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Seven-year-old media company Digg inc. will be acquired by Betaworks, a technology-investment company based in New York.

It's not looking good for Digg, the once popular social news aggregator portal, as the company's tech team heads off for The Washington Post.

The company's general manager is leading the Time 100 poll. Its users take real-world action for charitable causes. It also attracts more than 2 billion pageviews monthly. Find out why reddit will continue to be one of the most influential forces online.

At yesterday's f8 developer conference, Facebook announced a number of new features. Among them, a new "Like" button is slated to appear on billions of pages across the Web. Digg, Stumbleupon and just about everyone else: Watch out.

Neither site has managed to turn a profit; both are relying on investors to keep growing their technologies, while they try to produce a profitable business model. Will Twitter’s success continue, and will Digg continue to flat line? Who will pay?

Are algorithms the way to go, or is human participation the key to a successful news-aggregation site? Are there other flaws in the Google News system, which hinder its success as well? Maybe Digg knows something that Google doesn’t.

TechCrunch is reporting Google is negotiating a deal to buy Digg.com for $200 million. The deal is expected to be finalized within two weeks.

Google has set up an experiment that will make the users vote for the best search results and make them appear at the top of the page. Users can comment and review the search results.

Searching for your fave sites can be time-consuming, but StumbleUpon has found one of the best ways to list recommended sites, photos and videos. The Web discovery tool hasn't stoped improving its technology, founder Garrett Camp told DigitalJournal.com.

How has reading the news changed in this digital era of Digg and other recommendation-oriented sites? Are traditional media obsolete? These were some of the questions posed to a panel of Web entrepreneurs at Toronto's new media conference, mesh.