Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.

(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based its independence from iTunes.

This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper…

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is to sell its 50% stake in the FTSE International group to the London Stock Exchange for £450 million ($700 million) in cash.

With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.

Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before and after the working day.

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 chart shows…

The Financial Times is closing Tilt, its experimental pure-play online news service for emerging-markets finance professionals, 10 months after launch.

What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions discussed at a Financial Times panel in NYC last night. “There are lots of things that merge between media businesses and 2.0 commerce,” said Susan Lyne, chairman of Gilt…

The Financial Times may yet go on making hundreds of thousands of dollars through its existing iOS apps, despite having removed them from iTunes Store on Tuesday.

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 the new requirement that in-app subscription payments must go through iTunes Store. The paper’s iPad and iPhone apps have disappeared from iTunes Store. Apple says the…

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 them off to focus more on Education, its real growth engine of the moment? That seems to be the opinion of at least some analysts…

Financial Times chief executive John Ridding tells paidContent that data and mobile will fuel digital publishing in to a 2.0 phase. But he may need to score a victory against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to get there.

iPad and mobile are becoming of increasing importance to The Financial Times, accounting for 22 percent of web traffic and 15 percent of new subscriptions during the first half of this year.

This is far from closure, but it is possibly a step in the right direction. News Corp.‘s CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has issued an apology that will be published as a full-page advertisement in several—but not all—national newspapers this weekend. Pointedly, at least one of the papers is not planning to…

This week, the iPad app world is frantically sorting through some recent changes in its environment. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has quietly altered its app approval policies in a way that will make publishers – in particular, subscription-based publishers like The New York Times – much happier. Specifically, Apple has relaxed…

Anything an iOS app can do, the web can do better, Rob Grimshaw, The Financial Times’ online managing director, told paidContent:UK, after launching a HTML5 tablet and mobile “app” Tuesday ahead of the imminent deadline for publishers to comply with Apple’s revised app terms.

With a few weeks to go before Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) starts taking a 30 percent cut of in-app tablet subscription transactions, The Financial Times, which has been vocal in its opposition, is taking the bold step of putting its eggs in the web basket.