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Last week, we floated the rutemor that Digg might buy CoRank, a website which helps companies build their own versions of the popular website where users vote on and discuss news headlines. CoRank CEO Rogelio Bernal Andreo issued a flat denial to TechCrunch that the companies had held talks. But now we hear Andreo has been furiously backpedaling on that claim. Why? Shortly after Andreo talked to TechCrunch, but before the story ran, talks between the companies started.