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Wonderful, Digg Is Now Owned By An Advertising Company
Digg has been sold by its former owner, Betaworks, to ad-tech company BuySellAds for an undisclosed amount. The story, first reported by FastCompany, comes nearly a month after the news aggregation site shut down its RSS client Digg Reader. You could call this sale the death of an internet icon, but that happened when the…
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The Same Company That Bought Digg Just Bought Instapaper [Updated]
Betaworks, the company that rescued Digg from the toilet, has just bought a majority stake in Instapaper from Marco Arment. The biggest question is what will become of Instapaper, which rose to the top amongst the many bookmarking/mobile reader apps because of its superior design and engineering.