Rupert Murdoch

NYT's iPhone: Cheaper, not smaller

It's Sulzberger vs. Murdoch in the battle of the unnamed Apple sources

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter" -- one of whom claimed to have seen a prototype -- reported that Apple (AAPL) was working on an iPhone code-named N97 that was half the size and could be sold for half the price of the current model.

On Friday, the New York Times, citing "people briefed MORE

Why The Daily matters

It's not the end of the struggle to translate print media to a digital platform -- it's just the beginning.

Among the media elite, obits are already being written for The Daily. The content is unimaginative, they say. The tech is buggy. The numbers don't add up. And it's mostly true, but maybe they're missing the point.

Once again, Rupert Murdoch has launched a large and flashy innovation lab for the future MORE

Will Murdoch's Daily ever break even?

With an iPad-only product and a burn rate of $500,000 a week, it could be a tough slog

Let's do the math.

The Daily, the first news product designed for Apple's (AAPL) iPad, launched on Wednesday having already burned through $30 million just to get started.

That, says News Corp.'s (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch, has been "totally written off."

OK, fine. But now the fun begins.

Producing the thing, according to Murdoch, costs half a MORE

The Daily: Live from the Guggenheim

All eyes on Rupert Murdoch and Apple for the launch of the first iPad daily

After a 45-minute presentation, The Daily was set to go live on the Apple App Store at 12:00 p.m. EST. Here's the link. There's a video tour here. The press were treated with pre-loaded (loaner) iPads in the lobby. A quick hands on:

Paging through The Daily took about 10 minutes. The general impression is more magazine MORE

Murdoch's The Daily hits iPads today

The aging press baron makes one last bid to capture the eyeballs of the Internet generation

[UPDATE: The free (for two weeks) app is  available here. There's a video tour here. Click here for our live coverage of the event and first impressions of the product.]

At 11 a.m. EST, a museum-full of reporters and analysts will gather amid the Post-Impressionists at the Guggenheim to watch News Corp.'s (NWS) Rupert Murdoch and MORE

Who's who at The (iPad) Daily

Rupert Murdoch's new project goes live tomorrow. Here's who he hired to produce it.

Poynter.org's Damon Kiesow has taken some of the surprise out of the invitation-only launch of News Corp.'s (NWS) The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum Wednesday.

We still don't know exactly what the first daily newspaper created specially for Apple's (AAPL) iPad will look or read like, but thanks to Kiesow, we know who Rupert Murdoch has hired to MORE

Today in Tech: Egypt kills web access, LinkedIn's IPO

A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

Multiple outlets are reporting that Egypt has shut off local web access, a first in Internet history. Tweeted CNN reporter Ben Wedeman: "No internet, no SMS, what is next? Mobile phones and land lines? So much for stability. #Jan25 #Egypt" The move comes as thousands of Egyptian protesters call for an end to the 30-year dictatorship of 82-year-old MORE

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 MORE

Rupert Murdoch's The (iPad) Daily gets a launch date - sort of

A sister publication sets the week of Jan. 17 for the tablet-only newspaper's debut

The most-talked about daily newspaper this year -- indeed, the only newspaper that seems to be generating any buzz -- is The Daily, the semi-secret iPad publication being assembled with an all-star cast of editors on the 26th floor of the News Corp.'s (NWS) Manhattan skyscraper for Australian-born press baron Rupert Murdoch.

When will we get to read MORE

Today in Tech

Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.

News Corp head Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are reportedly knee-deep in the Daily, a digital newspaper that combines "tabloid sensibility" with "broadsheet intelligence" and will appear exclusively on tablets like the iPad some time early next MORE