Rumor Roundup: NYC Techies Hit the TV Circuit and Betaworks Has Its Own American Idol Ready for their close up This week was the week NYC techies flocked to the TV circuit for their 15 minutes. By The Editors
Betaworks Is Launching Something New This Week, But It’s Not the Reader Replacement Stand down, Instapaper fanatics: Betaworks has no plans to shut the service down. That was the first question out of By Kelly Faircloth
Startup News: Ev Williams Hires a Literary Darling and Branch Finally Lets You Bro Out Power Literary Hire: Twitter cofounder Ev Williams’s new publishing tool, Medium, just added an impressive member to its team. Kate By Myles Tanzer
Betaworks Team Announces Ambitious Goal: Rebuild Digg From the Ground Up. In Six Weeks. By Jessica Roy
Betaworks Acquires Digg, John Borthwick Promises, ‘We Are Reverting Digg to a Startup’ By Nitasha Tiku and Kelly Faircloth
Branch Joins Obvious Corp, Picks Up $2 M. from Lerer Ventures and SV Angel, and Heads East to Betaworks By Nitasha Tiku
Betaworks Acquires Vibe, the Anonymous Twitter Alernative Popularized During Occupy Wall Street By Nitasha Tiku