FT CEO Explains Price Hike; Wants Net-like Relationships With Print Subs
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GE To Decide Soon On DJ Bid; Joint Bid With Pearson Possible With Bancrofts Retaining Minority
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NWS-DJ: Pearson Looking For Possible Partner To Challenge News Corp. Bid; Still A ‘Longshot’: WSJ
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WSJ, FT Up Print Prices; Sign Of Business Information Confidence
Indicating confidence readers will still pay for accurate business information despite the availability of the internet, Wall Street Journal… Read more »
UK Online Upgrades: Sky; FT.com and Reuters Websites
By Rafat Ali
The season of website and service upgrades in UK:
– Sky says it will do a massive overhaul of its digital offer. The new portal, possibly l… Read more »
Speculation Rife on FT's Potential Sale
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Lots of speculation in the UK market earlier today about Financial Times and its parent Pearson finally being put up for sale, though the or… Read more »
FT Editor Mulls ‘High Stakes’ Of The Digital Evolution
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The Financial Times’ transition to a multimedia operation was a painful but necessary process, said editor Lionel Barber. The move cost 50 j… Read more »
FT.com To Drop Subscription? Pearson CEO Ponders
By Rafat Ali
I mentioned FT’s earnings this morning…in a follow up story, Guardian reports that parent company Pearson’s CEO Marjorie Scardino admitted… Read more »
Earnings: FT In $9.3 Million Profits; FT.com Has 86K Subs
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The Financial Times has made a $9.34 million profit in the first half of the year, reversing a $3.74 million loss in the first half last yea… Read more »
FT To Axe 50 As Online-Print Merger Happens
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(reg. req.) The Financial Times plans to cut 10% (about 50) of its 500-strong editorial staff as it merges its online and newsprint operatio… Read more »
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FT Adds Layers To Online Reading
FT recently announced it was changing the distribution pattern for third-party distribution by adding 12 hours to what is now a current 12 h… Read more »
FT Delays Stories To Third Parties By 24 Hours; FT.com Defensive Move
By Rafat Ali
Which is probably a smart strategy in the longer term: syndication revenues through services like Factiva and LexisNexis can only grow so mu… Read more »
Shakeup At FT; New CEO of FT.com
By Rafat Ali
High time this happened: Financial Times owner Pearson has done a management shakeup at the newspaper. Its finance director Rona Fairhead wi… Read more »
Industry Moves: Montgomery Promoted To Editor Of FT.com
James Montgomery moves from U.S. news editor to editor of FT.com, succeeding Simon Targett, who had only been on the job since last summer.… Read more »
FT.com Conducts an Open-House
By Rafat Ali
FT.com is taking cues from rival WSJ.com and opening up its subscription site for a week…along with it, the site will also launch new regu… Read more »
Earnings: FT.com’s Ad Revs Up 27 Percent in 2005
By Rafat Ali
Pearson has announced a 27% increase in ad revenues for its online operation FT.com as part of strong preliminary 2005 financial results for… Read more »
FT.com Valued At About $350 Million
By Rafat Ali
There are suitors aplenty for Financial Times, if the parent company bites: Terry Smith, head of UK moneybroking giant Collins Stewart Tulle… Read more »
Outgoing FT Editor Says No Future In Print
By Rafat Ali
Outgoing Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers, who resigned last week in a cloud of controversy and diffferences with Pearson CEO Marjorie S… Read more »
Earnings: FT.com’s Ad Revenues Up 20 Percent
By Rafat Ali
Not much detail about FT.com in parent Pearson’s first half 2005 earnings report released today. Advertising revenues at FT.com, which has n… Read more »
Industry Moves: New Editors For FT.com; Digital Media Services
The Financial Times has changed its digital line-up, appointing Simon Targett as editor of FT.com and Chrystia Freeland to the new role of e… Read more »
FT.com's Desktop Alerts; Linking Mystery Solved
Netimperative: FT.com is to launch free desktop news alerts, allowing subscribers to receive updates from up to 13 news categories. The laun… Read more »
FT Starts New search Strategy To drive Newspaper And Site
The Financial Times has hired a search-marketing agency to promote both the newspaper and FT.com through natural and paid-for search listing… Read more »
FT Not For Sale; FT.com’s Role
Pearson’s outgoing Chairman Dennis Stevenson has laid any doubts to rest: the company isn’t considering selling its flagship Financial Times… Read more »
FT.com To Launch Online Ad Campaign
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FT.com is launching its first online ad campaign (in UK) in two years as it drives the business towards the 100,000 subscriber mark.
More th… Read more »
FT Teams With Motorola on Mobiles
By Rafat Ali
Financial Times is wrapping up some good deals for mobile distribution: it has teamed up with Motorola on mobile content…The new service e… Read more »
FT Losses Heavy, But Online’s Fine
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The pink paper’s bleeding, but FT.com site turned profitable this year…It started charging subscribers in 2002, and now has nearly 80,000… Read more »
FT.com Launches Bahavioral Targeting
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Like rival WSJ.com, it is going with Revenue Science…Eight segments have been identified for advertisers: Business Education, Institutiona… Read more »
Zach Leonard Leaves FT; Joins Wi-Fi Wholesaler
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Zach Leonard, the former head of FT.com and recently FT’s EMEA managing director, has left the company and joined UK’s Wi-Fi wholesaler The… Read more »
Ft.com Subscribers Increase
By Rafat Ali
FT.com’s paying subscribers increased from 57,000 in June 2003 to 76,000 in June 2004…that’s all the info Pearson released about Ft.com in… Read more »
FT.com Subscribers Increase, Even As Parent Losses Expand
By Rafat Ali
Pearson’s decision to start charging for its FT.com website in 2002 continued to pay off, with subscriber levels up by around 50% in the six… Read more »
Oracle To Drive FT Mobile News
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The Financial Times is going on an overdrive on mobile content: it has picked Oracle to build a new delivery platform. The publisher will ai… Read more »
AOL’s Revenues Decline 7%; Ad Revs Down 40 Percent
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America Online’s Q4 revenues declined 7%. Operating income before depreciation and amortization improved to $301 million from a loss of $33.… Read more »
FT.com Content on Blackberry
By Rafat Ali
FT.com’s content will now be pushed onto Blackberrys…the site’s using Outercurve’s InfoEdge delivery service. Read more »
FT.com Ties Up With Nokia
By Rafat Ali
FT.com, following up on its recent deal with Vodafone, has now tied up with Nokia to bring FT content to users of Nokia’s new 6600 device.… Read more »
FT seals Vodafone deal
By Rafat Ali
The Financial Times is to offer both free and paid-for content to mobile phone users with Vodafone…The standard deal will give WAP users a… Read more »
FT.com Pins Hopes On Paid-For Lex Live
By Rafat Ali
As I reported here first (sorta), FT.com is looking to introduce premium newsletters, including regular market updates from an expanded Lex… Read more »
FT Launches ‘Keyword’ News Alerts
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FT.com will this week launch a news alerts service to help drive new subscriptions, backed by a nationwide marketing campaign.
The tailored… Read more »
FT Expands Distribution On Yahoo Finance
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This goes slightly counter to the trend, but FT.com has expanded its relationship with Yahoo Finance…it will provide more stories, mainly… Read more »
FT’s Asia Launch
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The Financial Times launched a new edition in Asia, in print and online, today. “FT.com will also feature Asia Watch — a new online analysi… Read more »
The Ad Game Online: WSJ.com vs FT.com
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