Here is a round-up of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) says it is putting cash made from selling its older businesses toward buying new ones in digital and emerging markets.

Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to a “flat” content model, where a printed book is only one of many output options. The digital publisher of DK also said that companies like his need…

As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to be coalescing around a new interactive service for textbooks on Apple’s iPad tablet device.

The Economist has given HTML web apps another shot in the arm by packaging its U.S. presidential election material in to a new Flipboard-like tablet content offering that works entirely in the web browser.

(This version corrects an error in the percentage for the price increase of the FT) Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing. In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that…

The Financial Times has acquired London-based web and application developer Assanka, which made the web app on which the publisher has based its independence from iTunes.

This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers. One early sign of this shift was the 2010 launch of paywalls for the London Times and Sunday Times. These involved no new strategy; however, the newspaper…

It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfectly with ye olde analogue print magazines’ best qualities.

Pearson (NYSE: PSO) is to sell its 50% stake in the FTSE International group to the London Stock Exchange for £450 million ($700 million) in cash.

With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

The Economist said more than three million of its iOS and Android apps have been downloaded, as it reported six percent higher half-year operating profit of £26.2 ($40.49) million.

Consumption off the desktop is creating new audiences for The Financial Times before and after the working day.

The Financial Times’ digital subscriber base grew by eight percent in the period during which it pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store, as our chart shows…

The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them for free.

The Economist is finally moving to an iPad strategy compliant with Apple’s new developer terms, after what it calls “iOS bugs” under the new iOS 5 broke its non-compliant app edition.

The Financial Times is closing Tilt, its experimental pure-play online news service for emerging-markets finance professionals, 10 months after launch.

What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions discussed at a Financial Times panel in NYC last night. “There are lots of things that merge between media businesses and 2.0 commerce,” said Susan Lyne, chairman of Gilt…