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The Australian
| 10 months ago
IF you think chatting on Facebook is private, think again. "Smart" software watches every word, ready to dob you. Kevin Rose's brainchild that had Google circling for $200 million. Now, new owners are trying to salvage the whiz kid's busted...
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The Independent
| 10 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs The British Journal of Photography carried an interesting piece about the photographer that has just... The most read blogs from the past week, as determined by stats. On a train ride from Glasgow to London I was privy...
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The Motley Fool
| 10 months ago
Digg, once a popular news-sharing site, already has that dubious honor. New York's Betaworks has purchased the company for just $500,000, The Wall Street Journal reports ...Yahoo! battling over the rights to place contextual marketing on the site ...
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
We reject the blogosphere's new admonition to hot indie startups: Don't do a Digg . In Kevin Rose's defense, he is not the first founder to reject an inflated acquisition offer, only to see the company sell years later for a fraction of its former...
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
Despite being the co-founder of one of the biggest and most highly active discussion forums on the Internet, Reddit's Alexis Ohanian is a pretty modest dude. And when I say Reddit is highly active I mean it generates over 2 billion monthly page views...
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NewKerala
| 10 months ago
Digg raised 45 million dollars from its investors since launching in 2004, but now, its brand, website and its technology have reportedly been sold for a sliver of that to Betaworks, a technology development firm. According to the Los Angeles Times,...
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
While community news sharing site Digg may have sold for the low price of $500,000 , its other assets may have fetched a bit more. Professional social network Linkedin is said to have purchased some key patents from Digg just prior to its sale,...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
Betaworks has a plan to "take Digg back to its startup roots." In its heyday, social news site Digg raised $45 million from Silicon Valley investors. On Thursday, it was bought by New York development firm Betaworks for $500,000.
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Independent
| 10 months ago
Digg , the social news website that was once considered a rising star of the web, has been sold for just $500,000. Betaworks , a New York-based technology development company, bought the website but, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal ,...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Social news site Digg has been bought by technology development company Betaworks, who paid a reported £324,000 and plan to turn the site back into a startup. Created in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Digg.com became hugely popular and, after a round of...
