Topix.net news aggregator received additional investments from its own shareholders.
Publications Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy, which own most of the shares of the web resource (33.7%, 33.7% and 11.9% respectively), decided to invest another $ 15 million in it. According to Chris Tolles, vice president of sales and marketing at Topix, the money will be spent on trading and hiring staff (over the next year the company’s staff of only 25 will be doubled).
Founded in 2002, Topix.net not only collects news from the Internet, but also distributes them into categories. In addition, this year, users of the resource have the opportunity to publish comments on the notes selected by the aggregator,
writes News.com .