ChurnBee, from the team behindNewscurve, has just launched in beta form, bringing a simple approach to understanding business and customer data for for SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)-focused startups. The software gives SaaS startups access to key business metrics like Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), Lifetime Value of a customer (LTV), churn, retention, and more. While it’s by no means the first to offer access to these sort of metrics, and the insights that come from them, ChurnBee is offering it in a far simpler package, by allowing users to select from pre-made ‘recipes’ that incorporate the key metrics in visually appealing, easily presentable and shareable ways....

News has just emerged that the News of the World newspaper is to close this Sunday after 168 years. It seems that the latest phone-hacking allegations against the newspaper, where it apparently hacked into missing teenager Milly Dowler’s mobile phone’s answer machine, meant that there was no way back for the publication. With further allegations that the Metropolitan police had been paid £100k in bribes by the News of the World, Rupert Murdoch will be pulling the plug on the newspaper after this Sunday’s edition....

Aftermonths and monthsof build up, and more than a few pushed back launch dates, Rupert Murdoch’s The Dailyarrivedin the US app storethis past February. Declared the world’s first iPad newspaper, it feature news articles, interactive graphics, videos and glossy photos designed to work with the iPad’s touchscreen. A few of you were keen to knowhow to download The Daily outside of the US. For those of you in the UK, you no longer have to sneak around....

In February, News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch announced his iPad newspaper, “The Daily,” featuring news articles, interactive graphics, videos and glossy photos designed to work with the iPad’s touchscreen. At a press event held in New York City Murdoch said he needed 500K subscribers paying $.99 per week to break even on the news app, which costs $500K to run weekly. According to Bloomberg,The Dailyis only averaging about 120,000 unique weekly visitors according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication....

Aftermonths and monthsof build up, and more than a few pushed back launch dates, Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily has officially arrived. You can download ithere in the app store. Rupert Murdoch welcomed the crowd this morning at theGuggenheim Museum in New York, with much discussion overNews Corporation‘s expanding media empire with the world’s first digital newspaper exclusively built for the iPad. “New times demand new journalism… and a new service edited and designed specifically for new devices....