Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.
How The FT And NYT Aim To Make Paywalls Pay
Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing.
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App
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.
Infographic: Financial Times’ New Mobile Audience
Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before and after the working day.
FT Closing Its Tilt News Site On Missed Revenue Targets
The Financial Times is closing Tilt, its experimental pure-play online news service for emerging-markets finance professionals, 10 months after launch.
Financial Times Enjoys Life Beyond the App Store
Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Jo...
What Publishers Can Learn From Online Retailers
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 Groupe. “We’re all competition for...
Financial Times Apps Finally Pulled From iOS
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 FT took them down...
Interview: Digital’s Second Age Begins Now, FT CEO Says
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.
FT Has Attracted A Third More Digital Subs In The Last Year
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.
@ pC2011: Paywalls And Their Discontents
As the NYTimes.com prepares to launch its metered pay model any day now, the topic of paywalls is something every media organization is exploring. The views on the value of charging readers flew back and forth during an afternoon session at the paidContent 2011 conference, where Robert Andrews, UK Editor, paidContent, moderated a discussion...
@ pC2011 Video: Interview With FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw
Financial Times online MD Rob Grimshaw, who debated on our paidContent 2011 conference panel in New York on Thursday, caught up with me backstage at th...
