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Digg sold for $500,000

Avatar of JD Rucker JD Rucker Updated: November 18, 2022

Digg

Betaworks, a New York technology development firm that has had its eyes set on news distribution for some time, has purchased former social new powerhouse Digg.com for $500,000, sources close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal. Betaworks founder John Borthwick will be the new CEO of Digg.

“I’ve always been a fan of John’s product vision and the companies he builds, funds, and advises,” said Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg. “John understands the real-time nature of the web and how to capture and surface trends as they occur. Given his experience with bit.ly, news.me, and Chartbeat I can’t wait to see what he does with Digg.”

Digg is still a prominent site despite the low price tag with over 7,000,000 visitors in May according to comScore. It will be combined with News.me, a service that sends people top news via email from Facebook and Twitter as well as an iPad and iPhone app that does the same. The combined forces may be enough to bring relevance to both that neither was able to gain in recent months.

Digg’s well-publicized switch to V4 in 2010 was the beginning of the downfall for the company that was once courted by the likes of Google. They reportedly turned down an offer of $80 million.

In a blog post, outgoing CEO Matt Williams said, “Digg will join a portfolio of products developed by Betaworks designed to improve the way people find and talk about the news.”

Meanwhile, Reddit, the biggest competitor to Digg in the past, is heading in the other direction.

Digg Reddit

Which means…

Reddit Ridicule

This post was orginally published on: July 12, 2012 and was updated on: November 18, 2022.

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JD Rucker is Editor at Soshable, a Social Media Marketing Blog. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, and founder of both Judeo Christian Church and Dealer Authority. He drinks a lot of coffee, usually in the form of a 5-shot espresso over ice. Find him on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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  1. Avatar of Ruud ReijmerinkRuud Reijmerink says

    July 12, 2012

    THX for the article,

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  2. Avatar of mika at cash4laptops.commika at cash4laptops.com says

    July 12, 2012

    I saw the news at Digg actually. But hey, one of the community managers there said there is one thing he will not miss – the spammers.

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  3. Avatar of careNfashioncareNfashion says

    July 12, 2012

    Agree with Mika, spammers is a big problem. But now they need to come up with solution. After all they are famous for innovative technology  

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  4. Avatar of Bran DeditemsBran Deditems says

    July 13, 2012

    This report first hit reddit early this morning. Then it turned out that other companies had spent about 2 mil in total to buy patents from digg. Digg stumbled with their pro-MPAA position on the DeCSS key and the v4 redesign. After those mistakes their users flocked to reddit and elsewhere never to return.

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  5. Avatar of sum@ create iphone ringtonessum@ create iphone ringtones says

    July 15, 2012

    digg is the best bookmaking site, it has sold $ 500,000 I think it is better than that.

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