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Yahoo Starts Making Wish List, as Asian Deal Huffs to Finish Line and Board Changes Readied

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!

The Facebook “Frictionless” Sharing Apps Trickle Out: Digg Is Next

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.

Bill Gross’s New Social Network Chime.in Will Pay People to Use It

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.

What's Next From Kevin Rose? A Social and Location-Aware Mobile App From His New Incubator, Milk

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.

If You Love Something, Set It Sort-Of Free: Condé Nast Mulling Reddit Spin-Off

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.

Digg CEO: We're Not Dead, I Promise (Yet VP Product & Engineering Is Leaving)

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.

Is There a Second Act for Kevin Rose?

Liz Gannes in Social on March 18, 2011 at 3:52 pm PT

As TechCrunch reported today, Digg founder Kevin Rose is starting a new company. Rose told NetworkEffect at SXSW he was working on a new start-up, but I hadn’t written about it yet as I had yet to find out what the company actually does.

StumbleUpon's Second Wind Continues as It Raises $17M

Liz Gannes in Social on March 9, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

StumbleUpon, the content discovery service, has raised $17 million in new funding, according to sources close to the company.

Yahoo's (and Associated Content Founder) Luke Beatty Talks About Google's Content Farm Putsch

Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am PT

Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried. “We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web and the search giant’s results. “And we endorse what Google is doing 100 percent.” That’s ironic, given among those allegedly hit hardest by the tweaking of its famous algorithm–based on early, and perhaps questionable, surveys–is Yahoo’s Associated Content. Its founder talked to BoomTown about the impact.

New Digg CEO Calls Previous Launch "a Tragedy," Commits to Community

Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Five months after becoming CEO of Digg at a time of much turmoil, Matt Williams is finding a voice of his own, separate from founder Kevin Rose’s. Williams had what seemed to be a largely successful discussion with the Digg community, posted this week.