Friendster’s founder pulls in $1.7M for social news startup Nuzzel
Social news aggregator Nuzzel has secured its first round of funding just a few months after its launch.
Social news aggregator Nuzzel has secured its first round of funding just a few months after its launch.
Mobile news aggregator Zite is giving popular web publishers their own sections within its digital magazine apps, the company announced today.
Zite, which was was acquired in August 2011 by CNN for over $20 million, lets you build a custom …
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 …
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 story about Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s takedown has skyrocketed to the top of news aggregation sites like Condé Nast’s Reddit — showing that even tech geeks are rushing behind what might be one of the highest trafficked …
It looks like Digg founder Kevin Rose has found his rebound start-up after breaking up with Digg just about two weeks ago — a web application development lab called Milk.
Milk doesn’t seem like a traditional incubator (they usually offer …
Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company.
Rose has begun working on a separate startup that is already close to completing an …
Condé Nast-owned news aggregator Reddit announced today that the site had more than 1 billion pageviews in January.
But Reddit’s growth didn’t just come from the site’s typical role as a news aggregator. Reddit’s sub-communities, which focus on a specific …
With its launch of Election 2010: Citizen Sound-Off today, online news aggregator Topix is now the only website to couple localized voter information with a platform for open participation. But can it channel this big election into even bigger ad …
Have you ever opened your RSS reader and felt like you’re gazing into the abyss at the gazillion unread items? Have you felt the guilty satisfaction of using the “Mark all as read” option? If so, Summify, a startup based …
BuzzFeed, a New York City-based news aggregator, announced $3.5 million in Series A financing from Softbank and Hearst. Started by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, the site launched in 2006 and is now receiving one million unique visitors a month.…