Posted May 2, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Let’s start with the good news: Digg is expected to release a beta version of their RSS reader sometime in June – well ahead of the planned closure of Google Reader on July 1. The bad news, unfortunately, is that…
Google’s announcement to ditch Reader took a number of faithful users by surprise yesterday including the team over at Digg. But rather than scour the web for a suitable replacement, the once-thriving social news website has decided to build their…
Posted January 2, 2013, 12:31 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Ringing in the new year, Reddit took to its blog to share the site's top ten posts of 2012. Additionally, Reddit also shared some of its rather impressive vitals, not the least of which are a healthy 37 billion page…
Once eye-balled by Google for $200 million dollars, New York technology studio Betaworks swooped in and purchased Digg and its remaining properties for just $500,000 on July 12. Betaworks has posted on its Rethink Digg blog that it is moving…
Posted July 12, 2012, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
New York technology studio Betaworks has agreed to acquire social news aggregator Digg and all of its remaining assets as part of a deal rumored to be valued at only $500,000. It’s quite the reality check for a site and…
Posted May 1, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
Multiple sources are reporting that the Washington Post has hired Digg’s technology team from the once-thriving social news site. The new staffers will be tasked with maintaining the publisher’s Personal Post project and Social Reader app on Facebook while the…
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