"We're announcing a major expansion effort -- the largest we've undergone in our history," declared Digg CEO Jay Adelson in a blog post. "With a new round of funding, we're accelerating many of the programs that we've been working on over the past several months, including investments in infrastructure, new feature development, international expansion, and hiring all the people we need to get there."
Digg plans to ramp up its hiring, going from 75 employees today to about 150 by December 2009. The company's new staff will help accelerate Digg product and feature deployment and provide more diverse ways to package the 16,000 stories that users submit to the site daily.
The company plans to move to a new headquarters in San Francisco that will have three times as much floor space as its current location. It will also be investing in brand and market development programs and publisher tools.
In the past year, Digg has seen its daily traffic count double to 30 million unique visitors every month.
Adelson says that almost half of this traffic is coming from outside the United States. In response, Digg plans to enhance its international appeal by launching versions of the site in other languages.
In March, rumors surfaced that Google and Microsoft were both bidding to buy Digg. Adelson promptly denied those reports. In June and July, Google was again said to be close to acquiring Digg. It hasn't happened so far.
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