News news aggregation site Digg co-founder leaving Ross

Foreign media reports, has worked with base (Ron Gorodetzky) created in 2004 with the American news aggregation site Digg's Kevin Rose (Kevin Rose), has been left from the company, and is creating a yet unnamed start-up companies.

Jay Andrew Olson (Jay Adelson) as Digg CEO in four years after the departure last year. Andrew Wilson in the four months after leaving Ross as Digg interim CEO. Then last August, he handed over the temporary CEO position Matt Williams, former executive Amazon (Matt Williams), by Williams has been in operation Digg.

However, Digg spokesman Erin Walsh (Erin Walsh) e-mail sent to media, Ross has been denied leave from Digg, Digg and claimed since joining Williams as CEO since the role of Rose in the company has not changed . The spokesman said: "Matt Williams took office six months ago Digg CEO, and founder Kevin Rose still members of the Board as to remain in the company, nothing happens."

Last September, leading technology blog site TechCrunch founder Michael Harrington Miguel (Michael Arrington), at a meeting asked Ross about the next six months still left in Digg, the Rose is only given a vague answer: " Over time, you will know. "

In addition to Digg, the Rose is also co-founded with others, Pownce, Six Apart, but the company was acquired shortly thereafter closed. Ross also made an investment in some companies and hold shares of these companies, these companies including Twitter, Gowalla, Foursquare, Ngmoco, Square, Zynga, and Facebook.

Digg has been a takeover target. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (Al Gore) has proposed a 1 billion acquisition of Digg, so Digg's become an integral part of the Current Media. Google has been raised in 2008 to 2 billion acquisition of Digg, Google allegedly abandoned in the final stages of the acquisition. At that time, Microsoft and other mass media companies have two unknown interested in buying Digg.
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