How Will We Format Rupert Murdoch's The Daily, Which Comes Out Next Week?

In California, Steve Jobs Will Introduce the World to The Daily
Photo: The Daily Rupert Murdoch's tablet Tabloid, The Daily, is set to debut on Wednesday. But where would a Billionaire be without his equally rich friends? Nowhere. Hence, Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s iPad newspaper onstage with Apple's head honcho Steve Jobs. And you can't just debut the world's first ever anticipated iPad newspaper at, like, the Apple Store in Soho. Thus, the two media moguls will appear together at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the official Daily kick-off...

Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs To Introduce iPad Paper 'The Daily' Together
Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs will introduce Murdoch's new iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, at a special event in San Francisco sometime in the next few weeks, Yahoo News reports. According to Yahoo's Cutline blog, the two moguls will host a joint event at the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art to unveil The Daily. The blog reports that the event is slated for Jan. 19, but that the date could be changed. Murdoch has devoted considerable resources to the product, hiring high-profile editors and ...

News Corp. to Launch Digital Newspaper on Jan. 19
News Corp. (NWS) will launch its much-anticipated digital newspaper for Tablet Computers on January 19. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., and Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs will both attend the launch, Reuters reported without naming its sources. News Corp. is betting that Tablet Computers such as the Apple iPad will help boost the news business, which has struggled with falling advertising revenues. The digital paper will be called the Daily and will continue original coverage of news, th...

Media Matters For America Calls Out Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin
David Brock (r) and friends. (Hey, is that Bawney Fwank I see?) Oh please. Now David Brock has his panties in a bunch because Beck used vampire imagery and compared him to a “smelly kid in third grade.” (Media Matters) — Today, in response to the tragic shooting in Arizona and the increasing focus on the tone of political discourse, Media Matters for America founder and CEO David Brock issued an Open Letter to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch asking him to rein in Fox News persona...

Tomorrow, MySpace Will Lay Off 550 to 600 Employees
MySpace will announce massive Layoffs from its staff of just over 1,000 tomorrow. The number is expected to be between 550 and 600 as News Corp. tries to sell off its flagging property to Private Equity investors (or possibly Yahoo). If you're keeping track, that's a little over five years from Rupert Murdoch's initial "visionary" investment. Daily Staffers, that means you've probably got until about 2016 to convince the world it needs an iPad-only newspaper! [Network Effect/AllThingsD] ...

News Corp to hold 'confidential talks' with government on BSkyB bid
Source: The Guardian Critics of £8bn deal complain that Rupert Murdoch empire is being given unfair inside access to the DCMS News Corporation is gearing up for "confidential discussions" with Jeremy Hunt's government department this week about its bid to take full control of BSkyB. Executives from Rupert Murdoch's company were due to meet MPs from the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee behind closed doors on Wednesday. But that meeting is now off, triggering speculation ...

Oohs and Aahs for The Daily's 'Dummy Issues'
Been wondering what all the illustrious Daily Staffers have been up to since their whirlwind hires? They've been doing "full-scale dry runs" and "cranking out dummy issues" for a lucky thousand preview subscribers, reports Jeff Bercovici. Considering nary a Screenshot has leaked, the privileged issues probably came with formidable non-disclosure agreements. From the outside, though, it seems like everything is going swimmingly. Creator Rupert Murdoch is already toasting to its success, accordi...

More Play, Please, for Kindergartners, Parents Ask
Some kindergarten parents at Public School 101, a graceful brick castle in Forest Hills, Queens, wanted more free play time for their Children — so they made a fuss. Gone were the hours of carefree socialization that they remembered from their own childhoods; half days were now full days. There are now computers and smart boards; the kindergartens, in classes of 27, now practice reading and math on worksheets on desks. Play comes in the form of “choice time” — a 30-minu...

As Storm Approaches, Bloomberg Says He is in Charge of City, Wherever He is
At an afternoon news conference today, Mayor Bloomberg continued to deflect questions about his whereabouts during the last snowstorm even as The New York Times published a story that placed (Read more...) ...

MySpace lays off 500 employees
News Corp.'s struggling social network, MySpace, on Tuesday formalized an anticipated restructuring that will result in the loss of 500 jobs worldwide, or about 47% of the Workforce. MySpace Chief Executive Mike Jones said the Job Cuts were necessary to streamline operations and put the site on a path toward profitability, following its relaunch last fall as an entertainment destination for Gen Y. "These changes were purely driven by issues related to our legacy business, and in no wa...

MySpace cutting workforce by half
Struggling MySpace is cutting almost half of its global Workforce. The Social Networking website is getting rid of 500 positions, or 47% of its employees. The announcement comes as MySpace continues to be eclipsed by Facebook, and as it tries to reinvent itself as an entertainment website. MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m (£372m) in 2005, but it has struggled to make money for its parent company. Mike Jones, MySpace's chief executive, said the job ...

Myspace cutting 500 jobs, nearly half of staff
News Corp. bought MySpace for 580 million dollars in 2005 but it has been o... MySpace announced Tuesday it was cutting some 500 jobs, nearly half of the staff of the troubled News Corp.-owned social network, which has been eclipsed by Facebook. "Today's tough but necessary changes were taken in order to provide the company with a clear path for sustained growth and profitability," MySpace chief executive Mike Jones said in a statement. "The new organizational structure will enable us to move ...

Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs today, Verizon iPhone launch
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. As reported a week ago, MySpace intends to lay off 50%, or between 550 and 600, of its staff today under the guise of restructuring and shedding legacy business divisions. Afterwards, it's expected the struggling social network-turned-entertainment hub will look at sale options. Some possibilities: being picked up by a Private Equity buyer or even being sold to Yahoo. (AllThingsD) Would-be Verizon iPhone owners ...

Intel: The Chase Film
This commercial for the 2nd Generation Intel Core™ i5 processor is rather impressive (for a commercial, anyway): ...

Stock Investors Ready For Earnings Start
(NewsCore) - US Stock Markets next week are apt to be focused on earnings as the first trickle of numbers from the last quarter of 2010 comes in, MarketWatch reported Saturday. Between two years of steady cost cuts and an economy that seems to be in uneven recovery, hopes are that there will be some strong results when Corporate America reports its fourth-quarter profits. As a whole, the S&P; 500 Index is expected to post earnings growth per share of 27 percent with all 10 sectors tracked by Stan...

Intel to pay Nvidia $1.5 billion in patent deal
Intel Corp. agreed on Monday to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion in a six-year, cross-licensing agreement that forges a peace treaty in a legal war over technology used by the two Silicon Valley chipmaking heavyweights. The agreement is the largest licensing deal in Nvidia's history and comes at a time when the Santa Clara maker of graphics processing chips is moving forward with its ARM-based processors for desktops and supercomputers. And Intel, the world's biggest microprocessor maker, will be...

Intel Settles Legal Dispute With Nvidia for $1.5 Billion
Intel Corp. (INTC) agreed to pay rival Nvidia (NVDA) $1.5 billion so that the chip giant can use Nvidia technology. The deal ends a Legal Battle between the two companies. Intel had previously sued Nvidia over the right to keep making an Intel-designed chip, BBC News reported. Nvidia then counter-sued. "This agreement ends the legal dispute between the companies, preserves Patent peace and provides protections that allow for continued freedom in product design," said Doug Melamed, Intel senior ...

Intel to pay $1.5 bln in NVIDIA patent dispute
US chip maker Intel on Monday announced it would pay graphics card developer Nvidia $1.5 billion over the next five years to settle a Patent dispute. The companies have been arguing for nearly two years about whether a deal they inked allows Nvidia to produce Chipsets that work with Intel microprocessors. Intel filed a complaint in court in February 2009, asking a judge to decide which side is right. Nvidia counter-sued a month later. "This agreement ends the legal dispute between the compan...

Intel and Nvidia settle chip row
The world's biggest micro-chip maker Intel has agreed to pay its smaller rival Nvidia $1.5bn (£965.2m) to use its technology. The move brings to an end a legal dispute that began in 2009. Intel had sued Nvidia, a graphics chip maker, over the right to keep making an Intel designed chip. Nvidia then counter-sued. Intel now has the right to use Nvidia technology at a time when graphics processing is increasingly important. "This agreement ends the legal dispute between the companies,&qu...;

AMD's CEO resigns suddenly, board cites growth
(01-10) 17:54 PST San Francisco, (AP) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. forced out its CEO Dirk Meyer on Monday in a surprise twist of fate for a technologist who inherited the chip maker when it was in tatters and won fans on Wall Street for steering it through a wrenching turnaround. AMD is a heavyweight in the computer industry as the world's No. 2 maker of microprocessors. Meyer's sudden Resignation caught many in the industry off guard. Under his 2 1/2-year tenure, AMD came back from the bri...

Intels truce with Nvidia shows industrys shifts
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Intel Corp.’s decision to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion for the right to its Patents highlights the seismic shifts the Semiconductor Industry is undergoing. The licensing deal announced Monday comes as both companies are adapting to the new rules of the Consumer Electronics world, as Mobile Devices are changing the way chips are made. Intel, dominant in PCs, wants in to smart phones and tablets, and needs better Graphics Technologies as high-definition video prol...

CEO of AMD resigns as company seeks growth
SUNNYVALE, California (AP) — The chief executive of chip-maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has resigned. AMD describes the Resignation of CEO Dirk Meyer, 49, as “mutual” and effective immediately. Thomas Seifert, 47, the company’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, will succeed him on an interim basis while the company conducts a search for a permanent replacement. In a statement, the company praised Meyer for leading the company through an ongoing legal b...

When his music changed, Wayne Lo changed, and in time two people lay dead
On December 14, 1992, 18-year-old Wayne Lo shot six people at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachussetts, killing two. It was a shocking Crime that sparked a national debate over the links between violent Speech and violent action. But unlike alleged Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner, Lo wasn’t a follower of Conspiracy theories or a bewitched reader of The Communist Manifesto—he was a fan of the aggressive and confrontational music known as hardcore punk. Naturally, commenta

Tucson Shooting Suspect's Family "Hurting Real Bad"
NEXT » Yesterday, when the man suspected of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as well as over a dozen others (leaving six dead), in an apparent Assassination attempt appeared in court, not a single relative of Jared Lee Loughner was spotted in the courtroom. Now details are emerging about the 22-year-old's family, who initially blocked the FBI from entering their home. And a neighbor told the NY Post that Loughner's dad is "pretty much the neighborhood prick." The neighbor, who also said...

News Corp to launch digital newspaper January 19
News Corp, which generates almost 30 percent of its First Quarter revenue annually from publishing, is a making a big bet that starting a newspaper from scratch that is dedicated to tablet devices could help revive the news business. News Corp.said the digital newspaper, known as the Daily, will deliver original coverage of news, the arts, lifestyle, sports and opinion . The Daily's launch will initially be for the iPad, on a paid subscription basis, News Corp disclosed in a court filing in Dec...