Digg is on the brink of major expansion, with Highland Capital Partners leading a pack of investors chipping in to the tune of 428.7 million in funding.
The investments plus the revenue to date will be used to significantly grow the Digg team, undertake massive new hiring and move the offices uptown to swanky new digs in San Fran.
Focus will be concentrated on foreign interests and language compatibility, as half of Digg’s 30 million users are outside the US, so international expansion is highly important.
The new and improved Digg site will include more ways to personalize, deeper category and topic content views, and an enhanced all around experience. Discovering and organizing content will be simpler, and there will be multiple new features based on feedback from users.
Looking forward to the upgraded Digg… oh, yes, and today’s top story – the death of Paul Newman, at age 83.