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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Alphaville wins best business blog
Assanka is delighted to announce that FT Alphaville has won Best Business Blog at the prestigious 2007 EPpy awards in Miami, Florida. FT Alphaville is developed, maintained and hosted by Assanka for the Financial Times, and features up to the second, cutting edge business journalism from a dedicated editorial team based in London and [...]
Instant market insight
Reporting on financial markets has changed little over recent decades. The rumour mill may have moved from the dining rooms of the City’s finest eateries to the mobile and blackberry, but ultimately the efforts of the markets reporter still result in a daily digest of what’s moving in the marketplace. Despite the improvements [...]