Spanish tech site Techtear is reporting that Digg may have acquired Spanish social voting site Menéame and possibly coRank as well.
A sort of translation of what Techtear is saying
…Then we found out that people Digg approached Allen & Company, a private investment firm. At that time it was believed that Digg was organizing a possible sale, but Kevin Rose replied “we never comment on acquisitions.” Nobody understood it referred to the acquisition of Menéame, and not the sale itself Digg.
Rumors of an acquisition of coRank first surfaced in November, when Co-rank denied takeover talks. We learned since that following these rumors (and subsequent denial) coRank was approached by two possible buyers, one of whom may have been Digg.
On the Menéame side we don’t have a lot of information aside from Techtear’s report and a post by Enrique Dans talking about a sale and pointing to the Meneame blog that talks about a big announcement before the end of the year. Making it harder still: Google Translate translates Menéame to Reddit (here and here). More if and when we get it.
Update: coRank’s CEO has contacted us and said that “while there might be some deal in the works…Digg is not involved.”
I am surprised at how Digg has become a sleeping giant now capable of swallowing it’s way to greater greatness! Wow… if it’s true that is, it’s quite a shift!
Jon
im very sorprise too..
i hope you continue informing about this stuff
Is not true. Read what Ricardo Galli (owner of Menéame) say to Mashable. (http://mashable...ame-and-corank/)
Digg is not adquiring Menéame.
#3 – i don’t have to. I can read the update right here, thanks.
btw galli is not THE OWNER of meneame. he’s the co-founder and owns about 33% if my calculations are correct.
sage: Yes, that’s correct. Martin Varsavsky -FON founder- owns another 33% and Benjamà Villoslada the other 33%.
Rumor is true, they are being bankrolled by me too!
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It would seem strange for Digg to acquire Meneame, when Pligg is actively pursuing a buyer and already in English.
My opinion digg is the fastest social book marking site that last month had over 48 million views thats big an i heard they were trying to sell digg for 300million dollars I would never sell a site like that until it is like the value of facebook 15 million so I have a couple article on social book marking on my site
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@ #4
Sounds like you should get some dentures if you need someone to chew your food before you can eat it.
Anyway even the rumor comes true, it will be better for the users as digg will be growing more technologically.
A “company” that has yet to make a dime, is in the rumor mill of acquiring other companies… are we playing with monopoly money here?
Digg needs to get bought, not buy things.
the words “from” (people from Digg) and “of” (sale itself ____ Digg) would greatly help in the translation
gracias
ACTUALIZACIÓN: Desmentido el interés actual de Digg. Aunque efectivamente existió hace poco un interés por parte de la empresa y llegaron a celebrarse varias reuniones con sus responsables, la operación actual, como Ricardo y Rogelio se han visto obligados a desmentir rápidamente ante el ruido generado en la blogosfera internacional (Mashable, TechCrunch en inglés y francés, TechTalkBlog…) y en la prensa nacional, ya no tiene como protagonista a Digg. Sin embargo, existe una operación, se está trabajando para poder anunciarla lo antes posible, y resultará sumamente relevante de cara al futuro inmediato del subsector de los filtros sociales.
Great news.
I’m all for Digg.
I even like the Digg song
It’s a catchy one, I’ve been humming it for the past two days..
You can follow all the post in spanish blogs in http://www.blindice.com/#2308 (the Spanish Techmeme).
Hey Michael, I’ve got the scoop you’ve been looking for. Sources very close to Digg inform me that the company is in talks with domin.os to acquire two large pepperoni and black olive pizzas, possibly as soon as lunch today.
Great news.
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April Fools’ day is on december 28 in Spain. You are tricked. meneame.net is the worst, and more asshole-friendly social net in Spain.
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Duh…Meneame is a Digg clone – the founders claim there are differences, but in essence, they took the source code and tweaked it a bit, painted it orange, and voila! The only reason Digg would buy Meneame is for spanish-speaking traffic, but otherwise, it’s worthless. Oh, and full of total crap, the day when the Madrid bombings happened, the top news story had something to do with testicles.
#22 – They took Digg’s code? From where?