GoDaddy
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GoDaddy launches SmartLine to give businesses a second mobile phone number
GoDaddy may be best known for its web domain registry (a business that’s been in the headlines recently), but it’s also moving into the voice and telephone business, starting with last year’s acquisition of FreedomVoice. Today the company is launching a new app called SmartLine, aimed at addressing a basic need of small businesses — more and more of them (86 percent… Read More
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Crunch Report | SpaceX Launches and Recovers another Rocket
SpaceX launches and recovers another rocket, GoDaddy tells Daily Stormer to find a new domain provider, Amazon refunds fake eclipse glasses and OpenAI bot beats masters of Dota 2. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Google drops domain hosting for infamous neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer
After GoDaddy told the Daily Stormer to get lost, the neo-Nazi news site chose Google as a new home for its controversial domain. Now, Google too has given the site the boot. Read More
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GoDaddy tells white supremacist site Daily Stormer to find a new domain provider
White supremacist site Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy. In a tweet, the company said “We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service.” Read More
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GoDaddy doubles down on ‘The Internet’ in a marketing collaboration with Onion Labs
Good news for fans of GoDaddy’s Easter Egg-filled Super Bowl ad: The company has launched an entire campaign around the ad’s star, “The Internet.” Read More
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GoDaddy’s new site builder offers templates for 1,500 industries
Drag and drop website building platforms like Squarespace and Wix aren’t necessarily the most popular tools in the tech community. But the reality is that these sites are how the majority of internet users, who aren’t necessarily technically savvy, can create and maintain a web presence for themselves or their business. So it’s actually a pretty important industry. Read More
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GoDaddy made an app for entrepreneurs to get feedback on their startup ideas
While most associate GoDaddy with domains, the company has become an integral part of supporting small businesses around the world. Whether this is by providing email hosting, website creation, or SEO services, the site is often the first stop for someone thinking about starting a small business online. And interestingly enough, the company even said that customers will frequently… Read More
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Media Temple launches new enterprise WordPress solution hosted on AWS
Media Temple is launching a new enterprise-grade WordPress hosting solution today. That would be interesting by itself, but the twist here is that the company, which is owned by GoDaddy, is hosting this service on AWS. With this offering, Media Temple is combining its expertise in running WordPress installs with its (mt) One white-glove customer service offering, CloudTech Premier support… Read More
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GoDaddy CTO and cloud VP heads to Google
GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing, according to a regulatory filing. Elissa Murphy will be leaving the company later in May. Her departure comes as GoDaddy has begun building out cloud infrastructure, helping it evolve from a simple hosting service to something more robust. These kinds… Read More
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GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps to build, test and scale cloud services
GoDaddy, the web hosting and domain registration company that went public last year, is adding new cloud services to grow the revenues it makes from the 14 million small businesses that make up the majority of its customer base. Today it’s taking the wraps off Cloud Servers and Cloud Applications — Amazon-style features that will let companies build, test and scale cloud… Read More
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2015 IPO Scorecard: How Box, Square, Fitbit And Others Stacked Up
2015 was not a good year for IPOs. In fact, it was the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009, with more and more startups opting to remain private longer. Stock market swings stemming from an oil crisis and a delayed interest rate decision meant that some companies in the pipeline decided to postpone their IPO until 2016. “Investors in the market were looking… Read More
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OMG LOL SSL FUD
Bad enough when some scrappy little startup comes to town and disrupts your profit margins into oblivion. Even worse–to any right-thinking capitalist–when a motley crew of idealistic do-gooders sneaks into your barn and sets one of your cash cows free. But what can companies do when faced with this sad and eternal truth: why buy your cow when they can get its SSL certificates for free? Read More
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A Square Pop, And A Drop
Square’s IPO came in hot, bouncing more than 40 percent in its first day of trading. Priced conservatively, the offering did what all IPOs must do to set a positive narrative: rise. In the ensuing days of trading, Square has slipped. Today, as TechCrunch reported, shares in Square fell for the third consecutive session. A good first day, it seems, does not a good first week make. Read More
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GoDaddy Reports Q3 Earnings Beat On Revenue of $411M, Stock Jumps 7%
GoDaddy just released its Q3 2015 earnings report, showing GAAP revenue of $411 million and a loss of $.04 per share. The street expected the company to report a loss of $.09 per share on revenue of $408 million, while the company itself expected third quarter revenue to be between $405-410 million. After trading flat all day, GDDY is up 7.47 percent after-hours to $29.50. This… Read More
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TC Cribs: GoDaddy’s Playful Sunnyvale Diggs
This week on Cribs we take a ride on over to the Sunnyvale, California, office space for website domain registration service GoDaddy. This is a publicly traded company and the world’s largest domain registrar with over 60 million domains under management. Read More
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GoDaddy Reveals Salary Gender Gap In New Twist On Diversity Reports
A GoDaddy compensation analysis released Wednesday exposed female executives were paid at a rate almost 4 percent less than their male counterparts. The report also found throughout the total company, women are actually compensated .28 percent more than men. But the gap persists for women in technical roles: Women in technical positions make .11 percent less than men, while women in… Read More
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GoDaddy Posts Q2 Profit Miss On Modestly Strong Revenue Of $394.5M, Falls 2%
Update: The company is currently down around 9 percent in after-hours trading. GoDaddy reported its second quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $394.5 million and negative earnings per share of $0.46. The market had expected GoDaddy to report a $0.17 per-share loss, on revenue of $392.94 for the period. The well-known hosting company had predicted in its prior… Read More
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