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Digg Competitor Mixx Takes $2 Million Series B view story
112 votes- Submitted by Brandon
- 5 months ago
- (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02...)
- Became popular 5 months ago
Social voting outfit Mixx has taken $2 million Series B in a round led by existing investor InterSouth Partners. Mixx offers a category ...
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Student wins lottery, leaves school view story
48 votes- Submitted by Syxle
- 7 months ago
- (http://www.reuters.com/article/od...)
- Became popular 7 months ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - A college student withdrew from school after winning the 5 million yuan ($683,000) jackpot in a lottery in China' eastern city of Nanjing, local media reported on Thursday.
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"Dark Knight" To Become Biggest Grossing Movie Ever? view story
56 votes- Submitted by cGt2099
- 25 days ago
- (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily...)
- Became popular 25 days ago
Warner Bros' The Dark Knight continues to power drive the North American box office and grossed a whopping $23.2 million Friday and $28.2 million Saturday from 4,366 theaters. That's down only 65% and 41% respectively from its record-smashing debut
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Kid Collects One Million Pennies For His School view story
36 votes- Submitted by BrettFavre
- 3 months ago
- (http://www.winknews.com/news/weir...)
- Became popular 3 months ago
Ten-year-old Andrew Niemi of Carleton has been collecting pennies since a day after Christmas in 2006. He held fundraisers to reach his goal of 1 million. Niemi finally picked up his last cent in March.
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Chicago Woman Wins $7.9 Million for Rescuing a Police Officer view story
33 votes- Submitted by ClubFemina
- 2 months ago
- (http://www.clubfemina.com/chicago...)
- Became popular 2 months ago
Chicago Woman Wins $7.9 Million for Rescuing a Police Officer
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Google Walks Away From Digg Deal view story
59 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- 26 days ago
- (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07...)
- Became popular 25 days ago
The Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal.
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'Dark Knight' sets opening weekend box office record view story
48 votes- Submitted by CNNReader
- about 1 month ago
- (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/M...)
- Became popular about 1 month ago
A Warner Bros. executive says the Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" has taken in $155.34 million to top "Spider-Man 3" for best opening weekend ever at the box office.
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`Dark Knight' grabs $43.8M more, nears $400M total view story
54 votes- Submitted by cGt2099
- 18 days ago
- (http://www.newsvine.com/_news/200...)
- Became popular 18 days ago
Even an army of the undead could not dislodge Batman from his box-office perch.
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isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents view story
23 votes- Submitted by Syxle
- 5 months ago
- (http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-m...)
- Became popular 5 months ago
The popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt just reached a new milestone, as they now index over 1 million torrents. In total, the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.
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Huge gas cloud will hit Milky Way view story
29 votes- Submitted by Syxle
- 7 months ago
- (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scienc...)
- Became popular 7 months ago
A giant hydrogen gas cloud will create new stars when it hits our galaxy in 20-40 million years' time.

