The FT just launched a rapid-fire news service that consists of 100-250 word stories. The idea is to offer punchy news and analysis — and ensure readers don’t have to stray from the FT for their business news. Read more »
The FT launched a new version of its iPad offering, a move that reinforced the publication’s contrarian web-only mobile strategy, and an FT executive predicts that the problem of collecting mobile payments outside of app stores will soon be solved. Read more »
Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book… Read more »
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2m people across the world on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA)… Read more »
The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based… Read more »
With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android a… Read more »
The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our… Read more »
The Financial Times is closing Tilt, its experimental pure-play online news service for emerging-markets finance professionals, 10 months af… Read more »
What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions… Read more »
The Financial Times may yet go on making hundreds of thousands of dollars through its existing iOS apps, despite having removed them from iT… Read more »
Two months after the deadline for compliance hit, it’s now clear The Financial Times and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can’t come to a compromise over… Read more »
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
Financial Times chief executive John Ridding tells paidContent that data and mobile will fuel digital publishing in to a 2.0 phase. But he m… Read more »
iPad and mobile are becoming of increasing importance to The Financial Times, accounting for 22 percent of web traffic and 15 percent of new… Read more »
With a month to go until publishers must either fall in with Apple’s new in-app purchasing terms or quit iOS in June, The Financial Times is… Read more »
Financial Times online MD Rob Grimshaw, who debated on our paidContent 2011 conference panel in New York on Thursday, caught up with me back… Read more »
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is expl… Read more »
We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry,… Read more »
The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th… Read more »
The Financial Times is on-record as saying its iPad app generated a tenth of its (85,892) new cross-platform digital subscriptions last year… Read more »
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE… Read more »
If you spun off a dozen staff from your news publication to re-think the future of niche business news online, what would it look like? In T… Read more »
Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetis… Read more »
Whether digital news should be free or chargeable; it’s now like sport – you’re apparently either for or against; red vs blue. That’s the un… Read more »
– HTC’s ad campaign pays off: Another story about how HTC has created a brand out of a no-name white-label smartphone maker. The more inter… Read more »
Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer co… Read more »
The Sun has released an iPhone and Android app for its Bizarre-branded entertainment coverage. Costing £1.19 for 30 days and, thereafter, “… Read more »
The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according… Read more »