Originally (but unofficially) announced for Jan 19th, News Corp's new baby, The Daily, is expected to go live Feb 2nd, paidContent reported. According to the invites that hit inboxes today, the article said the Guggenheim Museum in New York will be the location. Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch were the awaited presenters, but due to his medical leave Apple is going to be represented by iTunes guru Eddy Cue. Brian Stelter of NYT's Media decoder confirms the press event will be Feb 2nd, at 11 am and he said a spokeswoman confirmed that the app would be made available to consumers on the same day.

The Daily Mail website scored another month of record traffic, reportedly driven by US growth, the Guardian reported, referring to ABC's figures. Mail Online was the only UK national newspaper website to defy a dip in online audience in December, topping 3 million daily users for the first time in the process, 3,58% up from November. UK traffic accounted for 35% of Mail Online's total monthly audience, with one source indicating that US growth was a key driver of traffic for the site, the paper said.

The Empire reported Newsday has recently hired 31 new, tech-savvy people. "It represents one of the largest infusions of new blood at the storied news outlet", the article said. 13 of them are going to Long Island desk, 10 to Newsday.com, 4 to news desk, 2 to "presentation desk", 1 to Explore L.I. and 1 to Sports.

Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt tells All Things Digital's Peter Kafka that relations between his company and Google are smooth, despite a blog post from the search engine giant last week that implied that its algorithm was targeting content farms.

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