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Michael Terpin Michael Terpin (born DATE) is the founder and CEO of Terpin Communications, a holding company consisting of Transform Public Relations and SocialRadius, a social media marketing firm. He is also co-founder of BitAngels, the world's first angel investor network for digital currency startups. Previously, he founded and sold Marketwired (originally Internet Wire), a press release distribution service.

Marketwired
Marketwired was founded as Internet Wire in October 1994 by Terpin and online marketer Michael Shuler in Los Angeles, Calif. It received $17.5 million in venture capital in January 2000. The company changed its name to Market Wire in April 2003 after making a partnership with NASDAQ, where its services would be recommended to listed companies.

In 2006, Marketwired (then known as Marketwire) was acquired by CCNMatthews, a 25-year-old news distribution company in Canada. The company adopted the name Marketwire unilaterally. The company is now majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity,.