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Paper.li Owner Gets $2.1 Million in New Funding. The owner of news aggregator Paper.li has some good news of its own to share today: $2.1 million in new funding.

Paper.li Owner Gets $2.1 Million in New Funding

SmallRivers SA, the Swiss creator of Paper.li drew financing from Highland Capital Partners, SoftBank Capital and Endeavour Vision. In conjunction with the financing, SmallRivers got two new members on its board of directors: Dan Nova of Highland and Ronald Fisher of SoftBank. Paper.li creates "custom newspapers" for Twitter and — as of last month — Facebook as well, by culling content based on keywords, usernames and hashtags. Launched last summer, the site currently has 2 million unique visitors, operates in four languages (English, Spanish, German and French) and publishes 140,000 user-created daily newspapers, according to the company.

Jacques Froissant, le Journal. 3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay. Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay.

3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay

These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation.