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Medium abruptly cancels the membership programs of its 21 remaining subscription publisher partners
Medium has informed publishers using its platform to offer paid memberships that it’s ending that feature. An email at the end of last month from Medium’s head of partnerships Basil Enan told publishers that the company was planning to discontinue memberships in May....
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website,...
Microsoft catching up to Amazon in security clearances for cloud
Microsoft is catching up to Amazon in obtaining federal security approvals, giving it an edge over other potential bidders in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a multibillion-dollar cloud-computing contract. The company best-known for its office software...
Leaked emails show Google was worried military AI work would be revealed
The Intercept has obtained emails sent by high-level Google execs discussing Project Maven–the Defense Department’s controversial project that uses machine learning to speed up the time it takes computers to analyze drone footage to identify people and objects. After...
Amazon wants to help you start your own delivery business
Amazon.com needs help going the final mile. The online retailer says it will offer incentives to get entrepreneurs to set up their own small package-delivery businesses as part of Amazon's latest effort to solve the challenge of getting goods to customer doorsteps....
WP ENGINE ACQUIRES STUDIOPRESS WORDPRESS SOLUTIONS INCLUDING GENESIS FRAMEWORK
AUSTIN, Texas — June 27, 2018 – WP Engine, the WordPress digital experience platform, today announced it has acquired StudioPress, creators of the Genesis Framework (“Genesis”), the world’s most popular theme framework for the millions of WordPress sites that comprise...