On Friday, Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters. The app, which is in alpha testing, provides a first look at the direction the ...

Digg was divvied up and sold in 2012, with many of its assets and patents acquired by LinkedIn. Reddit, which launched in 2005 and was co-founded by Ohanian, took a similar approach to let users ...

Digg Returns: Digital Platform Relaunching in Bid to Bring “Good Vibes” Back to Social Media. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Digg founder Kevin Rose are backing the deal, with the new ...

With Digg, the founders want to create a new community focused on serving real people, not AI or bots, they said. Alexis Ohanian. Image Credits:WSJ's Future of Everything conference ...

Digg's collapse has become a cautionary tale for so-called Web 2.0 companies in Silicon Valley, even the current crop of superstars, like Facebook and Twitter.

Now, Digg is making a comeback. Rose will be its chair, Mezzell its CEO, and Ohanian an adviser. (Both Rose and Ohanian are ...

Digg is getting another reboot with two of the most prominent names of the Web 2.0 era leading the charge. Founder Kevin Rose has bought it back for an undisclosed sum.

When in April, Google announced it planned to shut down Google Reader on July 1, it was almost not even surprising that on the very same day Digg replied: Don’t sweat it. We’ve got this. This ...

The Digg executives Keval Desai, left, and Chas Edwards, discussing the recent redesign of the site. Digg is aiming to regain buzz by transforming itself into an alternative social network.

Digg’s return to the modern internet is one step closer with the launch of an “early access” group called Groundbreakers. For a one-off $5 fee you can claim your username before someone ...

Alexis Ohanian, left, a founder of Reddit, and Kevin Rose, who founded Digg, in Los Angeles. The two have teamed up to revive Digg, which was popular in the Web 2.0 era.

In 2012, Digg's brand and website were acquired by tech incubator Betaworks for about $500,000. Reddit has continued its ascent, reporting nearly 102 million daily active users at the end of the ...