Future US buys news aggregator sites Ballhype and Showhype to beef up online portfolio
Ballhype and Showhype, Digg clones for sports and celebrity gossip built by a husband-and-wife team, have been sold for $3 million to magazine publisher Future US. The two sites, to be fair, aren’t just clones of user-submitted news site Digg — both also auto-aggregate top news stories from around the web, somewhat similar to tech news site Techmeme.
The sale was a quick flip for founders Jason and Erin Gurney, who launched Ballhype (above) in… Continue Reading