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- Local Newswire Fwix Raises First Round
- Fwix, a hyperlocal newswire launching with sites for 72 cites on Monday, has raised an undisclosed first round from BlueRun Ventures. The San Francisco company was founded last November by 22-year-old CEO Darian Shirazi, a former engineer at Facebook and eBay. Aside from the first round, a Fwix rep...
- External links 2009-08-31
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- Hyperlocal Newswire Fwix Launches In 12 UK Cities; But Is It Local Enough?
- As local enthusiasts, laid-off journalists and established news publishers try to replace disappearing local newspapers with community-specific websites, Darian Shirazi, founder of US real-time local news aggregator Fwix, thinks he can help.Fwix runs 80 US city-based newsfeeds bringing together pro-amateur blogs and professional content and reaches some nine million...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Fwix Discloses $2.75 million Funding Round; Launches Open Newswire Platform
- Hyperlocal newswire Fwix says it raised $2.75 million in a first round from BlueRun Ventures. We reported on Fwix’s official launch last month, but at the time, the company didn’t disclose the amount of its funding. In conjunction with the announcement, the San Francisco-based startup is opening its API...
- External links 2009-09-17
- Got an iPhone? With Fwix, Now You Can Be a Reporter
- Fwix, a website for local news, aims to be a "real-time local newswire" for your hometown. Offering a combination of traditional content pulled from newspapers and blogs along with items submitted by citizen journalists, the site reads more like a location-based lifestream than a typical news site. Key to the...
- News items 2009-08-31
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