Senator Jon Stewart grills Rupert Murdoch

• Murdoch kills The Daily

  Many suspected two years ago that the iPad-only publication was dead on arrival

  FORTUNE -- News Corp. (NWS) announced Monday that The Daily -- the iPad-only publication launched with great fanfare by Rupert Murdoch with the encouragement of Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs (and a little speech by Senior VP Eddy Cue) -- will "cease standalone publication" on Dec. 15, one month short of its second birthday.

  An unspecified number of the 120 MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 3, 2012 10:25 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Eddy Cue, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs

• Today in Tech: Why new PlayBook software won't help RIM

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  * Some analysts have previewed the software update for Research in Motion's PlayBook and aren't impressed. Worse, they believe the update will do little to turn the floundering tablet's sales around. (The New York Times)

  * Like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu is upping the ante by offering original content like the show Battleground, MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 17, 2012 4:15 AM ET
  Posted in: BlackBerry Playbook, Jason Kilar, Netflix, PlayBook, Research in Motion, RIM, Rupert Murdoch

• Apple books the Guggenheim for a Jan. 19 education event

  Returns to the venue where Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily on the iPad

  Eddy Cue, Apple's (AAPL) senior vice president for Internet software and services, is reported to be in charge of the much-touted special event scheduled for the morning of Jan. 19 in New York City. The wording of the blackboard-like invitation sent to reporters Wednesday -- "Join us for an education announcement in the Big Apple" -- suggests that this could MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 11, 2012 1:31 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Education, iPad, New York City, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, Textbook, Walter Isaacson

• What would make Apple's NYC event interesting: Bloomberg

  What if Apple turned the iPad into an easy-to-use front end for real-time financial data? 

  News Corp. (NWS), a ship that leaks from the top, reports through AllThingsD that Apple (AAPL) has scheduled "an important — but not large-scale" New York City event in late January headlined by Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president for Internet software and services.

  I'm having a hard time getting as excited about this as Kara Swisher seems MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 3, 2012 6:52 AM ET
  Posted in: Alexia Tsotsis, AllThingsD, Apple, Bloomberg, Brian S Hall, iBookstore, iPad, New York City, News Corporation, Newsstand, Rupert Murdoch

• Is Apple's answer to TV's big problem hiding in plain sight?

  All this talk about an Apple-branded TV set may be missing the point

  Reading between the lines of the Wall Street Journal's story Monday about Apple's "assault" on the TV business, you can almost hear the desperation of the media executives who asked Apple (AAPL) to brief them on exactly what the wizards of Cupertino are up to.

  These media executive -- which included, presumably, Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. (NWS) owns MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 19, 2011 8:23 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple TV, Cable TV, Homeland, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, TV, Wall Street Journal

• Today in Tech: Steve Jobs' private memorial

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  "I am not sure i agree that iPads are making music more accessible than ever. Before man kind had bongos and flutes and guitars and such, pretty accessible stuff." -- Bjork (Midem Blog)

  *  Steve Jobs was honored at a private memorial at Stanford University's Memorial Church last night. In attendance: Google MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 17, 2011 3:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iPad, Larry Page, Ron Conway, Rupert Murdoch, Stanford University, Steve Jobs

• Yahoo's next CEO? Meet the candidates

  At this point, the ultimate fate of the beleaguered Internet company is anybody's guess. But here are some of the executives that may get a chance at taking the top spot.

  FORTUNE -- It's impossible to guess who might be Carol Bartz's replacement at Yahoo because it's impossible to guess what Yahoo might look like when a replacement is named. It could be a totally different company before a CEO is MORE

  Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 8, 2011 2:39 PM ET
  Posted in: Alibaba Group, Amazon, AOL, AT&T, Bloomberg TV, Carol Bartz, Comcast, Disney, Google, Hulu, Jack Ma, Jason Kilar, Jerry Yang, Jonathan Miller, Michael Arrington, Microsoft, MySpace, NBC Universal, News Corp., Peter Chernin, PLanet of the Apes, Ross Levinsohn, Rupert Murdoch, TechCrunch, Tim Armstrong, Tim Morse, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan

• What's going on with the Wall Street Journal and Apple?

  The Rupert Murdoch-owned paper ran a couple of very odd stories this week

  There's not much doubt, Rupert Murdoch declared on his Fox News cable network last year, that Steve Jobs is the best chief executive in the U.S.

  "He's got such incredible focus," he told an interviewer. "He's got such power inspiring the people around him who work for him. And, you know, it's -- it's a highly, highly disciplined company... MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 23, 2011 8:50 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Daring Fireball, Dave Kansas, iPad, News Corporation, Nieman Journalism Lab, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Wall Street Journal

• Today in Tech: Facebook email rolling out, NokSoft's $1 billion deal

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  Microsoft is paying Nokia $1 billion to develop and market Windows Phone 7 smartphones. In exchange, Nokia will pay Microsoft a fee for each copy of Windows Phone 7 used on its devices, and those costs will likely be offset as the company downsizes its internal MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 8, 2011 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Charlie Sheen, comScore, Google, Hitachi, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, News Corp., Nokia, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Windows, Windows Phone 7, YouTube