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FT rolls out Windows 8 app

The Financial Times released Friday its Windows 8 application, available to download for free from the Windows Store and accessible on any tablet, desktop or laptop running Windows 8.

The app will be pre-installed on Samsung Windows 8 tablet and PC models globally.

Access to FT content will be free via the app for the first month from launch, following which it will be integrated into the FT.com access model where once users have registered, they are able to sample FT content before subscribing.

“Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving 25 percent of traffic and 15 percent of subscriptions to FT.com,” said FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw in a statement. “The FT Windows 8 App is the next phase in our mobile development, offering FT content to the millions of people who use this platform every day. It extends the FT mobile footprint across all three major tablet platforms: Windows, Apple and Android and ensures we offer readers the choice of reading FT content anytime, anywhere and on whichever device they choose.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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