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Apple gives Financial Times app the axe over lack of compliance

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 30th, 2011)

Apple has officially removed The Financial Times' app, FT Mobile, from the App Store. The removal comes after the paper refused to sign on to Apple's subscription rules, which give Apple a 30% cut of any subscription revenues generated through the App Store. The Financial Times first raised ...

Financial Times launches HTML5 web app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 7th, 2011)

The Financial Times is turning towards HTML5 for its upcoming application (technically, a web app), in contrast to its older native iOS app. FT was not happy with the new subscription model offered by Apple, and was working with Apple to keep the revenue and demographic information from its ...

Financial Times gives iPad bonuses to staff

by Steven Sande (Nov 18th, 2010)

The Financial Times (FT), that UK-based financial newspaper printed on distinctive salmon-colored paper, is serious about the future of media on tablets like the iPad. FT launched a free iPad app back in May that has been an success story for the paper, with 400,000 subscribers paying for full ...

Murdoch reveals News Corp iPad app sales numbers at D8

by Mike Schramm (Jun 3rd, 2010)

Steve Jobs wasn't the only CEO on stage at the D8 conference this week -- Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp, also took the stage this week, and shared some sales figures for his company's iPad news apps. The Financial Times' app is the biggest winner, with 130,000 downloads, although that number is ...

Google to employees: 'Mac or Linux, but no more Windows'

by Michael Rose (May 31st, 2010)

We first heard rumors of this policy change a couple of months ago, but now it's made the papers: the Financial Times is reporting that Google is phasing out the use of Windows internally, as employees are migrated to either Linux or Mac OS X on machine turnovers or new hires. The policy change was ...

Rumor: Apple to offer iTunes subscription model

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2008)

According to the Financial Times, Apple is (still) considering an "all-you-can-eat" subscription model, which is strange, because why would anyone want to eat digital music? They must mean "listen." Yes, as speculated before (in order to figure out what Jobs will be doing in a year, just listen to ...