FT hosts second annual Hack Day

The Financial Times hosted its second annual Hack Day on 20th and 21st May 2013, a 24-hour event that offers web developers from inside and outside the FT, and other interested staff, an opportunity to create prototypes for new digital products. Read more

Financial Times introduces new Spanish language service

21 May 2013: The Financial Times is today launching a new service in Latin America providing top FT news and analysis translated into Spanish. Available through the FT Syndication service, which offers media organisations the right to republish FT content, subscribers will receive 10 articles per week covering international trends and developments relevant to Latin America.

The service will include two articles a day in Spanish from Monday to Friday, available through print or digital channels. Content will include an opinion piece written by a top FT columnist and a news story from the world news, global economy or companies section. Read more

Financial Times partners with Internet Week New York

NEW YORK: 20-27 May: The Financial Times is proud to support Internet Week New York as an official media partner for the third consecutive year.

The weeklong festival kicked off yesterday with hundreds of web, media and technology focused events and discussions to continue through May 27. This year’s event will explore how technology has disrupted and revolutionized every section of business. Read more

Financial Times and Human Race invite riders to take part in FT London Sportive

16 May 2013: As part of this year’s Financial Times 125 anniversary celebrations, the FT is inviting readers and corporate teams to take part in the Financial Times London Cycle Sportive on 30^th June. The event is run by Human Race, the UK’s largest and most diverse mass-participation sports company, in partnership with community sports charity Access Sport.

The ride takes place in the capital and will see several thousand cyclists tackle a new 50km, 100km or 160km cycle route taking in many important landmarks from London’s Olympic history including Box Hill, which was made famous by the likes of Mark Cavendish and Lizzie Armitstead in the 2012 Olympic road cycling events. Participants will finish the ride with a lap of Herne Hill Velodrome, the venue for the track cycling events at the 1948 London Olympics. Read more

Tom Burgis wins 2013 FT Jones-Mauthner Memorial Prize

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Financial Times launches on Flipboard

The launch marks the latest development in the FT’s successful digital strategy of offering its content across an array of devices and platforms with a single login and subscription. Mobile delivers a highly engaged audience and is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving a third of all FT.com traffic and 15% of new digital subscriptions.

Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com, said: “The Financial Times’ launch on Flipboard builds on the success and popularity of our growing suite of mobile products, including the recently redesigned FT Web App, offering readers an important new channel to access FT journalism and strengthening our presence on Android, the largest smartphone operating system in the world. Full-page advertisements provide yet another opportunity for our clients to reach the FT’s powerful, international and increasingly mobile audience.” Read more

Financial Times appoints John O’Donovan Chief Technical Officer

09 May 2013: The Financial Times today announces the appointment of John O’Donovan as Chief Technical Officer, leading the FT’s technology strategy across the development and operations teams.

O’Donovan joins the FT from the Press Association where he was Director of Architecture & Development. Prior to that he was Chief Architect for BBC News, Sport and Weather. Read more

Financial Times launches on Wisers services

6 May 2013: Financial Times content is now available via Wisers Information Ltd., a leading news aggregation service provider, through the FT’s first third party platform deal in Asia. The partnership will enable Wisers’ 10,000 active business users in Hong Kong, which include leading clients in the finance sector, to see FT headlines through its services.

Financial Times multi-platform licences allow professionals to access FT journalism in the most convenient way for their work. The FT already has close to 2,800 corporate customers who have purchased rights to read our content via 40 third party technology platforms globally. Corporate licences are a flexible arrangement whereby companies pay once for rights to access Financial Times content, independent of the technology or service used. Read more

Financial Times 125th Anniversary Party, New York

On Wednesday, May 1, the Financial Times hosted a 125^th anniversary party at a mansion in New York to celebrate the news organization’s milestone year. The exclusive, invitation-only event was the first in a series of global receptions hosted by John Ridding, CEO, FT Group, and Lionel Barber, Editor, Financial Times, and gathered more than 300 leaders in business, media, technology, luxury, politics and academia.

Following remarks from John Ridding and Lionel Barber, special guest speaker Mayor Michael Bloomberg shared his congratulations and proclaimed, “it is no secret why this is one of the great newspapers of the world, and it is because the Financial Times is direct, insightful, independent, fair and you can trust what you read in this paper. The paper has always been on the cutting edge of financial journalism since its first days. With the Financial Times you’re getting world class journalism from top tier talent, and as you know, they are an indispensable business resource trusted by professionals from every industry in every corner of the world.” Read more