Technorati, the blog search engine has acquired PersonalBee a news discovery engine. PersonalBee allows users which they call beekepers to make public or private pages on their news topics of interest. The news pages or personal beehives look like digg pages, where other members can vote on the stories.

From Technorati weblog

Personal Bee is going to add some very powerful and engaging social publishing features to Technorati.com. And, the Bee platform will help expand Technorati’s Conversational Marketing System, our product that helps brands to engage their audience and enter the global conversation.