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| | USATODAY.com - Gannett, Knight Ridder, Tribune invest in Topix.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Topix launched its site just over a year ago, but has 1.4 million monthly users as of February, according to comScore Media Metrix, which measures Internet traffic. |
 | | Topix remains a small company, with just nine employees working above a trophy shop in Palo Alto, Calif. According to its CEO and co-founder Rich Skrenta, Topix became profitable this past December and has about $1 million in annual revenue, mostly from advertising. |
 | | As part of their arrangement with Topix, they will also add links to Topix on their own newspapers' Web sites, and allow Topix to sell online advertising from their sites, Skrenta said. |
| www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-03-23-topix_x.htm (713 words) |
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