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News Corp’s The Daily Is Coming To Android

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


News Corp’s The Daily digital newspaper made its debut on the Apple iPad and soon it will be coming to Android as well. According to a source with AllThingsD, News Corp. is preparing to launch an Android version in the second quarter of this year. Apple worked closely with News Corp. to create the app and it became one of the first apps to go under the Apple subscription model.

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Stephen Colbert Bashes On The Daily [VIDEO]

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


This past week on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert decided to bash on News Corp’s The Daily iPad newspaper. Colbert said he was impressed by the product and said it offers “all the convenience of using your iPad to read the news online, but without the Internet’s annoying habit of being completely free.” Colbert also pointed out that The Daily is being praised by all of the media that is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Check out the video below.
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The Daily Interviews The Winklevoss Brothers [VIDEO]

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


In today’s issue of The Daily, there was an interview with the Winklevoss brothers. The Winklevoss brothers are currently pursuing a lawsuit against Facebook. The brothers had almost settled the lawsuit for $65 million in cash and stock in the company. In the interview, one of the brothers said that Mark Zuckerberg is the type of person that could “shake your hand and say and act and verbalize like you know… he’s behaving a good faith… and then do the exact opposite.”

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The Daily iPad Newspaper Takes A Long Time To Load?

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


John Gruber has subscribed to The Daily iPad newspaper. He reported that he read three issues over the last three days and his opinion about it has declined because of the load time involved. Gruber said that from the time he tapped the icon until the issue fully loaded, it took one minute and twenty seconds on Wi-Fi.
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News Corp’s Budget For The Daily Is $30 Million Per Year

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) today has announced The Daily, an iPad newspaper that will cost $0.99 per week or $39.99 per year. News Corp. is promising 100 pages of original content in each issue. iTunes accounts will be billed automatically annually or on a weekly basis.
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The New York Times Launching An iPad Newspaper Called News.me

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


TechCrunch has revealed that The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) is putting together an iPad newspaper called News.me that is the company’s response to News Corp’s The Daily. News.me is a social news reading application that shows you what your friends are reading on Twitter. News.me pulls in data from Twitter and bit.ly.
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The Daily iPad Digital Publication To Launch Officially On February 2

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


There is finally an official date for the News Corp. digital publication The Daily. Apple and News Corp. are holding a press conference next week to reveal the iPad publication. Rupert Murdoch will most likely be on stage to join Apple VP Eddie Cue to announce the availability of the app. The Daily is expected to cost $0.99 per week and will be run by Greg Clayman.

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News Corp’s The Daily Expected To Be Delayed Again Because Apple Is Tweaking Subscription Services

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) was expected to launch on January 19th, but now it is expected to be delayed beyond that date one more time. This way Apple will have time to tweak their subscription service for publications sold through iTunes. The plans to debut The Daily at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco will be tabled “for weeks, not months” according to AllThingsD. The delay is primarily caused from Apple’s end rather than News Corp’s end.

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News Corp’s The Daily Expected To Launch On January 19th

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Amit Chowdhry


After many delays, The Daily is finally expected to launch on January 19th. The Daily is an iPad-only publication that about 100 editors will be working on. News Corp. has about 1,000 readers testing out whether The Daily is properly put together. [Forbes]

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