The free and open internet faces threats from companies propagating walled gardens designed to control your data and the rise ...

Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI tool designed to help bloggers write more clearly and succinctly. The tool joins a swathe of writing assistants launched lately by the ...

Web hosting company WP Engine has filed an amended complaint with brow-raising new allegations in its ongoing legal battle with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic ...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of ...

WordPress.com owner Automattic has added another company to its portfolio of online content creation tools and services with its acquisition of Grammarly competitor, Harper. Although it’s competing in ...

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the ...

Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a ...

WordPress hosting company Automattic said on Monday that it is acquiring WPAI, a startup that builds AI solutions for WordPress. WPAI's products include CodeWP, which lets you use AI to create WP ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In 2010, WordPress.com reached an agreement with Microsoft to manage blogs on Live Spaces, from which the company was withdrawing ...

Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source WordPress software.

Automattic owns Wordpress.com, Tumblr, and other popular websites. As of April 1, the company is also the new owner of Beeper. Remember Beeper? Just a few short months ago, the company made it ...

SEO plays a role in Automattic’s counterclaim against WP Engine. The legal document mentions search engine optimization six times and SEO once as part of counterclaims asserting that WP Engine ...