Acccording to comScore unique visitors on Yahoo! Buzz surpassed Digg in April for the first time. Buzz got nearly 7 million U.S. unique visitors which is 74% growth over March.
Buzz, is a social news service by Yahoo! that is similar to Digg. These site can drive a large amount of traffic and comments to websites.
The following graph shows that, for the first time, Buzz’s traffic surpassing Digg’s in unique visitors per month.
What’s more, about 51% of Yahoo! Buzz users are More»

Labels: digg.com, web marketing, Yahoo

DIGG’s Jay Adelson has strongly implied that they are _not_ about to be sold and called the rumors of a Google and Microsoft bidding war completely unfounded.
Also, we hear from Digg Co-founder Owen Byrne that the rumors appear to be false though he noted at his blog that he would not necessarily be in the loop with a sale decision.
Owen even suggested that the rumor of the sale brings into question the credibility of TechCrunch, though I’m guessing TechCrunch had a “good” lead on this story but not necessarily an accurate one. More»

Labels: digg, digg.com, Microsoft

Although Digg has been rumored to be for sale for some time, this time it appears likely to happen. Most reports suggest Google as the most likely Digg buyer with the possibility that Microsoft will also get in on the bidding. Both Google and Microsoft have extremely strong cash positions though they also presumably have many aquisition targets in mind.
Best bet? Digg will be sold to Google for about $200,000,000.
Congratulations will be in order for Kevin Rose and the Digg major holders and investors, but I’d like to know from the key More»

Labels: digg.com, Microsoft