grawk Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/07/12/2215231/diggcom-sold-to-betaworks-for-500000 "The once popular social news website Digg.com which received $45 million in funding, is being sold to to Betaworks for $500,000. From the article: 'Betaworks is acquiring the Digg brand, website, and technology, but not its employees. Digg will be folded into News.me, Betaworks' social news aggregator. This is not the outcome people expected for Digg. In 2008, Google was reportedly set to buy it for $200 million." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlSeibert Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Ooops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Damnit! Outbid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 $16 million? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 note to self - sell out to google if they offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 srsly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 note to self - sell out to google if they offer "In 2008, Google was reportedly set to buy it for $200 million" Was it Google that pulled out of the deal? I would imagine they knew something we didn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 I think the digg guys thought it would be worth more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Ouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeymad Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 now all they are really buying is the user info for marketing, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screaming oranges Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 So if we all here had pooled our resources we could have owned Stax and Digg today... hmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recstar24 Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 We could have bought digg, and spammed the hell out of users to join head case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 Everyone would have only bitched about new users though Ryan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recstar24 Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 You've won this round... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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