Category Archives: Micropayments

By Anika, our Cool Nerd Queen Kachingler – Social Media Marketing Manager, located in Bremen, Germany We proudly present our  Happy Kachingler for November! Name: Bob Sprague Twitter: @yourarlington Homepage: http://www.yourarlington.com Bob is a veteran journalist who loves basketball, Bach and connecting with Arlington, Mass., the town near Boston where he has lived since 1989.Continue Reading

Every week, Kachingle promotes a different category of sites. Recently, we had “web comic” week, because most of our team members are reading several comics on a regular basis, as are many of our users.  As we started to promote this category, we got plenty of feedback both from users who recommended comic sites, asContinue Reading

By Anika, our Cool Nerd Queen Kachingler – Social Media Marketing Manager, located in Bremen, Germany Kachingle establishes its own Social Media culture. For this reason we have several Twitter accounts, from which the most important ones are our English one “Kachingle” and our German one  “kachingle_de”. Cynthia is mainly tweeting for the first one,Continue Reading

By Anika, our Cool Nerd Queen Kachingler – Social Media Marketing Manager, located in Bremen, Germany Today I was reading one of my more often visited blogs. It is a news site about technology. I am using an ad blocker because I am sick of the user generated ads. The site has a method toContinue Reading

Budgeting In a Micropayment World Mint Life, Nick Kennedy on 9/10/2010 This is the second article I’ve seen in the last couple days about this whole new topic in personal finance. Now, the rise of safe financial transactions over the internet has enabled us to be nickel and dimed to death online. There’s even aContinue Reading

Ulrike Lange of MedialDigital gave a well thought out keynote Thursday at the Cologne content web forum, discussing in depth the crossroads she sees for building value (e.g., revenue) around original content. In it she covers Kachingle (Lange’s site sports the Kachingle Medallion), the shortsightedness of many in the traditional media who think paywalls willContinue Reading

We’ve been accumulating payments now for several months, but today we actually paid real money to our first sites! There is a threshold of $50 for a Pay-Out to occur — this is because PayPal imposes a 2% fee ($1) on each masspay transaction going out. And we had to pay about 9% for theContinue Reading

Digital Money Forum March 10/11, 2010 London, UK Yves Huin, our Director Kachingle Europe, will present at The Digital Money Forum. This event, now in its thirteenth year, combines discussion and debate about the future of retail electronic payments. If you would like to meet with Yves while he is in London, please contact himContinue Reading

We are often asked “what is the Kachingle transaction fee”? IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2010: IN EARLY JUNE WE REDUCED THE OVERALL TRANSACTION FEES (KACHINGLE PLUS PAYPAL IN AND PAYPAL OUT) FROM 20% TO 15%. A detailed blog post on this will be written soon.

We just sent the following email to hundreds of eager Kachinglers and Content Sites who were waiting for us to launch!