The Economist Hits iPad, Targeting A Million Paying Digital Readers
The Economist has got around to releasing an iPad (and iPhone) edition (expected Friday). Built by TigerSpike, which also built The Times’ E… Read more »
FT Gives Its Staff A $480 Bonus To Buy An iPad; CEO’s Memo
The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet.
Newspaper… Read more »
Our Digital Entertainment Digest 11.09.10
Here’s our take on some of the latest news at the intersection of technology and entertainment:
» OK Go: Brace yourself, YouTube. On… Read more »
Mobile Bits: HTC’s Brand; Verizon iPhone; T-Mobile Tab; FT & Amazon Apps
photo: HTC
– 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 »
PayPal Expands Mobile Payments; Pushes Into The Sale Of Digital Goods
photo: PayPal's dev conference
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 »
Pearson Digital: FT Passes 180,000 Digital Subs; Penguin Offsets Print Drop
Digital subscriptions are up more than 50 percent for the Financial Times so far this year, passing the 180,000 mark. The numbers are includ… Read more »
On Mobile & iPad: Sun’s Celebs Sub, Times Unifying Price, FT In Chinese
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 »
Financial Times’ iPad App Brings In £1 Million
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 »
Economist Taking Intelligent Life To U.S. On iPad Only
In a sign that online distribution to tablets can take printed publications in to territories that were previously unreachable, The Economis… Read more »
FT’s Tilt Is A Pure-Play Digital News Site About Emerging Markets
The Financial Times is creating a separate, spin-off website covering emerging global markets.
We first reported about FT Tilt in July, whe… Read more »
The FT Has Bought A New Video Studio
The Financial Times has made what it’s calling a “major investment” in a new online video studio at its Southwark Bridge HQ.
FT.com had alr… Read more »
FT Launching Seventh Niche Paid Site To Reduce Advertising Reliance
The Financial Times is increasingly launching specialist spin-off sites targeted at niche audiences of financial professionals.
The latest… Read more »
One For The Time Capsule?: FT Big-Ups The Print Network
The FT had already clicked “undo” on one Pearson (NYSE: PSO) exec’s recent assertion the paper will scale down its print distribution in the… Read more »
Industry Moves: Channel 4, IPC Media, FT Blog
– Channel 4: Future Media & Technology is being split. Richard Davidson-Houston’s (pictured) new Online team moves to the Creative Division… Read more »
Industry Moves: TheBusinessDesk.com, FT Alphaville Deputy Ed., C4 Online
– FT Alphaville: Tokyo-based reporter Tracy Alloway is becoming deputy editor of the Financial Times’ live analysis community and blog, wor… Read more »
FT Doubles H1 Profit, 250k iPad Downloads
Financial Times Group’s half-year profit more than doubled from £14 million to £30 million, even though profit grew only nine percent.
Pa… Read more »
FT Planning Off-Shoot Digital Finance News Site
Something’s brewing at fttilt.com. Over the weekend, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) folk tweeted the URL to invite applications for what will be a new… Read more »
Industry Moves: Rubicon Paris, Edelman Digital, IPC Social, FT Brussels
– Project Rubicon: On its seemingly neverending hiring spree, the ad network optimiser is adding former DrivePM/Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) adve… Read more »
FT: Actually, We’re Not Planning To Stop Printing
Yesterday, an executive from Financial Times parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO) told us the news publisher was preparing to start “sunsetting” its p… Read more »
Stop The Presses: ‘Sunset’ For Print In Five Years, FT Sees
For years, even many of us in the online realm had countered digital prophesies of “the death of print” with cautious reservation.
But now… Read more »
Industry Moves: IGN UK MD, GMG Board, FT Comment
– IGN UK MD: IGN and GameSpy publisher IGN Entertainment is hiring Electronic Arts’ head of digital game distribution Ian Chambers as its U… Read more »
Video Demo: FT’s iPad App, Free For Now
We got a first look at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app back in April. Now the paper’s released a video demonstrating the app Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN’s Gleeson, AskJeeves Europe, Financial Times
– AskJeeves: The search engine has added Google’s northern and central European marketing analyst Francine Rump as its European operations… Read more »
Debt-Laden Private Buyouts Are Back – Pearson Sells IDC For $3.4 Billion
Pearson (NYSE: PSO) said back in January it wanted to sell Interactive Data Corporation, its financial market data analytics provider. And n… Read more »
Pearson Q1 Sales Up Seven Percent On Group-Wide Growth
photo: Pearson
Q1 revenues are up seven percent on last year to £1.08 billion ($1.65 billion) at Marjorie Scardino’s Pearson (NYSE: PSO), in line with the… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: FT Video, Magnetise, Smartclip Multi, Hulu Dead?
– FT video: The paper has redesigned its video section, now powered by Brightcove, offering targeted video ads, and even working on iPads.… Read more »
Industry Moves: ESPN EMEA, TradeDoubler, FT Weekend
– ESPN: A blow for the sportscaster’s European ambitions – Lynne Frank, who, as EMEA MD, oversaw the acquisitions of Soccernet, Cricinfo an… Read more »
Pearson’s Secret Startups: ‘We Can’t Be Right First Time’
When we first showed a video of Penguin Books’ iPad concepts last month, observers got pretty excited about the possibilities. Now, we are t… Read more »
First Look: FT’s iPad App Is Just Around The Corner
We got a sneak peak at the Financial Times’ forthcoming iPad app during a digital briefing by parent Pearson (NYSE: PSO). It looks, well, a… Read more »
Targeted Advertising: WSJ Courting FT Readers For iPad Switch
Now this is what I call targeted advertising. The Wall Street Journal is so keen on its new iPad app, it’s advertising it to online readers… Read more »
FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users ‘Unlock’ Paywall
The Financial Times’ metered online paywall system is considered one of the more successful models, but a new partnership with location-base… Read more »
Pearson Hopes Silicon Roundabout’s TechHub Will Rub Off On It
photo: Tom T
Some folk used to say the great thing about Europe’s digital startup scene was, unlike Silicon Valley, it’s distributed. So the growing conc… Read more »
Is The Financial Times The Perfect Digital Model?
Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit. How it did so in the wak… Read more »
The Economist’s Paywall Rises A Little Higher
The Economist is once again extending the range of its paywall, Mediaweek reports. Last October, the magazine, which already commands one o… Read more »
Paywalls A Big Hit On Far-Off Future Planets
The Financial Times is sometimes more intelligent in its analysis than it is quick in its breaking news. But it’s not passing up on the latt… Read more »
Up Is Down: FT Free On iPad, Guardian Monthly Mobile Charge?
photo: curiouslee
Suddenly, everything is new again. Underlining uncertainty and lack of consensus regarding mobile-device monetisation strategy, two newspape… Read more »
FT.com Takes Free Articles Away From Unregistered Users, Except Via Search
Now the Financial Times is getting really bullish about its web access model. In another tweak, it’s now ensuring that no free articles are… Read more »
Financial Times Shuts Semantic Search Service Newssift
A year ago, the FT launched “a next generation search tool for business professionals”. Powered by Endeca, it was called Newssift and aimed… Read more »
Beet.tv Roundtable: Economist Chief Says E-Readers Can Save Long-Form Journalism
On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at… Read more »
Video @ paidContent 2010: How To Make Money From Digital News
The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business– so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob G… Read more »
