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FastSpring Hosts WWDC Networking Event

By FastSpring | Published: June 15, 2011

During the week of the WWDC, Apple’s annual developers conference in San Francisco, FastSpring held a private networking event for Mac developers, distributors and marketers at the Grand Hyatt. Over 70 customers, prospects and strategic partners attended the event and had the opportunity to network and conduct business with one another while visiting with the
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FastSpring Integrates Quick License Manager

By FastSpring | Published: April 27, 2011

Quick License Manager, a product of Soraco Technologies, provides a hands-off solution to licensing and protecting your software application. With this integration, FastSpring expands its support of multiple licensing options for software vendors. Quick License Manager is a software protection tool that allows you to protect your software application with secure license keys. How does
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FastSpring Donates to WFP for Japan Relief

By FastSpring | Published: March 22, 2011

FastSpring donated $2,000 today to the World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian relief to Japan to aid in recovery efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11th. The World Food Programme is the United Nations’ frontline agency mandated to combat global hunger, which afflicts one out of every seven people on earth. In
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Some Downsides to the Mac App Store (MAS)

By FastSpring | Published: January 17, 2011

“For developers, however, there are quite a few cons to the Mac App Store, when compared to selling on our own. To rattle off a few of these, there appear to be no trials, no paid upgrades, no access to customer information, no coupons, and no ability to ship updates outside of the store. As
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FastSpring to Attend 2011 CES and Affiliate Summit West

By FastSpring | Published: December 30, 2010

FastSpring has representatives attending both the 2011 International CES (January 6th-9th) as well as the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2011 (January 9th-11th). If you are a client or prospect of FastSpring and will be in Las Vegas, NV for either of these shows, please contact us, we would love to meet with you in person
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Roundup of Recent SpringBoard Updates

By FastSpring | Published: December 22, 2010

It’s been a busy time throughout the Fall and heading into the holiday season at FastSpring. FastSpring stores continue to thrive, and benefit from a number of improvements in the SpringBoard platform that are worth noting. Let’s relate a few of these that appeared in the last two releases. Many of these upgrades are direct
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FastSpring Launches Site Refresh – A Designer’s Perspective

By FastSpring | Published: November 3, 2010

In these accelerating days of web design and development approaches, marked both by new technologies and a renaissance of graphic design and typography, the existing design of a company’s website can slowly but surely become a bit tired. What once was fresh becomes tinged with staleness. This is not necessarily bad news, as it pushes
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FastSpring Rated 2nd Fastest-Growing Company by Pacific Coast Business Times

By FastSpring | Published: October 15, 2010

The Pacific Coast Business Times, a leading publication on entrepreneurial activities and business news along California’s Central Coast, recently published a list of the area’s fastest-growing companies. FastSpring was ranked #2, showing 1,165% revenue growth between 2007 and 2009. Other Central Coast companies features on the list include InTouch Health, Lynda.com, and Patagonia. Entitled “Where
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New Social E-Commerce Feature: Incentivized Reward-Based Promotions via Social Marketing

By FastSpring | Published: October 10, 2010

Social media tools have clearly transformed the way people communicate. Internet users routinely share information, from photos, videos and music to sites and links. Recipients of these user-friendly, ubiquitous, one-click communications often pass them on in turn, extending the reach of a personal recommendation. Imagine if at point of sale this process were not only
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FastSpring Adds Newsletter Signup for Integrated Email Campaign Management

By FastSpring | Published: September 14, 2010

Are you looking to easily add a new customer to your newsletter subscriber list right at the point of sale? FastSpring recently integrated MailChimp email list sign up functionality to do just that. This was a request we were seeing from our customers, and we responded. When your customers order through FastSpring, they have the
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