StumbleUpon sold back to founders by eBay
US based online auction industry giant eBay has now sold their service StumbleUpon back to the founders of the company.
eBay had acquired StumbleUpon around two years ago for $75 million.
Apparently, they failed to gain much from this service and decided to get rid of it.
The company said [...]

DiggBar launched with tons of features
Social bookmarking service Digg has launched their latest tool named DiggBar.
DiggBar is designed to keep their users on the Digg service while letting them third party content featured on the site.
It is also designed to provide functionality provided by rival networks like StumbleUpon.
In addition, it also provides [...]

Digg working on a toolbar to take on StumbleUpon!
TechCrunch has reported that social bookmarking service Digg is working on a browser toolbar to take on StumbleUpon.
This toolbar can either be web based or a separate application.
It would have controls to Digg or Bury the webpage currently opened. It would of course also display the [...]

StumbleUpon now has 7 million users
Social discovery network StumbleUpon is growing at an impressive pace.
The service now has 7 million users.
StumbleUpon enables a web user to install a toolbar in his web browser. He gets a button which takes the user to random websites on the web related to his picked topics.
Users then [...]

StumbleUpon launches discovery engine
StumbleUpon has announced the launch of some new features which further enhances the usability of the service.
The company has now made available their discovery engine service which enables the user to search the internet for specific targets.
The service delivers the websites which are relevant to the interests of the user.
StumbleUpon general [...]