2013, is not very forthcoming on how much revenue it has generated from stores that have installed its own-branded version of the devices, which it calls shopBeacons.
He finds it hard to believe that the sort of money needed to compensate for the loss of deforestation revenue would be forthcoming.
Using the £4bn revenue from the forthcoming 4G spectrum auction provides the perfect opportunity to do this, as we and Nesta have called for in our 4Growth report".
Combined, the enterprise side of Foursquare, which includes its Places API customers and its newer Place Insights business, has seen 160percentt growth, says Glueck, though no hard revenue numbers are forthcoming.
The company was less than forthcoming on the topic of future revenues, and also declined to provide the third quarter's daily active user numbers for analysts.
