News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on May 10 at 4:00 am PT
The Washington Post has closed its deal to acquire some of Digg’s technology staff, who will go to work for SocialCode, a Washington Post subsdiary that helps marketers buy ads on Facebook and Twitter. AllThingsD had previously reported that the Digg hires would work alongside the team that built the paper’s Social Reader; that team works for WaPo Labs, a different subsidiary.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 30 at 7:40 pm PT
Digg isn’t done. Yet. But it’s looking pretty close.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 12 at 7:00 am PT
The meme community site 9GAG has grown explosively in the last six months, with more unique visitors around the world than Reddit.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 15 at 10:01 am PT
Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation.
Kara Swisher in News on February 6 at 5:45 am PT
Here’s a big, honking update on the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s various machinations for you!
Liz Gannes in Social on December 21, 2011 at 11:05 am PT
Today, news voting site Digg goes live with Facebook’s “frictionless” open graph, one of the few new apps to get the go-ahead since Facebook first debuted the feature in September.
Liz Gannes in Social on October 17, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross’s new interest-based social network will to pay people and brands for their contributions.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 4, 2011 at 10:45 am PT
What exactly Kevin Rose is working on is still murky. In fact, it’s milky: His grand new start-up, Milk, is actually an incubator for mobile apps. But the boy geek says he’s ready to grow up and be CEO of something.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 21, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
The social news site is generating a billion page views a month, with a small staff that’s been getting smaller recently. Condé thinks it could be worth $200 million as a standalone company.
Liz Gannes in Social on March 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm PT
Digg CEO Matt Williams said his team has been in “fire-fighting mode” since he joined six months ago, which has paid off in increased usage, but he also disclosed that Digg VP of Product and Engineering Keval Desai is on the way out.
