Liz Gannes in News on April 25 at 6:30 am PT
Automattic is profitable and expects to bring in $45 million in revenue this year, according to CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 10 at 5:00 am PT
Upon hearing manual typewriters are now “a thing,”
AllThingsD’s Ina Fried dusts hers off and puts pen to paper extolling the virtues of the pre-computer keyboard.
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 to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and Amazon did to traditional retailers.
– WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 3:40 pm PT
As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2011 at 11:43 am PT
Tumblr, the fast-growing blogging social network, goes down a lot. How much? It had 42 hours of downtime in 2011, by far the most among major blogging hosts, according to Pingdom.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on May 2, 2011 at 2:43 pm PT
The Pakistani IT consultant who unwittingly live-tweeted the U.S. raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden got so much attention today that it led to his Web site being attacked.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 13, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
Automattic, which hosts WordPress.com and several other services, has come under attack–a root break-in providing deep access to its systems. The effects are still being assessed.
Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week.
To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut this coming weekend.
It’s called “Attack the Block,” and has the best tag line ever: “Inner City Versus Outer Space.”
Which is just about how I am feeling about SXSW!
Liz Gannes in Social on March 3, 2011 at 11:03 am PT
WordPress.com, which hosts this site, was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack today. Users reported extreme slowness this morning, and Automattic switched hosted blogs into read-only mode while combatting the attack, according to a post on its support forum.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 11:15 pm PT
The lightweight blogging company Posterous volunteered to open its books recently, coughing up every product stat NetworkEffect asked for during a recent visit.
