Social news aggregator Nuzzel has secured its first round of funding just a few months after its launch.
Editor's Pick Discarded for pennies on the dollar, Digg has a new lease on life, but the rebuilt service is almost unrecognizable to those who loved it before. The new Digg is a single, compelling voice speaking for the Internet at large. But whose voice is it?
Jonathan Abrams' new startup, Nuzzel, is a slick, well-designed social news aggregator that pulls together all the hot stories from your Twitter feed.
Newsblur, a social newsreader that helps you find relevant news and features in the mass of digital content, has released its iPad app.
Digg is dead. But keep an eye out on that grave, because new owner Betaworks plans to resuscitate the once famed social news site. The company will unveil its surgically remastered machination on August, 1, less than two weeks from …
The Washington Post’s social advertising firm SocialCode has hired 15 engineers from Digg today, confirming rumors last week that the community news site was due for a shakeup.
Digg entered into serious negotiations with the Washington Post about selling the …
The social news-reader Flud isn’t just for iOS fans anymore: the company recently launched both Android and Windows Phone apps. And now, it’s planning to raise up to $8 million in a new round of funding.
Like competitors Pulse and …
Pulse has gone from college project to social news powerhouse in two years’ time. Friday, the blossoming business is taking a leap forward by going local.
Pulse, made by startup Alphonso Labs, has launched Pulse Local to provide application users …
Steal from the best, but make it your own, as the saying goes. Facebook has done just that by co-opting two concepts made popular by others in an effort to make its social network the first place people go to …
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Would you trust the masses to tell you what stories are important? A new site from Microsoft called msnNOW shows you what topics are trending right this very second so you don’t have sort through hundreds of RSS or Twitter …
Twitter is grabbing more talent, this time out of Vancouver. Summify, a social news aggregator, will shutter its technology and be absorbed by the social network starting today.
“Cristian Strat and Mircea Pasoi have created a product that curates the …
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 …
Jeremy Edberg, the first employee of social news site Reddit, has announced that he is leaving the company after working there for 4 years.
Edberg joined the company when it first started with co-founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman and …
As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21.
But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact …
Link sharing community Reddit said goodbye to Senior Software Engineer Mike “Raldi” Schiraldi, who announced he was leaving the site after a “dream offer” from Google.
“At this point in my career, I want to work at a place where …
Social news aggregator Digg laid off more than a third of its staff Monday in the wake of a failed redesign, and its top sales and finance executives left — suggesting that more than just the website’s look and feel …
Digg, the pioneering social-news site which lets users vote on top headlines, began to lose momentum during the recession because it pulled engineers from designing new site features to work on improving revenue, founder Kevin Rose said today.
Rose said …
It takes just under five months to redesign one of the largest news aggregation sites in the world and bring in a new CEO, apparently.
On the heels of former CEO Jay Adelson’s departure in April, news aggregator Digg will …
Update: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has replied to Huh’s offer on his blog. He says that he would be “very surprised” if Reddit were sold, but considering all of Huh’s accomplishments, they should probably chat at some point.
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The user community of news-aggregation website Reddit is up in arms after site owner Condé Nast stated it would not run ads promoting California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana under certain restrictions.
Instead of using the online ad space …
