NewsBlur is an American

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company based in

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and

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. It runs an online RSS

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service accessible both

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and via a free

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for offline reading. Furthermore, the software powering NewsBlur is available and is published in an open-source application, licensed under the MIT License. Limited access to the service is free for up to 64 sites; unlimited access is available for an annual subscription fee. The company was founded in 2009 by Samuel Clay. In March 2013, following an announcement by

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that they would be shutting down their popular

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news reader service, NewsBlur's subscriber base immediately rose from about 1,500 users to over 60,000.

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