Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A recent photo of sunglass-sporting Digg CEO Jay Adelson with slightly more nerdy Google cofounder Larry Page sent reader theodp on an '80s nostalgia trip. (Photo by Reuters, photoillustration by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
The problem with directly addressing rumors rather than using “no comment” is that the public then expects the same treatment each time. Thus is the predicament Digg’s chief executive Jay Adelson now finds himself in. During the last round of Digg acquisition rumors in March, Adelson took the time to write a post on the Digg [...]
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | yesterday
CNET and a number of other blogs report that Google may buy social news site Digg for approximately $200 million. This has been something we've been eying for awhile, with Reuters photographing Digg CEO Jay Adelson with Larry Page of...
ZDNet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Digg chief executive Jay Adelson has denied a report that the social news aggregation site was on the verge of being acquired for about US$200 million by search giant Google.
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Google cofounder Larry Page and Digg CEO Jay Adelson were all smiles at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley retreat. Was it because they had just wrapped up a long-rumored deal for Google to buy Digg, with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the houses on this one before. During the last "Google buys Digg" inflammation, in March, Digg CEO Jay Adelson :
p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news view | Products:- Is Do No Evil Google in the last stages of negotiations to buy Digg? Again? On March 8, “Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning’s rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate,” p2pnet quoted the company’s Jay Adelson...
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in the US, with the most high-profile of those being Kevin Rose and Digg's current chief executive Jay Adelson.The site is one of the best-known internet content and social news aggregators, and has a number of competitors, such as Slashdot and Reddit. It has a substantial advertising deal with Microsoft and a loyal user community who contribute heavily to the site.Credit: from Did you find...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
... news website Digg started as an experiment by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson in the last quarter of 2004, and raised it’s initial funding of 2.8 million in the second quarter of 2005. When Del.icio.us got bought by Yahoo in 2005, many people expected Google to buy Digg. In contrairy, it was Yahoo that was rumored to buy Digg in 2006. In 2008, Yahoo releases a Digg clone...
CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... or two major media companies had whipped a sizable number of Digg users into a panic. Digg CEO Jay Adelson, perhaps in an effort to assuage those fears of having a corporate owner, that seemed to go a little above and beyond the call in denying the rumours. "Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this," Adelson wrote, "but this morning's rumours about a bidding war...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... launch partners, and will show off the new product on stage, say our sources. However, neither CEO Jay Adelson or Founder Kevin Rose will attend the event. We’ve also heard from sources that Facebook will announce a tiering system for applications, confirming what Boomtown wrote earlier today. Five to ten top tier apps, which have proven themselves trustworthy and which create as good or...
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | yesterday
... first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time. The companies are now in final negotiations according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before it closes. And while the major deal points have...
ShoeMoney (Free subscription) | yesterday
... We first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time. The companies are now in final negotiations according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before it closes. And while the major deal points have been...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... We first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time. The companies are now in final negotiations according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before it closes. And while the major deal points have been...
Unfortune (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... We first wrote about the Google-Digg negotiations in March. Despite a vigorous denial by Digg CEO Jay Adelson the negotiations continued, although Google’s Marissa Mayer reportedly cooled on the company for a period of time. The companies are now in final negotiations according to our sources, although it could be a couple of weeks before it closes. And while the major deal points have been...
