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Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs plan 'The Daily' iPaper

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/mobile-computing/Tablets%20and%20touchscreens/ipad/IMG_0003-200-200.jpg"> Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is reportedly set to team up with Apple to launch an iPad newspaper called 'the Daily' this month. Jobs and Murdoch hope that the new iPad newspaper, called 'the Daily' is set to be a game changer when it arrives later in November, according to reports in US newspapers over the weekend. The iPad newspaper project has been under development in New York for months, with both company's hoping that providing quality exclusive content to the iPad should prove to be both profitable and revolutionary. Tabloid meets Broadsheet The editorial line of 'the Daily' hopes to combine "a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence", and there is no print edition or – most interestingly – web edition planned. So if you don't have an iPad or a compatible tablet PC device, you will not be able to subscribe and obtain the content on offer from the Daily. The Daily is set to be US-focused and will cost 99 cents (62p) a week. News Corp has reportedly hired 100 journalists to work on the project to date. An announcement is soon to be made about the publication's editor, with rumours in Manhattan media circles pointing towards Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the New York Post . One source told The Guardian: "He envisions a world in which every family has a iPad in the home and it becomes the device from which they get their news and information. If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily, that's already two million customers." The Times recently claimed to have over 100,000 paying customers for its <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/the-times-and-sunday-times-retreat-behind-paywall-700690">subscriber-only online edition</A>. "Obviously, Steve Jobs sees this as a significant revenue stream for Apple in the future," noted Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at the Donald W Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs plan 'The Daily' iPaper

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is reportedly set to team up with Apple to launch an iPad newspaper called 'the Daily' this mo...

Murdoch to pull the plug on MySpace?

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com/classifications/computing/internet-and-broadband/images/MySpace-newlogo-200-200.jpg"> News Corporation's president has spoken out publicly against the financial state of social network MySpace, saying that the losses from the social network are 'neither acceptable or sustainable'. MySpace has been put on notice by parent company News Corp, with Chase Carey, News Corp's president, noting MySpace "is a problem" after quarterly losses in its News Corp's digital and other activities increased by $30m to $156m (£97m). MySpace relaunches <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/news-corporation-reboots-myspace-903655">MySpace relaunched recently</A> as a music and entertainment network and, interestingly, with concurrent marketing blurb claiming the site was now a 'complement' to Facebook, not a competitor. That didn't stop Chase Carey from noting this week that "traffic numbers are still not going in the right direction" and MySpace's performance is being judged "in quarters, not in years". News Corp originally bought MySpace back in 2005 for $580m (£360m) in 2005. Overall, News Corp's net income in the company's first quarter to 30 September 2010 increased by 36 per cent to $775m across all of its businesses, from 20th Century Fox film and Fox News through to Star TV in Asia.

Murdoch to pull the plug on MySpace?

News Corporation's president has spoken out publicly against the financial state of social network MySpace, saying that the losses from ...