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(PRESS RELEASE – JANUARY 18, 2010) – MerchantCircle, the largest social network of local business owners, today announced that it has signed its millionth merchant to the local business network, just three and a half years after the company’s launch.

Out of the estimated 15 million local merchants in the U.S. today, more than one million have claimed their listings and have accessed MerchantCircle’s suite of free and premium tools to reach local consumers online.

Los Altos, California (PRESS RELEASE - July 2, 2009) – A new study by Quantcast ranks MerchantCircle the nation’s fifth largest local directory site and Top 160 site in the U.S. overall (#151).

MerchantCircle, currently, is the largest and fastest growing social network of local business owners. Over a one year period, traffic to the MerchantCircle site has nearly doubled with unique visitors increasing by a factor of 2.5X.

Los Altos, CA (August 6, 2008)- MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners in the nation with 550,000 members, today announces its “Instant Website” service, the web’s easiest-to-use website and custom domain name offering.

Local business owners will be able to select a customized web address through the MerchantCircle platform and instantly create a website under that domain name.