Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April
· — After pausing our contributions to regroup, rethink … Bluesky: Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co : Not exactly giving folks a clear idea of what's what [embedded post] X: David Risley / @davidrisle...
Automattic lays off 16% of its staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become “more agile and responsive”; ahead of the layoffs, its website listed 1,744 employees
· — Earlier today, CEO Matt Mullenweg shared … Business Today : WordPress parent Automattic lays off 16% of its employees amid legal and market challenges Emma Roth / The Verge : WordPress.com owner...
Several media and tech executives say UK VC Matt Clifford, who has advised successive Tory and Labour governments, has an outsized influence over AI policy
British venture capitalist has advised successive Tory and Labour governments — Last year, as thousands of customers withdrew … X: @nickswan73 , @hkanji , @james_coe1 , and @krishnanrohit . LinkedIn...
Filing: Satya Nadella earned $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M a year ago; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
but his total compensation still went up more than $30 million Rocio Fabbro / Quartz : Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella asked for a pay cut — but he still made more than before Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzing...
Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself
🍿🍿 🍿 🍿 — https://www.404media.co/... @noellemitchell@mstdn.social : “Instead of Blind, employees have been posting on Anonymattic, an anonymous message board set up on WordPress's own systems that a...
A profile of Oregon-based Agility Robotics, which tests its humanoid robots in Amazon's warehouses and has named former Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson as its CEO
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In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have been a few staff chang...
California regulators close SVB and name the FDIC as the receiver to protect insured deposits; SVB ended 2022 with ~$209B in assets and $175.4B in deposits
banks, lawyers, etc — and it's a minor but not insignificant screening mechanism. https://twitter.com/... Jason Zweig / @jasonzweigwsj : If you want to create a perverse incentive for banks to become ...
Amazon's AWS unit expects to add employees in 2023 and will continue building data centers, despite the company's hiring freeze and cuts in other divisions
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
A look at the mechanics behind Community DAOs, including Flamingo and Fingerprints, which collect blue chip NFTs to raise funds via NFT “drops”
Patrick Rivera / Crypto x Creator Economy : Tweets: @mattk , @albiverse , and @patrickxrivera Tweets: Matt / @mattk : This hyperbolic delusion of grandeur is covering something of future merit. An au...