Digg sold to Betaworks for paltry $500,000: Report
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New York tech incubator Betaworks bought the once-powerful aggregation news site Digg on Thursday for a measly $500,000 -- loose change compared to the $45 million the site raised from investors, according to published reports.
Betawork will acquire the remaining brand assets, website and technology, and Digg eventually will become a part of News.me, a similar site with more social media integration, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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New York tech incubator Betaworks bought the once-powerful aggregation news site Digg on Thursday for a measly $500,000 -- loose change compared to the $45 million the site raised from investors, according to published reports.
Betawork will acquire the remaining brand assets, website and technology, and Digg eventually will become a part of News.me, a similar site with more social media integration, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Digg was launched in 2004 by then 27-year-old Kevin Rose.
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