WP.com now owned by Automattic
Automattic continues to make small new acquisitions to further boost their offerings.
They have now acquired the domain name WP.com from Yahoo.
They are currently redirecting WP.com to WordPress.com.
The developers behind the popular blogging platform are now looking for suggestions from their users for what to do with this brand new [...]
Websense has acquired Defensio
Web security service provider Websense has announced that they are acquiring Defensio.
Defensio is one of the few challengers of Akismet which provides blog spam protection services.
The financial aspects of this deal have not been revealed.
Websense said in its statement that they would now integrate Defensio into its ThreatSeeker Network.
They [...]
Rafael Nadal blogs at the Australian Open
The latest celebrity to join the blogging bandwagon is the Spanish world number one tennis star Rafael Nadal.
Rafael Nadal has launched his blog at the Australian Open. He would be responding to questions from the tennis fans.
He said about the blog: “This is my first blog [...]
Kobe Bryant to blog for Sina.com
Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant is going to blog on the popular Chinese portal Sina.com.
Market sources say that he has signed a very lucrative deal with the chinese company for this blog.
Bryant is very popular in China where US basketball has a huge following due to the emergence of [...]
Consumers Union acquires Consumerist from Gawker Media
Gawker Media has announced that they have sold their popular blog Consumerist to Consumers Union.
Consumers Union publishes Consumer Reports.
Consumerist would now become a new department for Consumers Union.
Kevin McKean, vice president and editorial director of Consumers Union spoke about this acquisition: “We don’t want to [...]
It becomes harder to blog anonymously in Vietnam
Vietnamese government has now made it tougher for bloggers in the country to hide their identities.
The government has now announced a new initiative that would force the online service providers to provide data on users.
Vietnamese government had said recently that they wanted to keep a tight control [...]
Linus Torvalds starts blogging
Linus Torvalds has finally joined the blogosphere. He has started a ‘trial’ blog which is not going to be directly related to his involvement in Linux.
The blog is named Linus’ blog and it is more of a personal thing.
Torvalds said that he sees this blog as an experimental outlet for [...]
Sergey Brin starts a personal blog named TOO
Google co-founder and one of the richest men in the world Sergey Brin has launched his personal blog on the web.
This blog is named TOO and it is hosted on Google’s Blogger service.
Brin said that this blog would be about his personal life.
In the first of the few [...]
Tatter and Company acquired by Google
Search engine giant Google already owns the Blogger.com blogging service.
They have now acquired South Korean blogging software company Tatter and Company.
Analysts say that this deal is aimed at expanding their presence in the fast growing South East Asian market.
The deal was confirmed in a blog post by TNC’s co-CEO [...]
Google updates Blogger in Draft
Google has updated their Blogger in Draft with lots of new features.
Google add new features to Blogger in Draft before they are implemented on their regular Blogging service at Blogger.com.
There are lots of new features including:
Webmaster Tools Verification
Star ratings
Import / export of blogs
Embedded comment form
New post editor
Checkout: Updates and Bug [...]
