San Francisco - Pownce, a microblogging and file-sharing service created by Digg founder Kevin Rose, announced on Monday that it has been acquired by Six Apart, developers of blogging tools including Vox, Movable Type and TypePad, for an undisclosed sum.

San Francisco - Online social network Facebook has introduced Facebook Connect, which allows outside websites and applications to share data back and forth. The company launched the new feature with 24 partners, including Digg, Movable Type creators Six Apart and Citysearch. The feature allows, for instance, Facebook users to sign in to Digg with their Facebook account authentication, and to have news stories they select via Digg, or comments they leave on Movable Type blogs to show up in their Facebook news feeds.

San Francisco - Six Apart, the company behind blog publishing services TypePad, Movable Type and Vox, announced on Monday that it has acquired Apperceptive, a New York-based provider of social media consulting and development services.

San Francisco - Six Apart, a provider of blogging software and services and operator of the LiveJournal network of blogs, has announced a sale of LiveJournal to Russian media firm SUP. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.