NordVPN raises its first money, $100M at a $1.6B valuation
VPN usage has surged in the last several years, with growing concerns over data privacy and security — and sometimes completely different motivations like people wanting to access content otherwise...
View ArticleTumblr said 420 Blaze it (but literally)
Yesterday, Tumblr rolled out Tumblr Blaze to all users over 18 in the United States. The feature lets users promote their content in the same way you might boost a tweet or a Facebook post on those...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg thinks Tumblr can be a better Twitter than Twitter ever was
Welcome Back to Found, the TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. It’s rare we get to speak to someone who has been working at their company for 19 years so this conversation...
View ArticlePodcast app Pocket Casts goes open source
Popular podcast platform Pocket Casts has released its mobile clients under an open source license. WordPress parent company Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, having been acquired by a group...
View ArticleTumblr’s only viable business model is shitposting
As Elon Musk struggles to make people give Twitter $8 a month for a blue check, Tumblr had an idea: What if they offered users $8 for not one, but two blue checks? Yes, you can legitimately buy two...
View ArticleTumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon...
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like...
View ArticleWordPress.com owner Automattic acquires an ActivityPub plugin so blogs can...
WordPress.com sites now have an easier way to integrate with the Fediverse, including Mastodon. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and other web publishing tools, is the new owner of...
View ArticleAutomattic launches an AI writing assistant for WordPress
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open source WordPress project, launched an AI assistant for the popular content management system on Tuesday. The company...
View ArticleWordPress Playground lets you run WordPress entirely in your browser
If you don’t keep up with WordPress ecosystem news, you might not be aware of a cool new project called WordPress Playground. And I include myself in this group, as I had never heard of WordPress...
View ArticleAutomattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks future of Tumblr, with algorithmic...
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other online publishing tools, is offering a glimpse into Tumblr’s future — the blogging site Automattic acquired from Verizon in...
View ArticleWordPress is now selling 100-year domains
WordPress, a company that has been around for 20 years, is now selling domains with a 100-year registration length. That means your blog or website will probably live longer than you. The company...
View ArticleWordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon
In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the acquisition of an...
View ArticleWordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated...
Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plug-in that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival...
View ArticleWordPress.com owner buys all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50M
WordPress.com and Tumblr owner Automattic is adding another company to its portfolio with today’s news that it has acquired the all-in-one messaging app Texts.com for $50 million. The app brings all...
View ArticleTumblr to run on skeleton crew as parent company Automattic absorbs staff
According to a leaked memo, Tumblr’s longterm financial woes have reached a breaking point. Aside from a skeleton crew of essential workers in departments like trust and safety, the majority of...
View ArticleAutomattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr’s future after re-org
This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at parent company Automattic in light of the social blogging...
View ArticleTumblr+ kills Post+, its ill-fated subscription offering for creators
Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late on Monday. The service, which allowed creators to paywall select content for subscribers only, will no longer...
View ArticleTumblr tests ‘Communities,’ semi-private groups with their own moderators and...
After scaling back operations and reassigning staff to other projects, Tumblr owner Automattic’s CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the company would home in on the parts of Tumblr’s service that worked and...
View ArticleWhat’s next for Texts.com under new owner Automattic, as Apple cracks down on...
What’s next for Texts.com? The all-in-one messaging app was acquired this fall by WordPress.com owner Automattic for $50 million, marking the company’s first official expansion into the world of...
View ArticleWhy Automattic spent $50M on Texts.com
We brought on Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic and co-founder of WordPress, along with Kishan Bagaria, the founder of Texts.com, to talk about the transaction and what it means. © 2023 TechCrunch....
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