Automattic Articles

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.

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.

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?

Automattic 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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