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Not long after we just showed you afirst lookat what the joint Apple/Murdoch project might look like, we’re seeing news fromMedia Memosaying that we’ll have to wait a bit longer to finally use it for ourselves. Citing sources close to the parties, it appears that Apple needs to do a bit more work on the subscription model. The delay is supposed to give Apple time to tweak its new subscription service for publications sold through its iTunes platform....

You watched the livestream earlier, then you read our lengthyarticle listing everything you needed to knowabout The Daily – now the iPad application hasgone live on the App Store. The Daily will feature news articles, interactive graphics, videos and photos designed to work with the iPad’s touchscreen. The Daily will cost a mere 14 cents per day, 99 cents a week, $40 per year and will be sold exclusively via Apple’s iTunes store....

Data fromComScoretoday reveals that UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail’s website,MailOnlinehas overtakenThe Huffington Postto become the number 2 ‘newspaper website’ in the world. AsMediaWeekreports, MailOnline’s unique visitors rose 27% between February and March, up to 39,635,000. Despite seeing a 20% rise itself, The Huffington Post was pushed into third place with 38,429,000. Meanwhile,the New York Timessaw an epic 41% increase, taking it to a record 61,964,000 global unique users. With the New York Times’ paywall havingkicked induring mid-March, that lead could well be reduced in ComScore’s next set of figures....

As first reported by AllThingsD, sources say Rupert Murdoch’s famed “iPad newspaper”, The Daily will be coming to Android tablets this spring. At its launch event earlier this month, Murdoch said he expected The Daily to be on all major tablets in the future, but was quoted saying that “last year, this year and maybe next year belong to iPad.” So it is a bit surprising to hear that the “iPad newspaper” could appear on tablets like Motorola’s XOOM in just a few months time....

So, after months of speculation, Rupert Murdoch’s ambitious iPad newspaper projectThe Dailyisfinally availablein the US App Store. With $30 million invested in it, does it deliver on the huge amount hype and expectation built up around it? Here are my first impressions. The launch event said all the right things Watching The Daily’s live video streamed launch today, it was hard not to be impressed as a product was announced that appeared to answer many of the criticisms levelled at iPad magazine and newspaper apps to date....