The suit, originally filed by WP Engine in October 2024, accused Automattic and Mullenweg of defamation and abuse of power.

Openvibe's clever app that integrates multiple open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just got a boost toward its future development. The company on Tuesday announced ...

WP Engine just updated its legal claim against Automattic, but CEO Matt Mullenweg isn't concerned.

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.

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 ...

The WordPress AI assistant doesn't need precisely tailored prompts, either.

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 ...

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, is ...

At the end of 2013, Automattic had 225 employees in 190 cities. The company applied the same open-source philosophy from its software to its growth, noting that it didn’t make sense for a startup to ...

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 ...

WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction... again. In a blog post titled "Returning to Core" published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to ...