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WordPress's Matt Mullenweg Speaks!
This week, I had lunch with one of the nicest young Web entrepreneurs around the scene, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg. We use a custom WordPress.com installation for this site, which has worked out...
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WordCamp 2008 San Francisco
The third annual WordCamp San Francisco was held this weekend, bringing together WordPress users and developers to discuss the past, present and future of their favorite Web publishing platform. Since...
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Kara Visits Burda's DLD Luncheon in Silicon Valley!
Yesterday, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg and I jumped into the BoomTownMini and took a road trip down the lovely 280 to Palo Alto’s MacArthur Park restaurant for a lunch thrown by Germany’s Hubert...
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AOL Readies Board Picks for Spinoff–While Holding Off Search Suitors (Plus,...
According to sources close to the situation, AOL has been busy selecting the board for the company, which is still set to spin itself off by year’s end–even as it slows down a decision on a new search...
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The Start Project Gets Start-Up Stars as Advisers, Including Stone, Sacca,...
A new Silicon Valley business incubator called The Start Project has recruited a high-profile group of entrepreneurs as advisers, which it announced today on its Web site. Twitter co-founder Biz...
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Real-Time Web Analytics Start-Up Chartbeat Tallies Up More Investors
Chartbeat, the real-time Web-publishing analytics service, has added a few more investors to its previously announced $3 million funding round. Joining Index Ventures et al are: Automattic founder Matt...
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Stealthy Start-Up Sponge Builds Community Q&A for Companies
Q&A is a buzzy tech topic these days–see Twitter’s Fluther deal yesterday (though Twitter didn’t acquire the Fluther Q&A product, only its personnel)–but here’s a start-up trying to stay out of...
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WordPress.com Suffers Security Breach
Blogging host Automattic says it has suffered a security breach, and it’s potentially a bad one. A post on the WordPress.com blog by founder Matt Mullenweg describes it as a “low level (root)...
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The Company Behind WordPress Invests in Newspaper Toolmaker OwnLocal
The open source blogging start-up Automattic has made its first investment, leading a round of funding in Austin, Texas-based OwnLocal, which offers tools for newspapers to help local businesses with...
View ArticleHackers and Engineers
The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going...
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Automattic Grows Up: The Company Behind WordPress.com Shares Revenue Numbers...
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is a quiet Web powerhouse. WordPress now powers 70 million sites, up from 35 million sites a year ago. Almost half of the biggest blogs in the world are...
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Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has bought the small synchronization startup Simperium, which makes a syncing platform for developers and a well-loved synced note-taking app for iOS...
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Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on the Importance of Working Remotely
As we’ve seen unfold over the past two weeks, not everyone is into Marissa Mayer’s workplace ideas. That includes Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind the giant blog-hosting...
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WordPress's Matt Mullenweg Talks About Future of Blogging in a SXSW Pedicab
Yesterday, I did an interview session at the SXSW interactive festival in Austin with Matt Mullenweg, where we discussed the lofty topic of the future of blogging. He’d know, as the founder of...
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Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly for Close to $30 Million
Yahoo has bought Summly, the mobile news reader app founded by a young British entrepreneur. In a statement, the London-based company said it had bought the tiny outfit, which will close its app. The...
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WordPress' Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blogs Imported From Tumblr in Just One...
Despite largely anecdotal media speculation, it’s not clear how the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion will be greeted by users of the New York blogging service. But rival blogging...
View ArticleBig Blog Bet, Round 2! Tiger Global Puts $50 Million Into WordPress.
It’s a big week for blogs: Tiger Global Management has invested $50 million in Automattic, the parent company of blogging platform WordPress.com. Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said Tiger is buying...
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Tumblr Porn, Tim Cook and the Problem With Big Data — 10 Things You Need to...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: As expected last week, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. And according to WordPress CEO...
View ArticlePhotomattic
It’s really hard not to be distracted by the things you think you should be doing, or that you see other businesses doing, and focus in on what actually matters to your chosen business day in and day...
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I think there is always a space for both. Whenever there’s a new form of media we always think it’s going to replace the old thing and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was...
View ArticleTiger Global Invests Another $75M in Automattic, Buying Out VC Shares
Tiger Global has led a $75 million purchase of Automattic stock, mostly buying out the WordPress.com company’s venture capital investor Polaris Partners, said founder Matt Mullenweg. The Wall Street...
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Yves Behar's "Smart" Lock Startup August Raises $8 Million
August, the home automation startup that makes a “smart” lock that uses virtual keys, said it has raised $8 million to bring the device to market next spring. If you are talking about the Internet of...
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