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.
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward Their Best Customers?
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 world was finally willing to...
Pearson To Sell FTSE Stake For £450 Million
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.
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.
Hearst’s Carey: We Will Have One Million Paying Digital Subscribers In 2012
On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in 2012,...
Economist CEO Sees Tablets Unleashing ‘Leanback 2.0′
Extracts from Roy Greenslade’s interview with Economist Group CEO Andrew Rashbass, who says tablet publishing is more akin to print than web.
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.
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.
