Betaworks, Owner of Digg, Acquires Instapaper

Betaworks, which made a splash with its purchase of Digg last July, has made another, smaller splash today with its acquisition of the reading app Instapaper.

Betaworks, which made a splash with its purchase of Digg last July, has made another, smaller splash today with its acquisition of the reading app Instapaper.

Instapaper allows users to save Web content they want to read later. Launched in 2008, it was an early example of a clean, reliable app that solved problems unique to mobile computing.

Instapaper developer Marco Arment announced the deal on his blog.

“Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do,” Arment said.

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