3 April 2019 - The Financial Times and Nikkei have today launched Tech Scroll Asia, a weekly newsletter covering technology trends in Asia for a global audience. The newsletter will carry exclusive news, crisp analysis, smart data and the latest tech buzz, distilled from the joint resources of the Financial Times and Nikkei.
“Asia’s tech sector is absorbing more investment capital than anywhere else in the world with billions made, and lost every month. But Asia's importance in tech extends well beyond the region and investors have taken note,” said James Kynge, the FT’s global China editor who is based in Hong Kong.
“With Tech Scroll Asia, we’ll guide our readers through this compelling story as it unfolds, revealing the key trends, winners, losers and disruptors on the Asia tech scene,” he added.
Produced in Hong Kong, Tech Scroll Asia will feature content from both the FT and Nikkei Asian Review. FT subscribers who sign up will be given a 30-day complimentary subscription to Nikkei Asian Review.
Tech Scroll Asia is the first initiative born out of a Nikkei FT innovation fund that provides up to £2m in investment annually to support new strategic projects. It will support the FT’s efforts to drive long-term, quality subscriber engagement and growth in the US, a key growth market for the FT in the coming years.
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About the Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of one million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.
About the FT Group
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About Nikkei Asian Review
Nikkei Asian Review is Nikkei’s flagship English publication offering comprehensive reporting across the region via its website, mobile app and weekly print edition. Nikkei Asian Review won the top prize for opinion writing in the Society of Publishers in Asia’s 2018 Awards for Editorial Excellence.
About Nikkei
Nikkei is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted provider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has grown into one of the world’s largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500 journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the U.K.-based Financial Times in 2015. Our combined digital and print circulation totals over 3 million, and we are continually deploying new technologies to increase our readership.