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Five Plans To Fix Digg's Business Over the first three quarters of 2008, Digg lost $2 million on revenues totaling $6.4 million. That's pathetic--because with 30 million monthly uniques and a raft of publishers surviving on its downstream traffic, Digg shows so much promise. So we decided to do something about it and announced the Fix Digg's Miserable Business Contest. For a prize, we'll ask Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Digg founder Kevin Rose consider our winner as a candidate for Digg's vacant VP of US ad sales post. No promises, but we're pretty sure Jay and Kevin will open our email. Read >

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Advertisement Meg Whitman Quits Boards To Run For Governor As has been long rumored, it looks like Meg will be running for governor of California. Meg today stepped down from the boards of Procter & Gamble (PG), eBay, and Dreamworks Animation, her spokesman tells the WSJ. No hard confirmation yet -- Meg's handlers insist the move is "for personal reasons." But it's hard to imagine what else it could be. Read >

Governance Expert: Apple's Jobs' Disclosure "Dismissive," Insufficient (AAPL) Yale corporate governance expert Stephen Davis thinks Apple (AAPL) should have been more forthright about Steve Jobs' illness. He also describes the tone of the last line of Steve's note today as "dismissive" of shareholders' legitimate right to understand what's going on. Read >

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