Ramping up its mobile investment.
News Corporation has announced that it's bought Skiff, the e-reading platform developed by another big publishing group, Hearst Corporation.
Skiff was designed to turn newspapers and magazines into e-publications for tablets, smartphones, e-book readers and netbooks.
News Corp appears to have bought the Skiff platform, rather than the physical Skiff Reader e-reader which Hearst unveiled in January.
The news was announced alongside an investment in Journalism Online, a company that aims to help newspapers and magazines to charge for their content.
"Today’s developments underscore News Corporation’s ongoing commitment to create strong business models that support journalism at a time of great change in our industry," says News Corporation's chief digital officer Jon Miller.
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The company has recently launched iPad apps for The Times and The Sun in the UK, with the latter app going live this morning.
