Jay Adelson

Confirmed: Urban Airship Buying SimpleGeo

Ina Fried in Mobile on October 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm PT

The mobile notification service company is acquiring Jay Adelson’s location data service in an all-stock deal, the companies confirmed to AllThingsD.

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.

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.

Digg's Kevin Rose Talks About New Look, New CEO and How to Turbocharge an Old Web 1.9 Company!

Kara Swisher in News on August 12, 2010 at 7:57 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown drove over to Digg’s San Francisco HQ to pay founder Kevin Rose a visit. The 33-year-old Rose is one of the latest iconic entrepreneurs, driving the growth of the news discovery service in the early years of Web 2.0 to heights of popularity and, yes, massive hype about what he calls a “Web 1.9″ company. Rose has been in charge recently as interim CEO, working to release a much-needed new version–V4–of the Digg service over the next weeks, even as he searches for someone to take over the leadership and tries to figure out what the future of the company should be.

Digg Dumps 10 Percent of Staff

John Paczkowski in News on May 6, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

When former Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced his departure from the social news site earlier this year, he described it as a company maturing well beyond its start-up phase. “Digg Ads [are] doing well,” he wrote. “Our sales force [is] growing [and] our hiring ramping.” Odd, then, to hear that Digg sacked 10 percent of its staff today for what founder and CEO Kevin Rose says is “the long-term health of the company.”

Bebo Not Worth a Pail of Spit to AOL? This Comes as a Shock to Exactly–Hmm–No One.

Kara Swisher in News on April 7, 2010 at 5:20 am PT

Almost from the minute former AOL head Randy Falco handed over a giant bag of cash to Joanna Shields, the awfully clever chief money charmer of once darling social networking site Bebo, it was clear it was not going to end well. Essentially, AOL–then a unit of Time Warner–had forked over $850 million to corner the market on teen girls in the United Kingdom. Of course, all those girls are now using Facebook.

Digg CEO Jay Adelson Steps Out

Peter Kafka in Media on April 5, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Digg CEO Jay Adelson has left the company he has run for the past five years, leaving founder Kevin Rose to run the social news site in the interim.

Digg to Cut 10 Percent of Employees; Says It Will Try to Be Profitable in 2009 (The Entire Blog Post)

Kara Swisher in News on January 22, 2009 at 9:30 am PT

Digg, the San Francisco-based news discovery service and one of Silicon Valley’s more prominent start-ups of late, said in its company blog today that it would cut its 75-person workforce. A company spokeswoman told BoomTown the cut would be about 10 percent, but would not give out a specific number of employees to be let go. In addition, Digg noted it would be aiming to cut costs and be profitable in 2009. It will also be hiring a direct sales team. In other words, revenue does matter too, Web 2.0!

Digg Dudes’ Web Studio Revision3: Layoffs Last Month, but Ad Sales Are Up

Peter Kafka in Media on November 9, 2008 at 9:01 pm PT

Web video studio/distributor Revision3, which cut back staff last month, wants you to know that things are going great. But they’re not announcing their best news: The company’s revenues have tripled in the last year, and advertisers have been spending even more in the past few months. Go figure.