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SAN FRANCISCO -- Can relying on open source technology as the backbone for an entire company really be feasible? WordPress.com's founder Matt Mullenweg certainly seems to think so. "I believe morally ...
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under ...
In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...
WordPress, the world's largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier. Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation most ...
Ten years ago today, WordPress, the open source blogging software, was born. It’s amazing to think that it’s been that long, but considering it had all of the elements that other startups and projects ...
Interview: Automattic wunderkind on his blogging tool's success, Barack Obama and why games are so important Matt Mullenweg is the 26-year-old founder of Automattic, the company behind the innovative ...
Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing the ...