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.

Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before and after the working day.

The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our chart shows…

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…

The Financial Times may yet go on making hundreds of thousands of dollars through its existing iOS apps, despite having removed them from iTunes Store on Tuesday.

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…

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.

Anything an iOS app can do, the web can do better, Rob Grimshaw, The Financial Times’ online managing director, told paidContent:UK, after launching a HTML5 tablet and mobile “app” Tuesday ahead of the imminent deadline for publishers to comply with Apple’s revised app terms.

With a few weeks to go before Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) starts taking a 30 percent cut of in-app tablet subscription transactions, The Financial Times, which has been vocal in its opposition, is taking the bold step of putting its eggs in the web basket.

We didn’t need Sir Martin Sorrell telling us that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad will not be the savior of the beleaguered publishing industry, but for the record, the influential CEO of WPP has laid it out: “[The iPad’s] not regarded as being the thing that’s going to save us,…

The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” - many are confused exactly how they are impacted and are quickly seeking clarity from Apple.

The Financial Times is on-record as saying its iPad app generated a tenth of its (85,892) new cross-platform digital subscriptions last year. Assuming each subscription was the cheapest, £233.48 ($376.63) per tier, that would have made for £2 ($3.23) million in new iPad revenue. Praise, iPad!

Steve Jobs may have been beaten to the punch by Mark Zuckerberg at Time, but at the Financial Times, the CEO of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) today got the gong as its person of the year. The iPad gets special mention for how its appearance in January “capped the most remarkable…

Publishers are increasingly confident about the prospects for tablet editions in the post-print area. But, when it comes to actually monetising the opportunity, Android’s limitations mean iTunes Store remains the only real game in town for the forseeable future.

The Financial Times says it will give a £300 or $480 rebate to its 1,800 staff against the purchase of an iPad or other tablet. Newspaper publishers are clearly getting bullish about the prospects of a post-web future in which editions of their product are delivered, a bit like in…

—HTC’s ad campaign pays off: Another story about how HTC has created a brand out of a no-name white-label smartphone maker. The more interesting nugget of info is that HTC’s stock has jumped 94 percent this year, and with a market cap of 552 billion Taiwan dollars ($18 billion), the…

Lots of about next-generation payment platforms today, and it’s only beginning to ramp up. Most of the news surrounded PayPal’s developer conference today in San Francisco and its three designated themes: local, social and mobile. PayPal said today it is launching a new digital goods payment platform that will make…

The Financial Times’ new iPad app has generated more than £1 ($1.59) million in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according to the paper’s deputy chief executive. Ben Hughes, who is also the paper’s global commercial director, said more than 40,000 400,000 subscribers have signed up for the…

When we first showed a video of Penguin Books’ iPad concepts last month, observers got pretty excited about the possibilities. Now, we are told, the first “book” - if you can call it that - Penguin will release from the line-up will be a title about little puppy Spot. At…