The FT saw over 100,000 users of its new web app in the first week of launch.

The FT is the first major news publisher to launch an app of this type, which will allow readers to access its award-winning journalism easily and quickly across a broad range of tablet and smartphone devices.

Readers are encouraged to switch immediately to the new HTML5-based FT web app, as many new features and sections will be added over the coming weeks.

Today we are also releasing a new FT Digital Digest Apps Special newsletter, includinga Q&A with the FT’s head of emerging technologies, Steve Pinches. To read the newsletter and subscribe, click here.