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0 Announcing DiscoveryBeat: an event on how to get your apps noticed in an age of noise

VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.

DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon...

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0 5 O’Clock Roundup: Nokia enters world’s largest market, New York Times boss clams up on Apple tablet

Nokia launches 6788 phone with China Mobile – The world’s largest handset maker meets the world’s largest wireless carrier in the world’s largest...

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0 Blog startup Six Apart wants to help you build social apps like Pownce

Six Apart said today that it’s ready to expand its TypePad hosting service beyond blogs — now it wants to power “the next Twitter, Facebook, or...

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0 Automattic acquires spellchecking company After the Deadline

Fairly or not, the Internet has earned a reputation as the home for typos, incorrect spelling, and bad grammar. I’ve certainly been responsible for my...

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0 Another Googler Turns VC – Jon Steinberg Joins Polaris Venture Partners As EIR

Jon Steinberg, now former Strategic Partner Development Manager on Google's SMB (Small Medium Business) Partnerships team, has accepted a position as...

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0 Automattic Open Sources Natural Language Spell-Checker After the Deadline

Matt Mullenweg has just annouced on his blog that WordPress parent company Automattic is open sourcing After the Deadline, a natural-language...

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0 From Plaintiff to Partner: PicApp's Photographers Embrace WordPress

Early this morning PicApp announced a partnership with Automattic and integration with WordPress. More than 7.5 million publishers on WordPress'...

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0 WordPress.com, PicApp Partner On Images

Automattic the parent firm behind WordPress.com, and San Francisco-based PicApp, said today that the two firms have inked a deal to allow...

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0 Fail: Automattic CEO takes on WPMU

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has once again highlighted the gross conflict of interest between his commercial interests and involvement in...

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0 TechStars Debuts Nine Startups In Boston

Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for...

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0 WordPress Maker Acquires a Better Spell Checking Tool

Users of WordPress hosted blogs (WordPress.com) received a new spell checking tool today, by way of parent company Automattic’s acquisition of After...

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0 Natural-Language Spellchecker After the Deadline Acquired by Automattic

Matt Mullenweg's Automattic is quickly becoming the new media conglomerate to be reckoned with.

The parent company behind WordPress, Automattic has...

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0 Automattic Acquires After The Deadline. Bloggers Suddenly Learn How To Spell

After The Deadline is a popular spell check plug-in that allows users to incorporate spell checking into their online applications. Now that...

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0 Automattic Acquires Spellcheck Plug-In After The Deadline

Automattic has acquired spelling plug-in After The Deadline, which adds spelling, style, and grammar checking to web applications through a plug-in....

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0 Disqus To Launch Their New Comments Platform Soon

Intense Debate may have been acquired by Automattic (the people behind WordPress), but Disqus remains the blogosphere’s favorite comment networking...

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0 OMG Yahoo Gets OMG.com For Cheap

Yahoo has been active in the domain buying and selling space the past few months. Today, it was revealed to be the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last...

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0 TechStars Incubator Hatches 10 New Companies

Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for...

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0 Booting Up Baghdad: Tech Execs Take a Tour in Iraq

As the CEO of MeetUp, Scott Heiferman usually spends his days meeting with staff and brainstorming product strategy. But today the 37-year-old New...

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0 Mollom Blocks Its 100 Millionth Spam Message

Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic's Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites,...

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0 PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Widget With Possible Digg Competitor On The Horizon

It's no secret that bloggers love their polls — they're a great way to increase user engagement, and sometimes you can even get some useful data from...

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