by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Wordpress, General News, Tech News
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...
by ray | Jul 7, 2018 | Wordpress, General News
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,...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Amazon, General News
It’s been a year since Amazon.com Inc. agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.5 billion. The biggest beneficiaries of the deal might be Amazon Prime members. Sky-blue signs advertising discounts for Prime members greet shoppers in some Whole Foods parking lots....
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | General News
Josep Lago / AFP / Getty Images One of the tech industry’s most storied partnerships is coming to an end. EBay announced today that it will stop working with PayPal as its back-end payments service in 2020 and will start to move a small percentage of its payments...
by ray | Jul 5, 2018 | General News
Having a baby—either biologically or via adoption—is a wonderful, exhausting, amazing, stressful experience. And what can make it more wonderful and more stressful is leave—whether you as a mother or father get any, and how much you get. (Because honestly, it’s never...
by ray | Jun 20, 2018 | General News
Using high-quality cloud computing is typically a lot cheaper than building basic local infrastructure, but that isn’t the only reason why it’s something you should look into. In fact, it carries a vast number of advantages you might never have thought about. To...