Digital Media Wire reports that Fwix - an aggregator of hyperlocal news - has raised $2.75M from BlueRun ventures. Fwix aggregates content from blogs and other sources, organizes them by city and provides a simple news reading experience. There are some community features on the site, but given the simplicity of the UX their major value has to be in the breadth of coverage. They claim content for 85 cities.
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