Week in review: New Digg CEO apologizes

Here’s our roundup of the week’s big stories in tech business news. First, the most popular posts VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

New Digg CEO apologizes to site’s fans — About six weeks after he was hired to be the new chief executive of news aggregator Digg.com, Matt Williams greeted community members for the first time, apologized for the site’s botched attempt at a redesign, and announced officially that several old features would be returning.

Angry Birds set to flutter onto Android phones — Angry Birds broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in the past 10 months, selling more than 7 million copies. Soon, it will be available on phones running Google Android software.

How Microsoft might win the mobile-phone battle after all — Peter Yared, vice president of Webtrends, looks at the history of the Xbox to see why Microsoft might still be a contender in the smartphone industry.

Will the Verizon iPhone be able to handle voice and data at the same time? — Here’s the problem with bringing the iPhone to Verizon’s network: Apple’s much-advertised ability to browse the Web, and to use other apps, while on a phone call is technically impossible with Verizon’s CDMA network. But that is due to change next year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

iPhone apps now more popular than major TV shows and sports broadcasts — Is Apple’s iPhone the next American Idol?

And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:

The little guy loses: Facebook, Twitter charge $2,500-plus for stock sales — Want a piece of Facebook, Twitter, or Zynga? It’ll cost you even more than you think.

Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company — Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview Tuesday that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA because of a shared vision to build the world’s top social mobile gaming company.

Serendipity meets discovery with Tumbl.in and FriendShuffle — Tumbl.in, a project hatched in a weekend of coding, and FriendShuffle, a similarly scrappy website launch, have been making waves recently for their simple but compelling takes on content discovery on social networks.

CarWoo unveils a better way to buy a car — As the influence of the Internet creeps into more and more of our lives, the car-buying process is one of the few areas that remains untouched — at least, that’s what Tommy McClung, cofounder and chief executive of CarWoo, argues. McClung aims to change that.