FT.com gets 25% of readers from mobile

Twenty-five percent  of traffic to FT.com now comes from mobile, while smartphones and tablets also account for an impressive 15 percent of new subscriptions to FT.com, reports Doug Drinkwater of TabTimes.com Drinkwater writes, “In a recent interview with TabTimes, FT’s managing director Rob Grimshaw said that HTML5 is inching ever closer to winning the war […]

The dumbing down of biz journalism

Martin Sosnoff writes on Forbes.com about what he calls the decline of quality financial journalism. Sosnoff writes, “There were no other stories of market significance in Section 5.  Commentary on Apple’s iPhone 5 failed to take its story to the next level:  How does Apple build a repetitive business of size from its apps and […]

European biz execs prefer Twitter to biz news websites

More European business executives are spending their days on Twitter than the ft.com, Bloomberg.com and other business websites, according to new research. John Reynolds of MediaWeek writes, “The research, seen exclusively by Media Week, from Ipsos Media shows that 20% of top European businessmen, including chief executives and finance directors, are spending more time on […]

FT unveils new How to Spend It website

The Financial Times’ luxury lifestyle magazine How To Spend It unveiled Tuesday a new look to its website, howtospendit.com, with enhanced speed and design. In addition to the searchable content of nearly 100 issues of the magazine, the revamped site will have more daily postings, including news, blogs, columns and interviews, curated by the magazine’s expert editors […]

Fox Biz Network succeeding by outfoxing CNBC

Jeff Reeves, the editor at InvestorPlace.com, writes that Fox Business Network is succeeding by providing an alternative to CNBC. Reeves writes, “Consider that Neil Cavuto has been on the ball for months when it comes to politics — most glaringly covering primary races while competitors at CNBC were airing infomercials. The crusty newshound in me […]

FT names new editor of Investors Chronicle and FT Money

The Financial Times has appointed John Hughman editor of Investors Chronicle, effective immediately. Investors Chronicle, the FT’s 150-year-old publication, is the authoritative source of fund and share tips, analysis and independent commentary to help private investors make money. “During his tenure, John has been instrumental in Investors Chronicle’s award-winning coverage and growing its digital offering, […]

The FT’s mobile strategy

Stephen Pinches, group head emerging technologies at the Financial Times, talks about its approach to mobile applications.

Business book of the year finalists named

The 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award inc­l­udes an array of titles charting the strengths and weaknesses of the American corporate, economic and financial system. William Silber’s forthcoming biography of form­er Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker sits alongside Walter Isaacson’s life of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. The stories […]

How social media is changing biz journalism

Rob Grimshaw of the Financial Times writes for The Economist about the growing influence of social media in today’s business journalism. Grimshaw writes, “At the Financial Times, we recognized early on that the continued success of our business depended on our ability to adapt to changing reader habits. Our response to audience fragmentation was to […]

FT’s digital subs pass print on global basis

The Financial Times‘s results for the first half of 2012 show that more people than ever  are paying for its content, with digital subscriptions exceeding daily print circulation for the first time. The FT’s digital readership continues to grow strongly, with FT.com  subscriptions up 31 percent year on year to over 300,000 and registered users  increasing 29 percent to […]