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The Daily goes dodo: News Corp retires iPad app on December 15

Chris Davies — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:51:09 +0000

Ambitious iPad digital newspaper The Daily will be shuttered and the brand folded into other News Corp channels including The Post, the publisher has revealed, with the app ceasing on December 15. “Our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in

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The Daily To Erect Paywall Next Week

Rue Liu — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:59:48 +0000

The iTunes exclusive newspaper, The Daily, was the first to adopt Apple’s new in-app subscription model but has been offering up its content for free waiting for the arrival of iOS 4.3. After the new iOS arrived, The Daily offered an additional week free, but is now reminding people that they will have to pay

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The Daily subscription fees imminent; Western Europe next in line

Chris Davies — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:04:23 +0000

News Corp plans to begin charging for The Daily from next week, having been offering the iPad-only newspaper subscription-free since its launch back in early February. Jonathan Miller, News Corps’ chief digital officer, confirmed the switch at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, reports The Telegraph, as well as announcing that Western Europe would get its own

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The Daily Coming to Android Very Soon

Rue Liu — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:18:21 +0000

A couple weeks back The Daily made its splashy introduction exclusively on Apple’s iPad. That exclusivity will be gone in a couple months as The Daily is set to launch on Android sometime in the second quarter of this year. The announcement is a bit of a surprise since The Daily flaunted its relationship and

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Apple App Store subscriptions system gets official

Chris Davies — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:02:27 +0000

Hardly a great surprise, since we saw it used on The Daily and Apple VP Eddy Cue said it was coming soon, but Apple has officially launched subscriptions for the App Store. Publishers will be able to set the price and length of the subscription, whether weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, bi-yearly or yearly, and then

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The Daily Indexed bypasses News Corp’s iPad paywall

Chris Davies — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:20:30 +0000

Back at News Corp’s launch of its iPad digital newspaper, The Daily, editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo confirmed that, while HTML versions of articles would be posted online so that they could be shared from the app, there wouldn’t be a web interface to access them. Unfortunately for them, developer Andy Baio has stepped in and addressed

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Apple in-app purchase deadline March 31 tips developer

Chris Davies — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:20:55 +0000

Apple’s tightening restrictions on in-app payment support in iOS software, believed to be the reason Sony’s Reader app was rejected from inclusion in the App Store, will really begin to bite from March 31, according to one developer. Digital publishing specialists Yudu told the WSJ that, as of the end of March, apps without payment

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The Daily debuts new iTunes Subscription agreement

Chris Davies — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:19:48 +0000

In a new move, iPad digital newspaper The Daily has its own Application License Agreement in the App Store [iTunes link], with a new section on subscriptions. Further in, there’s also confirmation that Apple “may ask for your permission to provide the name, email address and ZIP code listed in your Account to the Licensor.”

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Murdoch: “This year and maybe next year belong to Apple”

Chris Davies — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:47:36 +0000

The Daily owner Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that News Corp will be looking to other tablets beyond the iPad, stating during the launch Q&A that “we would expect to be on all major tablets.” However, while that’s the intention, he says “we believe that last year, this year and maybe next year belong to Apple.”

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Apple: App subscription system announcement “soon”

Chris Davies — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:38:00 +0000

Apple VP of internet services Eddy Cue took the stage with Rupert Murdoch today to announce The Daily, and has confirmed that publishers can expect to “hear an announcement from us soon” as to when they might be able to access the same subscription model as unveiled today. The Daily will use a new recurring

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The Daily gets official: iPad app for “true news discovery”

Chris Davies — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:16:10 +0000

News Corp has officially announced The Daily, an iPad digital newspaper that promises “true news discovery.” The app will be published 365 days a year, and include over 100 pages of news, lifestyle, entertainment, opinion and sports content together with original videos, 360-degree photos, infographics and more, all for just 14 cents per day According

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iPad The Daily mag launch February 2 2011

Chris Davies — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:08:20 +0000

As tipped earlier this week, News Corp’s The Daily digital-only publication is now set to launch on February 2 2011 in New York, with CEO Rupert Murdoch joining Apple VP of internet services Eddy Cue on stage. The iPad-specific newspaper is expected to make use of a new subscriptions API developed by Apple, which will

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Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily iPad newspaper to launch in next 14 days

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:26:51 +0000

Rupert Murdoch is the man that owns a publishing empire and thinks that we should all pay for every bit of news we read online. Murdoch has been working on a newspaper for the iPad called The Daily for a while that has hit a few snags coming to market. The Daily was originally expected

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