News Corp axes iPad news app The Daily (and bolsters the New York Post)

Production of the Daily's iPad app will cease on December 15, 2012, though News Corp says its brand will "live on" in other properties.

Survey says: No one is happy with the current state of Digg

“We learned that no one is happy with the current state of Digg.”

Those are the words of Betaworks’ Jake Levine, now Digg’s general manager, on the conclusive feedback of thousands of people who responded to a survey on how …

News junkies turning to apps over the web for their daily fixes

UPDATE 3/21/2012: We’ve updated this story with the correct name of Localytics.

As our culture shifts from a desktop-based paradigm to a mobile one, news junkies are leading the trend with their consumption habits.

New data from app analytics firm …

Pulse raises $9M for its slick news reader

Pulse, which created the popular Pulse news reading app, has raised $9 million in its first round of institutional venture funding.

The app aggregates news stories from RSS feeds and social networks and presents them in a design that was …