Paywall providers to NBC Universal and News Corp to merge
by Jasper Jackson from Technology | The Guardian on (#H2EF)
Piano Media and Tinypass to create business serving more than 1,200 media companies wishing to charge for access
Paywall providers Piano Media and Tinypass are merging to create a business serving more than 1,200 media companies including NBC Universal, Time Inc and News Corp.
The merger marks a further consolidation of the market for helping media companies get their users to pay for content online. Piano, originally founded in Slovakia, acquired US company Press+ last Autumn in a deal reportedly worth $45m (29m) to create the world's largest provider of paywalls.
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