"Is 2012 the year for India's internet?" asks the BBC News. It's estimated that as many as 121 million Indians are logged onto the internet. Even though this is a relatively small proportion of the country's 1.2 billion population, Internet use is predicted to grow and open the way for mobile, tablet and social networks diffusion.

In an interview on challenges.fr the president of French news site Médiapart Edwy Plenel talks about the success of the website after three years of its launch: more than €5m in revenue, up 66% year-on-year, net profit of €500,000 and 58,000 subscriptions which generate 95% of revenue. This success proves the effectiveness of the paid model, Plenel said.

After The New York Times raised its daily price to $2.50, Jeff Jarvis on the Huffington Post reflects on the increase wonders if, while today's Times is clearly a better product than the penny press a century ago, he wonders if it is worth 10x as much.

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