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Hearst Launches Aggregator Site LMK

Hearst today launched LMK.com, a low-cost Web roundup on topics from college football to reality television. (For the youth-challenged, “LMK” is the texting shorthand for “let me know.”) LMK joins a crowded field of aggregation sites, which cull news and information from across the Web and organize them by topic or in other user-friendly ways. Other aggregators include Topix, Newser and Daylife, and sites like the Daily Beast that combine aggregation with their own content.

News Aggregator Daylife Ties Up With Getty: $4 Million Investment

Daylife, a news aggregator that launched a few years ago with a good deal of hype but has since retreated to the back pages, has landed another investor: Getty Images has bet $4 million on the company, which has raised some $12 million to date.
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