Grubwithus, the Y Combinator startup that lets you book group meals with strangers, has opened registration for its second round of get-to-know-you meals featuring successful alumni of the startup accelerator. The meals, which will take place in November, are happening …
UberMedia CEO Bill Gross isn’t dodging the fact that his latest app, Chime.in, is a patchwork of other successful apps.
“It’s an amalgam of blogging and Reddit and Facebook — there’s aspects of each in there,” he told VentureBeat in …
News aggregation site Digg unveiled Newsrooms today, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content on specific topics like technology or politics.
Here’s how it works: Digg takes content from a number of sites it curates, …
Publishing corporation Condé Nast has spun off news aggregator Reddit.com into a fully-owned subsidiary that will operate autonomously from the company, the site announced today.
Reddit is still owned by Advanced Publishing, which owns Condé Nast, but Advance will not …
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Dead Island is one of the most anticipated games of the fall gaming season. It comes out next week — and you probably wouldn’t know about it if it weren’t for a gritty, visceral game trailer that went viral thanks …
News sharing social network Reddit has acquired Redditgifts.com, a popular independent gift exchange site created by Reddit community members, the company announced Tuesday.
Redditgifts is best known for organizing the world’s largest Secret Santa gift exchange and the mid-summer arbitrary …
While news-sharing site Reddit harbors many unique communities such as rage comic lovers, zombie aficionados, geeks and several others, its low on robust college communities — which is strange considering that a large percentage of Reddit’s total users are either …
A 24-year-old programmer and online political activist could face up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine after being indicted on charges that he stole more than four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …
News aggregator Reddit’s first systems engineer and employee number one Jeremy Edberg has joined video rental and streaming company Netflix.
He is joining the company as the “lead cloud reliability” engineer — a prod at the company’s recent history of …
It looks like Kevin Rose isn’t taking his departure from news aggregator Digg so badly.
Rose said on Twitter Thursday that he doesn’t even use aggregators like Digg as part of his online reading habits. Which is peculiar, given that …
The last five months have been very good for community news sharing site Reddit, which reported huge traffic growth on its official blog today.
From January to May 2011, the site has seen a 37 percent increase in unique visitors …
