Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Buying or renting — that’s not just the big question when it comes to housing. With software, too, customers often have to ...

Licenses and subscriptions are popular pricing models. Learn how licenses and subscriptions work and how to choose a pricing ...

Subscription this, subscription that. Consumers are being nickeled and dimed to death with monthly or yearly subscriptions, but Microsoft has decided not all of its Office users want a subscription, ...

Motive Technologies, which makes AI-powered subscription software for companies to manage their physical operations, grew its revenue by 22% to $327 million in the nine months ended September 30th, ...

On my previous post about the scalability of the "support subscription" business model, Joel Jackson said: "I’m confused Savio...what don’t you understand about a software subscription annuity model?

‘We are, in a sense, restructuring the contracts from perpetual to subscription. That’s why, depending on where you see it, you’ll see a slower growth at the beginning—if any—followed by a more rapid ...

In its ongoing effort to become the torchbearer for paid online programming, RealNetworks on Tuesday unveiled software that allows content producers to charge fees for their online media. The software ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions in January, we’ve been wondering when Microsoft might give up on packaged versions of Office. Now it seems we have our answer. The ...

The software industry is rapidly moving to subscription-based billing, but corporate customers have not warmed up to the model yet, according to a new study. A survey of nearly 400 software companies ...