The Financial Times has acquired London-based application development firm Assanka, which built a nifty HTML5 web app - and other applications - for the publisher. (Hat tip to Benedict Evans ) FT staffers such as Katie Morley and Jonathan Wheatley started spreading the news on Twitter, garnering retweets from FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw and PR rep Tom Glover , who confirmed the acquisition to me but declined to share more details. Read more at TechCrunch Europe .