Following public reports based on recent Financial Times internal memos, we’re excited to be able to confirm that the FT has acquired Assanka.
When we set up Assanka way back in 2003, we had a hundred quid and wanted to do cool stuff with web technologies. In the nearly nine years since then, we have [...]
Strike me pink! Assanka and the FT
FT launches first major HTML5 mobile news app
Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of the new Financial Times HTML5 web app. The FT is the world’s first major news organisation to launch a pure web app with native like experience. Initially optimised for the iPad and iPhone, it will soon be available for users of Android, Blackberry and other smartphones [...]
Get the FT on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Ever since the launch of a certain 9.7 inch tablet device from Apple, the world of tablet computing has been turned on its head. As I write this there are still vendors pushing the old pretend-tablet devices that are really just laptops with screens that swivel (and therefore quickly break), but the real action [...]
CIPR launches new website
This is a business focused case study of our recent launch of the CIPR website. For a technical overview instead, read about the CIPR site on our tech blog.
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations is the professional body for the PR industry in the UK. With around 9,500 members, it produces policy, guidance, training [...]
Donating our old stuff
Assanka is getting pretty old for a technology company these days, and we’re starting to replace a lot of our old equipment. It still works, but we need the latest hardware for our projects, so it seems a shame to throw the old stuff away. It’s also very expensive, since many computers and [...]
Introducing Adnum – faster finance
Assanka has a great heritage working with financial services clients – we have developed software to manage the most complex of products, whether it be insurance, funds, or wealth management, we know our Sovereign Wealth Funds from our structured products, and can explain the principles of securitisation without going cross eyed. Over the last two [...]
Review of 2009
Since we’ve arrived at the end of the decade as well as the year it seems a fitting moment to reflect on what we’ve been doing over the last year. Assanka was founded in 2003, which makes us a child of this decade, and as we approach the end of it, we think we can [...]
CIPR appoints Assanka
Assanka has been appointed by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, the professional body for PR practitioners in the UK, to help develop and implement a new web strategy for the CIPR.
FT Mobile: Best mobile site at AOP Digital Publishing Awards
We are delighted to say that last night, FT.com won ‘best mobile site’ at The Association of Online Publishers Awards in London which celebrate the very best in UK digital media. The judges said that m.ft.com was
clear, clean, easy to use, with good use of personalisation while staying true to the brand. A thoroughly [...]
Our first Webby!
Assanka’s already award winning relationship with the Financial Times reaches the pinnacle of success with two Webby awards, taking Best Business Blog in both the judges’ and People’s Voice votes.