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Well, I didn’t see that one coming. I guess that will help MU, and it’s always great to see USC lose.

Digg is getting ready to more than double its size. The company has just announced a new round of funding — $28.7 million, to be precise — and along with it, big plans for the future.

The social news giant will be hiring dozens of new people over the coming year, with the goal of having 150 employees by next December (compared to its current staff of 75). The new employees will focus on additional product and features under development for Digg. So far, execs only say those features will include more ways to consume content, “deeper category and topic content views,” and extra options for “discovering and customizing” material …

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The second quarter has come and gone, and while our XBLA download queues have be left decidedly Peggle-free, PopCap's Greg Canessa remains adamant that the addictive puzzler is still on its way. In a recent interview, the PopCap exec blamed the game's tardiness on the addition of further polish and improvements, including 4-player local and online multiplayer over Xbox Live. Goodbye, free time! Read More

Awhile back the New York Times was concerned about the cost of the Iraq War and published some estimates of what else we could have bought with that money. We didn't find that very interesting at the time, but now, while trying to wrap our minds around just how effing huge the $700 billion proposed bailout of Wall Street really is, we decided to revisit that article. Here's what you can buy for less than $700 billion, according to the New York Times. Read More