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Quantcast Adds Mobile App Data, Promises A Truly Cross-Platform View In Its Analytics Service

Advertising and measurement company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.quantcast.com">Quantcast</a> is launching a new service today called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.quantcast.com/measurem

Community Site Topix Sees 40 Percent Year-Over-Year Traffic Growth As Political Focus Pays Off

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.topix.com">Topix</a>, a site for locally-focused online discussion that first launched in 2004, has seen significant traffic growth in the past year. According to C

Visa Issues Scuttle Topix’s Acquisition Of Taploid, Gossip App Will Now Shut Down Amid Funding Crunch

It's a tough day for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thetaploid.com/">The Taploid</a> and its plucky founder Redg Snodgrass. H1-B visa issues for the startup's UK team soured a buyout by city foru

Would You Like A Slashtag With That? Blekko Begins Powering Topix Search

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/blekko-logo.jpg" /><a href="http://www.topix.com/">Topix</a>, the largely under-the-radar platform for local news, information, and influence,

When Attorneys General Attack

<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0003/1616/31616v2-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /><em>Earlier this year Topix CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/per

Topix Agrees To Drop "Priority Fees" For Reviewing Inappropriate Content

<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/0706/706v1-max-250x250.png' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />The state Attorneys General are busy today. In addition to the Washingto

With 100 Million Comments, Topix Has Quietly Become The Local Watering Hole

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Topix Nabs 6 Content Partners To Become Local Info Hub

Topix, the local news community that allows readers to submit and edit stories, has secured deals with six content providers as it moves to establish itself as a one-stop-shop for local information. T

Look Out Topix – Google Launches Localized News Service

Topix has made a name by aggregating tens of thousands of local news sources and aggregating them online (they also like citizen journalists). It was only a matter of time before Google expanded their

Topix CEO Steps Down; VP Chris Tolles Takes Spot

This is a quick post because I’m getting on a plane to Europe, but fast-growing news site Topix has a new CEO. Rich Skrenta has stepped down, and VP Marketing Chris Tolles has taken his position

Topix Aims For Citizen Journalists

News site Topix.net will relaunch this evening under their newly acquired domain name Topix.com. They are also launching a new product that will allow readers to write and edit local news articles dir

Topix Raises $15m More for Local News Search

News search engine Topix.net has announced that has taken $15 million in additional funding from three large media companies, Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy. The company raised a round about 18 months

Topix.net finally usable after relaunch

Topix.net, possibly the most feature rich news search engine online already, has relaunched and looks very cool. The Topix index of 50,000 news sources is 10 times larger than the Google News index an

Topix Does What Yahoo Wouldn't

Topix.net added 15,000 top blogs into its news engine today. Unlike Yahoo, which took the step of integrating blog search results into the news area but pushed them off to the side, Topix has integrat