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0	CrowdGather raises $7.85M to roll-up the Web’s forums CrowdGather, a company that says it owns more than 65,000 online forums, has just completed $7.85 million in new funding through a private placement.... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Mar 4, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Community news site Topix has a future in politics When you’ve built what is apparently the largest “local forum” on the Internet, how do you get even bigger? Chris Tolles, the chief executive of news... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Jan 28, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Online news gatherer Topix aims for election-ad dollars With its launch of Election 2010: Citizen Sound-Off today, online news aggregator Topix is now the only website to couple localized voter... Source: venturebeat.com Date: Oct 13, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Appstores.com: The Platform That Wants To Run Your Niche App Store App discoverability is one of the biggest problems facing mobile publishers these days. That is especially true for HTML5 developers publishing apps... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jan 19, 2012 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Survey: 88% of U.S. Social Media Users Are Registered Voters [Infographic] The United States is having an election next week and the political machine is just getting warmed up for what is certain to be a very contentious... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Nov 2, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	What you need to know - 07/29/11 Why Groupon will succeed; Twitter rolling out Promoted Tweets in the stream On June 28, the day Google+ was released as a public beta, shares sat at... Source: vator.tv Date: Jul 29, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Faith Merino's The Deal - Groupon's model: Irrational, but it works Why Topix CEO Chris Tolles thinks Groupon will succeed despite the quirkiness of its business model It’s been dark times for Groupon ever since the... Source: vator.tv Date: Jul 29, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Groupon Changes Privacy Policy, Starts Tracking User Location Daily deals service Groupon made updates to its terms of service and privacy statement last weekend to reflect new ways the company collects and... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jul 11, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Be The Mark In Blekko’s 3 Engine Monte Search engine Blekko is pretty excited about their new Zorro launch that I just wrote about. All new design, a move from red to blue links and a... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jun 21, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Advertisers Ramping Up on Local Spending, Popular News Aggregator Reports Contrary to the beliefs of some Internet entrepreneurs, local news and advertising is not dying. If advertising professionals can be believed,... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Jun 20, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Google News Goes Local On Mobile: Introduces ‘News Near You’ The first thing many of us do in the morning is check for earth shattering news, and Google has just made the quest to find relevant news a little bit... Source: techcrunch.com Date: May 13, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Topix Partners with Blekko To Power Their Search Topix has just partnered with Blekko to power their in-site search functionality. Topix is a very large and well established local news aggregator, so... Source: crenk.com Date: May 11, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Would You Like A Slashtag With That? Blekko Begins Powering Topix Search Topix, the largely under-the-radar platform for local news, information, and influence, has been aggregating local news and community discussions for... Source: techcrunch.com Date: May 4, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Why Have We Let State AGs Become De Facto Internet Regulators? For quite some time we've called attention to the fact that various state Attorneys General have taken it upon themselves to pressure internet... Source: techdirt.com Date: Feb 2, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	One Of The Earliest Computer Viruses Was Really DRM Gone Wrong Author William Gibson has a nice little opinion piece claiming that we've now hit the 25th anniversary of "digital vandalism" in the form of computer... Source: techdirt.com Date: Feb 1, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Yext Heats Up Battle Against Google For Local Ad Dollars Remember when Google launched Tags, a local advertising up-sell aimed at local small businesses? Companies like Yelp and YellowPages certainly do,... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Dec 30, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Yext Organizes The Anti-Google Local Advertising Alliance (Screenshots) Google, as you may have heard, is making a big push into local advertising. It is currently offering $100 million in AdWords credits to new small... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Dec 29, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Topix Launches New Forums iPhone App PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Topix (www.topix.com), the web’s largest platform for local influence, released its latest iPhone app,... Source: businesswire.com Date: Dec 13, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	How to Use Blekko to Rock at Your Job The author of the web's first worm-virus, teamed with a man who dresses as a medieval warrior and goes to battle on the weekends and a woman who... Source: readwriteweb.com Date: Nov 6, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Topix Launches First Online, Nationwide Platform for Local Elections PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Topix launches first online, nationwide platform for local elections. Election 2010: Citizen Sound-Off provides... Source: businesswire.com Date: Oct 20, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0