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...
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...
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
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 volume to a new partner later...
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...