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Financial Times sees readership and revenues grow under tiered payment scheme

With the newspaper industry still currently struggling with new technologies offering readers an increased diversity of information sources - and, most importantly, free access - the Financial Times has reported some positive news for the old guard of print publications. Online readership for FT Group - a collection of publications, of which Financial Times is the flagship - jumped 27 per cent on 2009 figures to 149,000, and user registration on FT.com has spiked by 77 per cent to 2.5 million registered users. The Financial Times online operates a limited-use free access site, where registering allows users to access around 10 articles per month and some of the site’s features. Further features and unlimited news access can be purchased at two tiers through the portal . The company also reported a tally of 250,000 downloads for its iPad reader app, which indicates that more users are reading on new tech devices such as the Apple tablet.

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Google developing one-click payment system for news content

Google is reportedly developing infrastructure to host a one-click payment system for online news content, which would allow users a range of payment options to access news from various publishers - including micropayments and long-term subscriptions. The story was leaked by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which suggested: “Later this year, Google will launch an integrated payment system that will allow users to buy [news content] with one click and publishers to use a single infrastructure for web, mobile and tablet to monetise their content.” Google has made no secret of its plans to charge for news content in the future, outlining its plans for micropayments in September that are expected to work in a similar way to Google Checkout. Responding to the leaked news, Google explained: “We’ve consistently said we’re talking with news publishers about ways we can work together, including whether we can help them with technology to power any subscription services they may be thinking of building. “Our aim, as with all Google products, is to reach as broad a global audience as possible.” However, the spokesperson added: “We have nothing specific to announce at this time.” The move towards paid-for content will be a significant turnaround for Google , which has been a staunch supporter of an ‘open web’. However, as the company outlined in a document to the Newspaper Association of America in September, “‘open’ need not mean free

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US online ad market to approach $35 billion by 2014

As digital advertising formats continue to overtake printed media, a new forecast from analysts PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting online advertising revenue to increase by more than $10 billion (

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Google unveils plans to charge for news content

Google has unveiled plans to introduce micropayments for news content published to its site from third party newspapers.

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