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Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattic's WordPress.com

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on Friday.

WordPress.com Maker Automattic Sells $50 Million In Secondary Offering To Tiger Global

Automattic, the company behind publishing platform WordPress, has sold $50 million in a secondary offering led by investment management firm Tiger Global. The sale will allow some early investors and employees to get cash in exchange for their shares, while adding another stakeholder in the company.

I launched a new site *WPBeginner WordPress Gallery*

So I am sure you have been following me through my other blog WPBeginner. Well this past weekend, we launched a new section to WPBeginner called the WordPress Gallery. Slowly through out the month of February, we will be relaunching more sections and revamping the entire site.

The coupons experiment New addition to the WPBeginner Network

So today, at WPBeginner, we added a new site to our growing network called WPBeginner WordPress Coupons. So here is a little story behind this new experiment.

How to Get your Site Featured in Fast Company Magazine

Have you ever been to a site that has a section for "Press" or "As Featured In" where they have logos of top brands? Well now is a chance for you to add a huge logo in your association list on your WordPress Blog or any other site.

It's Time to Change Mashable's Twitter Profile Picture

In July 2005, I created Mashable.com on a WordPress blog. In 2007, I created the @mashable Twitter account. In the beginning it was a feed of my personal thoughts and actions. Mainly, I was posting what I was having for lunch.

WordPress Sees User Bump After Yahoo-Tumblr Announcement

WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg claims the platform saw an unusually high number of imported posts from Tumblr Sunday night, perhaps an early indication that some are looking to flee in light of the pending Yahoo acquisition


Mullenweg (pictured) wrote on his blog that WordPress

Tumblr's Loss Is WordPress' Gain As Thousands Of Users Jump Ship Before Yahoo Takes Over

In what can only be called an exodus, WordPress" co-founder Matt Mullenweg posted on his blog Sunday night that over 72,000 new blog posts were imported within a single hour.

Why It's Dumb to Abandon Tumblr Today

Since it became clear that Yahoo was going to buy Tumblr, Wordpress saw the number of blog imports from Tumblr rise from about 400 an hour to more than 72,000. That's a ridiculous jump and also a stupid one. Here's why you shouldn't leave Tumblr just because it's under new management.

Wordpress: 72K blog posts exited Tumblr in 1 hour over Yahoo deal

Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says he usually sees 400 to 600 blog post defections from Tumblr per hour. But that figure apparently skyrocketed after news of the deal surfaced Sunday.