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Company Overview of Digg Inc.
Company Overview
Digg Inc. operates a Website that enables users to discover and share content online. The company covers topics, such as business, entertainment, gaming, lifestyle, politics, science, sports, technology, and world news. It also offers an integrated API for developing applications to developers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 12, 2012, Digg Inc. operates as a subsidiary of News.me Inc.
135 Mississippi Street
3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94107-2536
United States
Founded in 2004
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Digg Inc. Key Developments
Digg Inc. is in talks to be sold to The Washington Post Company, Next Web reported. CNet reported that Digg and Washington Post declined to comment on the report.
OnePatont Software Ltd. has announced that it has sent a U.S. patent 7,991,764 infringement notice to Facebook and many other companies to bring to their attention that they are infringing patented core technology by using it in their websites, networks, applications, services, devices, platforms and operating systems. U.S. Patent 7,991,764 has been cited at Facebook's Dynamic News Feed, USA Patent No. 7,669,123 and Patent No. 7,827,208 at USPTO. The companies to whom OnePatont has sent notice, along with claim chart, claim mapping & support and claim analysis, are Facebook (News Feed), Twitter (Activity Tab), YouTube (Recent Activity), MySpace (Friend Subscriptions & Activity Stream), LinkedIn (Network Updates), Google Buzz (Updates in real time), Yahoo - Flicker (Recent Activity Feed), Microsoft - Windows Live (Web Activity), Microsoft - MSN (Activity Streams from Windows Live, Facebook and Twitter), Yahoo (Updates), Skype (Facebook news Feed Integration), Bebo (Lifestreaming), Last.fm (People listening right now), Ning (Latest Activity Feature), Salesforce - Chatter (Status Updates), Yelp (Activity Feed), Yammer (Activity Stream), Google - Orkut (My Updates), Hi5 (Activity Stream), Friendfeed (Activity From many sources), Groupon (My Deal Feed), AOL (Lifestream), Pandora (Activity), Amazon (Recent Activity), Microsoft - Bing (Bing Bar toolbar), Answers.com (Recent Site Activity), IBM (Lotus Connections), RIM - Blackberry (Share Facebook News Feed Items), Socialcast, Apple (Recent Activity), Nokia (Facebook Integration), Digg (Activity Streams), Sony Ericsson (Facebook News Feed Integration), HTC (Facebook News Feed Integration), HP (Touchpad - Facebook News Feed Integration), Microsoft - Windows Phone People Hub (Facebook News Feed Integration), LG (Facebook for LG - Facebook News Feed Integration), HP - Palm (Facebook for HP WebOS - Facebook News Feed Integration), Samsung (Facebook News Feed Integration), eBay (Facebook News Feed Integration with Share feature), Motorola - MOTOBLUR (Facebook News Feed Integration), LivingSocial (Facebook News Feed integration via Share Feature), NewsGator (Activity Streams), Yammer (My Feed and Activity Streams), Salesforce - Chatter (Real time feed of activity - Activity Streams), Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (My News Feed - Activity Streams), Cisco Quad (Activities Streams), SAP StreamWork (Activity Streams), Zyanga (Games integration with Facebook News Feed), EA (Games integration with Facebook News Feed), RootMusic (Integration with Facebook News Feed), Playdom (Games integration with Facebook News Feed). The patented technology is used in the monitoring, logging, recording and storing of each user's activities and provides auto-generated activity information to connected users which enable receiving users to communicate, collaborate and participate in the source user's activity in a dynamic, integrated, inline and unified manner.
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