GoDaddy
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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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GoDaddy Slips 2.9% After Reporting Q1 Revenue of $376.3M, Strong Q2 Top-Line Projection
GoDaddy reported its first-quarter financial performance today, including a loss of $0.34 per share on revenue of $376.3 million. The street had expected GoDaddy to earn $0.35 per share on revenue of $374.52 million. The firm’s revenue grew 17.5 percent compared to the year-ago period. Read More
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Freelancer.com Acquires Payment Service Provider Escrow.com For $7.5M
Job marketplace Freelancer.com announced today that it has agreed to purchased Escrow.com for $7.5 million in cash. The acquisition was funded by through an placement of $10 million AUD (about $7.8 million) in ordinary shares of Freelancer.com to institutional investors. As its name suggests, Escrow.com provides online escrow services for e-commerce sites by holding payments for goods or… Read More
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GoDaddy Acquires Marketplace Startup Elto To Expand Its Services For Web Pros
Web hosting and web services provider GoDaddy is continuing to expand its resources for small business owners, following its recent IPO. The company has now closed on the acquisition Elto, a San Francisco-based startup which had been offering a marketplace that helped connect business owners and other non-technical people to web developers who could help them establish and improve their… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Shyp’s Fundraising, Microsoft’s Surface 3 And GoDaddy’s Massive IPO
Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek — a special one, as our brand-new reporter Matt Lynley joins us for the first time. We’re incredibly happy to have him on the team and the set. Aside from newkid and myself, Sarah Buhr were on hand to dig into the biggest stories of the week: Shyp’s massive capital raise, Microsoft’s new Surface device and… Read More
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15 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
This week’s tech headlines saw a mega-roundup of April Fool’s Day tech pranks, Jay-Z’s new music streaming service and much more. These were our best stories of the week (3/28-4/3). Read More
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