Why MakerBot failed to live up to the hype: competition, flawed printers, backlash over its move to closed source, consumer 3D printer market never materialized
was October 2009 when Bre Pettis—his unmistakable sideburns and dark-rimmed rectangular glasses framing his face … Tweets: @calbucci and @carl_franklin Tweets: Marcelo Calbucci / @calbucci : Bre Petti...
MakerBot to stop making its own 3D printers, will outsource manufacturing to Jabil, a contractor with facilities in China
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Interview: MakerBot CEO Jonathan Jaglom discusses recent layoffs, retail store closures, future roadmap, more
Remaking MakerBot — MakerBot Industries is the public face of 3D printing. And whenever the public face of a nascent, closely-watched consumer technology undergoes …
MakerBot's new CEO Jonathan Jaglom lays off 20% of staff, about 100 people
MakerBot Just Laid Off 20 Percent of Its Staff — When MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based 3D printing company, became a subsidiary of 3D printing giant Stratasys, Inc. in 2013, everyone expected there woul...
Adobe Partners With MakerBot and Shapeways
Adobe today launched the latest update to its subscription-based Creative Cloud suite. While the company is updating a variety of its tools …
MakerBot announces Replicator Mini 3D printer: one-touch printing for $1,375
When MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis hit the CES stage today, he was joined by three tall, somewhat ominous black boxes (along with, strangely, acoustic versions of Goo Goo Dolls and Stone Temple Pilots hits)...
MakerBot's $1,400 Digitizer Now Available To Pre-Order, Will Ship By Mid-October
The folks at MakerBot have been teasing their Digitizer desktop 3D scanner since this past March, but now they're just about ready push it out the door. For $1,400, you too can scan all the little kn...
MakerBot unveils Replicator 2, 2X and launches retail store, we go eyes-on
The Replicator may have just been pushed off this writer's Christmas list. (Note to self: send updated letter to Santa.) But, this isn't a loss for MakerBot Industries, because it's being replaced b...