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Topix gets big response locally Once confined to the barbershop or whispered over the backyard fence with a neighbor, small town gossip has become a global roundtable discussion where anyone can proffer an ...

I've been trying to get the time to do reviews of the key panels at the Future of Media Summit, but it's been tough to get.

InfoGroup has announced that its InfoUSA division's US business database of 14 million records has been licensed by Topix.com, a Web news community, for its nationwide local business directory.

As part of the agreement, Topix retrieves infoUSA data through a XML based API that allows searches to be performed in real time on the most current local business database available with infoUSA.

InfoGroup has announced that its InfoUSA division's US business database of 14 million records has been licensed by Topix.com, a Web news community, for its nationwide local business directory.

Take the news story that ran Friday about the Blossom man arrested for alleged child pornography. Had it not been for a blogger tuned to a police scanner we might not have had the story at all. I happened to take a quick look at the blog Thursday morning and found “What is going on in Blossom” as a post topic.

Random thoughts from a Tuesday morning: John McIntyre, who runs the desks at the Baltimore Sun and has taught us on his blog how to tie a tie, fold a pocket handkerchief and make a martini, finds himself the ...

Gannett Co. said Tuesday that, through separate transactions with joint owners Tribune Co. and McClatchy Co., it has acquired full ownership of the retail marketing and database services provider ShopLocal LLC.

The McLean, Va.-based newspaper publishing concern didn't disclose terms of its purchase either of Tribune's 42.5 percent stake in the venture, or of McClatchy's 15 percent.

The two companies remain partners with Gannett in other ventures, including joint holdings in operations such as CareerBuilder, Classified Ventures and Topix.net. Gannett noted that it and closely held Tribune Co. jointly own a network of local entertainment websites known as Metromix.

Information overload. That's the problem that Alerts.com founder Pascal Stolz is looking to solve with a free online service that helps people receive stock quotes, horoscopes, sports scores, gas prices, flight ...

Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, tells me about his business, which is for local news discussions. More than a million users, with more than 125,000 comments a day.

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Mayor Eddie A. Perez and some other Hartford leaders have raised a concern about offensive comments by online readers at www.courant.com . We have listened to their concern and that has led us to focus even ...

The news business has changed dramatically in the last 50 years, since the days of pioneer TV news broadcaster Edward Murrow , who delivered his segments with cigarette in hand and opened and closed his ...