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According to The Cutline, a Yahoo! news blog, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will join Rupert Murdoch on stage to unveil News Corp.’smuch-anticipatediPad newspaper called “The Daily,” at theSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on Jan. 19th. Murdochis reportedlyspending a total of $30 million on The Daily. While Murdoch has tried to keep the project quiet, I know a few reporters inNew York Citywho’ve already begun work on The Daily, many of them poached from local media outlets like the NY Observer, TheDaily Beast, Forbes, AOL, Politico and theNew York Postand from far-flung zines like San Francisco’s Wired Magazine....

Was Steve Jobs denied an honorary British knighthood because he refused to speak at a political conference? That’s whatThe Telegraphreports today. The story goes that Apple was aware of the 2009 proposal but that it was blocked at the last minute by then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown because Jobs had previously refused to speak at Brown’s party’s annual conference. Fellow US computing pioneer Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood, the highest honour that someone who is not a citizen of the Commonwealth can receive from the UK, in 2005....

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be among the attendees of President Obama’s event with business leaders in San Francisco this coming Thursday evening according to a report fromABC News. The three will be among the many business leaders in technology and innovation the president will sit down and talk to, as he continues to sell his State of the Union message....

Today’s announcement from Steve Jobs that he’s resigning as CEO of Apple and handing the job to protege Tim Cook isn’t a surprise. We’ve seen this coming since Jobs’ first leave of absence for health reasons, and there’s been a lot of discussion about Apple’s succession plan. But it is still news — big news — and there are a lot of questions to ask and think about. Perhaps most important at the end of such a significant era is to reflect on that era and take another look at just what was achieved....

No more than a week has passed sinceApple announcedit was going to introduce App Store Subscriptions and analysts, publishers and app developers are already up in arms. Apple has stated that for each new subscription registered via an iOS application, it will take 30% of the fee charged. The cut isn’t necessarily all bad, it provides existing services with an easy way for new customers to sign-up, without having to direct the user out of the app to an external webpage or require the user to enter yet another separate set of usernames and passwords....