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"NowPublic, the social news site, has closed a $10.6 million Series A Financing.  The round was led by Rho Ventures and its affiliate Rho Canada, based in Montreal, with Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund, managed by GrowthWorks Capital Ltd. also participating in this round.  Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund also offered funding as seed investors.\nAnother milestone for the citizen journalist site is the surpassing of 100,000 contributing reported, making it among the largest sites of its kind.  Its reach has taken its service to 140+ countries and 3,600 cities, aiming to tap into crowd wisdom on a global scale.  NowPublic is also expanding its partnership with The AP to offer more publication outlets for those that submit content to the site.\nIn recent NowPublic news, the site has integrated YouTube video searching tools to better enhance articles created by site contributers."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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