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Automattic Asks: Who's Your PollDaddy Now?
Published on Oct 16, 2008 in Web CMS
The company behind the WordPress blogging platform has just announced their acquisition of PollDaddy.
That’s right, Automattic and the Web-based polling and survey company are now intertwined. Based out of Sligo, Ireland, PollDaddy offers free polls with the option to run more detailed and advanced surveys at an annual rate.
WordPress Gets Intense With Commenting Tools
Published on Sep 24, 2008 in Web CMS
Automattic, a web development corporation, has been making headway with its blogging and publishing platform WordPress, and now the company wants to spice things up with an integrated commenting system by the name of IntenseDebate.
The company recently purchased IntenseDebate for an undisclosed amount and plans on integrating some of its functionality within WordPress for the upcoming 2.7 release.
Google Expands Non-Evil Empire to Korea
Published on Sep 19, 2008 in Web Publishing![]()
Every successful mega corporation knows that the first rule of acquisitions is: Why buy one of anything, when you can buy two for twice the price? Or, in Google’s case, why own Blogger in the U.S., when you can also own Textcube in South Korea?
Open Source Opens Checkbooks
Published on Feb 4, 2008 in Enterprise 2.0Automattic gets a US $29.5M round of Series B funding.
Alfresco secures a US $9M round of Series C funding.
Sun Microsystems pays a cool US $1 Billion for MySQL.
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