Digg Headlines
name: Digg (exP: DIGG); price: 97.86; 
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Digg Hires Vast And Coremetrics Alum Ben Folk-Williams As New VP Of Engineering TechCrunch (Monday) As we wrote in late November, Digg's longtime VP of Engineering John Quinn joined flash sales giant Gilt Groupe. Today, Digg is announcing his replacement—Ben Folk-Williams. Folk-Williams was previously VP of Engineering at search and listings company V... |
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| Sat, March 12 2011 | |
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Ask a VC: Mike Maples Defends Digg’s Honor and the Kno (TCTV) TechCrunch (Saturday) Mike Maples, my guest on Ask a VC this week, is known for backing some of the best Web 2.0 entrepreneurs early on and hunting down "Thunder Lizards" or the 15 truly disruptive companies that hatch each year. But some of his most celebrated investments have... |
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| Mon, March 7 2011 | |
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Facebook Is Worth Ten Times As Much As Twitter On Private Markets (GS) Silicon Alley Insider (Monday) 80,000 Facebook shares just went for $33.00 a pop in an auction put on by secondary shares market Sharespost, according to an email Sharespost sent investors. That's an implied valuation of $74 billion. That's 10X bigger than the va... |
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| Wed, March 2 2011 | |
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Google’s New 404 Fail Robot Says, “That’s An Error, That’s All We Know” TechCrunch (Wednesday) As we've written in the past, 404 pages are an opportunity for startups and companies to have a little bit of geeky fun. Twitter has the Fail Whale, Google had its own version of the Fail Whale for Google Books Digg chose to go with the Fail Ox, and Blippy... |
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| Tue, March 1 2011 | |
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Twitter, Digg investor Mike Maples: Yes, there is a tech bubble Venturebeat (Tuesday) Facebook, Zynga and Twitter have inspired a host of copycats, and it’s those companies that are overvalued and are creating a growing tech bubble, said Floodgate partner Mike Maples. Some major companies in the Web 2.0 era have become incre... |
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Yet Another Entry Into The 404 Page Hall Of Fame TechCrunch (Tuesday) As we've mentioned before, having an awesome 404 Page is a source of pride among startups. From the Twitter Fail Whale, to the Google Fail Whale (of course) to the Digg Fail Ox to Blippy's Fail Double Rainbows you have to admit that these things freaking... |
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