Yesterday Betaworks, a technology incubator in New York, said it had acquired the social-media pioneer site Digg. Reportedly, Betaworks paid $500,000 for Digg 's assets, including the site and its technology, and Digg shareholders received equity in a new Betaworks unit that will use those assets, according to a person involved in the deal. That equity was worth something in the "single-digit millions, " this person said. Since the release of Digg v4, dubbed "the new Digg ...

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