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Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessWordPress News
Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about theā€¦

Automattic trial data and employee retention

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Matt Mullenweg does a lot of interviews, and much ofĀ this one at the Lean Startup ConferenceĀ is similar to many others, highlighting how WordPress got started, the culture of open source and how Automattic works. But at the end he mentionedā€¦

Ten bootstrapping tips from Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Collis Ta'eed recently did a Twitter "series", if you will, highlighting ten bootstrapping tips of his to celebrate the seven year anniversary for Envato. They haven't blogged the list anywhere that I can tell, and I don't want it toā€¦

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how theirā€¦

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engineā€¦

Automattic has acquired Cloudup

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they've announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that's still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot ofā€¦

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, youā€¦

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessSecurity
Automattic is acquiring a security firm that has yet to be named or officially announced. The acquisition is said to be Automattic's largest yet. Matt Mullenweg spoke to TechWeekEurope about security within WordPress and a bit about this acquisition. Well,ā€¦

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development forā€¦

The Year Without Pants

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessWordPress Community
Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structureā€¦

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, andā€¦

WordPress.com introduces Connect, a “login with” API

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It's an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.comĀ users. It's not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services thatā€¦

Contributing to Jetpack, the guide

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The Automattic Jetpack team has announced a handy guide for people that want to contribute to Jetpack. I should probably learn from this, as historically, my methods for contributing to Jetpack have been by whining on Twitter. I wish moreā€¦
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