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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. It all began with a blog post.

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Exotel raises $40 million for its full-stack customer engagement platform

TechCrunch

“The importance of having effective communication strategy is increasing over time and Exotel executed this successfully by powering communication to almost all internet unicorns in India,” said Puneet Kumar, managing director at Steadview Capital, in a statement. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15.

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Even well-funded fintech companies are laying off workers

TechCrunch

We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO.

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A Brief History of the Internet’s Biggest BGP Incidents

Kentik

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.

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Four More Words That Will ‘Shape’ my 2014

Strategy Driven

On the improvement side of life, my four words are: INSTAGRAM – BLOG – SHAPE – BEST. That’s a pretty good indicator of where Microsoft is in the social media world: nowhere. BLOG – I intend to make my blog much more personal this year. LESSON: A blog is a place to document and expose.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Last week technology news site Re:Code announced that it would stop hosting comments on its own sites as the conversation around stories was already happening on social media. We like to self-flagellate in journalism, and here is another birch twig to … Read more on The Guardian (blog). Read more on Macon Telegraph (blog).

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Improving Your Website For Business Purposes

Strategy Driven

Many websites all over the internet start off as hobbies, and thousands if not millions of people around the world have turned their website into very successful businesses. The most common way of doing this is through blogging , but in this article, there are going to be ideas for those of us that run different kinds of websites.