Palo Alto, Calif. - Topix, a provider of online forums and news article commenting tools, announced on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to provide its services for MediaNews Group, a publisher of 61 daily newspapers including the San Jose Mercury News. Topix said that since its launch less than two years ago, more than 3 million people have posted over 18 million comments on its service, which averages 80,000 comments a day.

Steve Sordello, who last week resigned as the CFO of Alviso-based TiVo, on Tuesday was named the new CFO of Mountain View-based LinkedIn, operator of an online business network that includes more than 11 million professionals.
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Palo Alto, Calif. - News aggregator Topix announced on Monday a redesign of its site and a new focus on citizen journalism. The site, which also changed its domain from .net to .com, will now allow anyone to submit local news online or via cell phones, or become local news editors who will combine user-generated submissions with Topix's locally categorized news from 50,000 traditional news and blog sources. Founded in 2004, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Topix claims about 10 million monthly unique visitors.