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Automattic Experiments With Selfies App For Android
A couple of days ago, an acquaintance on Twitter pointed out the website for Selfies, a new social app from Automattic, best known as the company behind Wordpress. I found…
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Funding, Investing And The Future Of WordPress
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg today took the stage at Disrupt NY for a wide-ranging chat with our co-editor Alexia Tsotsis. During the conversation, he touched upon everything from raising the…
Automattic Buys Scroll Kit, A Code-Free Website Builder That Once Got Legal Heat From The NYT
WordPress maker Automattic’s acquisition spree to build out its platform continues apace. Today comes news that it has acquired Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that had developed a platform…
Matt Mullenweg Becomes Automattic CEO As Toni Schneider Shifts Focus To New Products
WordPress creator and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg is taking over as CEO of the company, it was announced today. He takes over for Toni Schneider, who has been CEO of…
Automattic Will Finally Stand Up To Bogus DMCA Takedowns
Automattic, the Wordpress hosting company, has long followed the letter of the DMCA in respect to copyright. This means that the company will side with a complainant rather than a…
Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired file-sharing service Cloudup, which launched in beta in June. The acquisition will help Automattic improve two features of WordPress.com in particular: the media library…
Mullenweg Wants WordPress To Power A Majority Of All Websites
Just months after Tiger Global Management paid $50 million for a secondary stake in Automattic, the maker of WordPress.com, the investment management firm has done it again. We learned yesterday…
Automattic Adds New Media Explorer Tool For Quick Twitter, YouTube Embeds In WordPress.com
Automattic, the parent company of the popular publishing platform WordPress.com, has released a new Media Explorer tool so users can add tweets and YouTube videos to their posts straight from the…
Automattic Acqui-Hires Lean Domain Search To Improve Its Domain Registration Service
Matt Mazur’s Lean Domain Search launched on Hacker News in January 2012. Today, Mazur announced that the tool, which makes it easy to find available domain names based on a…
WordPress.com Maker Automattic Sells $50 Million In Secondary Offering To Tiger Global
Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and…
WordPress.com Launches Portfolio Vertical For Photographers, Painters And Designers
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, just announced that it is rolling out a vertical for portfolio sites. This, the company says, is meant to allow photographers, videographers, illustrators, painters,…
Automattic Launches Jetpack 2.0 For Self-Hosted WordPress Sites, Includes Free WP.com Image Offloading, Infinite Scroll & More
Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress content management and blogging platform, just launched Jetpack 2.0, which brings a number of WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress installs. The promise of…
One of the staples of tech news sites is the liveblog — not everyone loves them, but for folks who really care about the latest iPhone launch, a liveblog allows…
Drupal Company Acquires Akismet Competitor Mollom To Kill Spam Dead
Today Acquia, the company co-founded by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert to commercialize the open source content management system, acquired Mollom, a spam filtering service also co-founded by Buytaert. Terms of…
Automattic Debuts Vetted And Featured Third-Party Services For WordPress.com VIP Sites
Automattic is announcing a new feature for large-scale sites hosted in WordPress.com VIP SaaS program (TechCrunch is a VIP publisher)—Featured Partners for third-party integrations. Basically, the program allows companies that…
WordPress.com Introduces WordAds: “You Deserve Better Than AdSense”
Automattic has teamed up with Federated Media to – finally – allow WordPress.com bloggers to make money from online advertising. The project is called WordAds and if you’re on WordPress.com…
Silverton, Automattic Put $1.2M Into WordPress Hosting And Security Service WP Engine
WP Engine, a powerful hosted WordPress platform for existing WordPress.org users, has raised $1.2 million in new funding led by Silverton Partners with angels Eric Ries, Loic Le Meur, Dharmesh…
SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38; Boots All Tenants Including Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, Automattic, True Ventures
A few weeks ago, we heard that the San Francisco Port Authority had red-tagged Pier 38 — putting up warnings that the space was unsafe. This is a big deal…
WordPress.com Gains Support For OAuth2, Dedicated Developer Portal
In a blog post on the WordPress.com blog, Automattic’s Justin Shreve this morning acknowledged his employer’s aspirations to turn WordPress.com into more of a platform than a mere Web-based blogging…
WordPress 3.1 Downloaded Over 15 Million Times In Under 5 Months
The latest stable version of WordPress, 3.1, was first released on 23 February 2011. Now, less than 5 months later, the blogging software has been downloaded over 15 million times…
Automattic Brings Premium Themes To WordPress.com Users
Automattic is announcing a new feature for the 17 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com—premium themes. The blogging platform giant says that commercial themes have been “thriving” for self-hosted WordPress sites,…
Automattic Hits 300 Million Unique Visitors, Roughly $10 Million In Revenue
Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and CEO Toni Schneider were interviewed by our own Alexia Tsotsis at Le Web 10 today. Our live notes (paraphrased): How big is the company right…
WordPress.com Rolls Out "Top Authors" Stats With A Bonus
A couple weeks ago, we noted that Automattic was testing out a new Top Author stat area on the Site Stats page found on WordPress.com blogs. Today, they’ve rolled out…
Want A Coveted VaultPress Account? Try Hosted WordPress Platform WP Engine
When Automattic launched VaultPress, a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites in March, the company was flooded with requests for the new service. Still in…
Leaked Internal Emails Show Microsoft Overstated Windows Live Spaces Numbers
Joe Wilcox at BetaNews has posted a must-read article in the wake of the announcement – made at TechCrunch Disrupt SF – that the Redmond software giant would be transitioning…
Windows Live Outsources Blogging, Migrating 30 Million Users To WordPress.com
Back in 2006, we covered the launch of Windows Live Spaces, a blogging service for Windows Live users. Today the service is headed in a new direction: Microsoft has teamed…
For-Profit Automattic Gives WordPress Trademark To Non-Profit Foundation
“It’s not often you see a for-profit company donate one of their most valuable core assets and give up control,” Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg writes today in a post announcing…
Automattic Opens Up VaultPress, A Safe Place To Back Up Your Blog
Over the past few months, Automattic’s popular blog platform WordPress.com has taken an in-depth look at their blogging ecosystem, and realized that one of the major pain points for the…
WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API
This morning, a blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter API. This means…
Four Years In, You Can Now Subscribe To WordPress.com Blogs By E-mail
You would think that, almost exactly 4 years after opening up to the public, WordPress.com would have a way for people to subscribe to blogs by e-mail, right? You’d be…