American Towns, your online “public square”

American Towns, your online “public square”

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You may have never hard of American Towns, a company building an online “public square” for every town in the United States.

It has received a $3.3 million round of capital to realize that goal.

The financing comes from Idearc Media, the publisher of the Verizon Yellow Pages and owner of the local search engine, Superpages.com.

Fairfield, Conn.-based American Towns is one of a number of companies in the “hyperlocal” market — sites that target small geographic regions…. Continue Reading