FT daily audience now up to 2.2 million
The Financial Times now reaches 2.2 million people worldwide on a daily basis, according to the latest Average Daily Global Audience (ADGA) figures announced Friday. The number of people accessing FT.com daily has surpassed 900,000, showing a 36 percent year on year increase in online readers. The FT has also seen a sharp rise in […]
WSJ looking to aggregate news and news judgment
Justin Ellis of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes about how a programmer/reporter at The Wall Street Journal is working on a new news aggregator. Ellis writes, “When Jeremy Singer-Vine was building topheadlin.es, a mobile-ish news aggregator, this was the specific use case he had in mind. ‘For me, I was trying to think: What part […]
Biz news still important despite dropped standalone section
Courtney Sherwood, the business and features editor of The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., writes about the importance of the paper’s business news coverage despite its decision to fold the business section into another printed section of the paper. Sherwood writes, “Since the Business section moved inside the Clark County section, we have looked at the […]
Dow Jones hires Rosenbush for new CIO Journal
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Steve Rosenbush will join The Wall Street Journal as deputy editor of an upcoming new vertical targeting CIOs and other senior business technology executives – to be called CIO Journal and set to launch in the spring. It will be available online as well as through most smartphone devices and an […]
CNBC digital ops set records in December, 2011
CNBC.com had its best December ever in terms of page views. According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 5.7 million unique users last month and achieved a record 304 million page views, an 11 percent increase year-over-year. December marks the end of a record quarter for CNBC.com. The […]
Forbes launches new mobile site
Forbes announce Tuesday the launch of its new mobile site for both IOS and Android devices, with a beta version available for Blackberries. The Forbes mobile site features a new search option that visually displays related people, places and company results from Forbes lists. Search results can be clicked on and expanded in a second […]
Biz reporter trying to replace laptop with tablet for work
Robert Schoenberger, a business reporter with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is experimenting using a Samsung Galaxy Tab for work instead of his normal laptop. Schoenberger writes, “The torture test will come in January when I take this tablet to the North Amrican International Auto Show in Detroit. The event requires me to constantly tweet and […]
FT launches Android application
The Financial Times has launched the beta version of its Android App, available for large screen tablets, including the Samsung 10.1 inch tablet and small screen Android phones. The app is available to download for free from the Android market and is integrated into the FT.com access model whereby, upon registration, users are able to […]
Consumer Reports launches iPad subs, smart phone apps
Laura Hazard Owen of PaidContent.org writes about how Consumer Reports has launched a series of iPad subscriptions and smart phone applications. Owen writes, “The CR iPad subscriptions launch with the January 2012 issue, which goes on sale December 6. Also starting with the January 2012 issue, print subscribers (who pay $29 per year) will have […]
Money launches tablet version
Money magazine has launched on tablets, including Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, NOOK Tablet by Barnes & Noble, NOOK Color, and Kindle Fire. The first edition of Money on tablet is the December 2011 issue, with the cover story Make Money in 2012, which is also available on newsstands now. Current Money subscribers will be […]
