gross profit

Apple’s Total Gross Profit From the App Store Since Launch: $189 million

John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 23, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

Apple’s iTunes App Store may be the biggest mobile application around, but it’s not much of a revenue generator. The company claims it runs the App Store at “a bit over break-even,” and according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, that is indeed the case.

The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed

Peter Kafka in Media on March 19, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Life before Google for Chad Hurley and Steve Chen: Lots of users, not much revenue, and big costs that got bigger every month. Don’t try this at home!