Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Automattic's recent funding news, which outlined a $288M primary round, buybacks, and an internal liquidity market for staff
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. This week: the FBI's warning to startups, OnlyFans pulls a Tumblr and inside Automattic's unusual funding and buyback rounds. Tweets: @bizcarson Tweets: Biz Carson / @b...
Tumblr starts testing Post+, which allows users to charge their followers a monthly fee in exchange for access to exclusive content, with Tumblr taking a 5% cut
Social platform is the latest to let users earn money from posting — Microblogging stalwart Tumblr on Wednesday began …
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Today Automattic announced it has closed … Sara Fischer / Axios : WordPress.com owner Automattic raises $300 million Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Automattic Raises $300M Series D from Salesfor...
Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, closes up 39% on its first day of trading, after raising $648M in an IPO at a $7.8B valuation
right now he's $60 million short, per @Forbes estimates. Stay tuned to see if he makes it: https://www.forbes.com/... Jonathan Lehr / @fendien : It's official. NYC Tech 1.0 was adtech (DoubleClick, Ap...
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation. The Series D round has a single investor, Sale...
A look at Twitter in Japan, its second-largest market, raking in $136M in Q1 revenue, where the service has mass appeal and many users have multiple accounts
Rising ad dollars from Japan has bolstered the company's total revenue — When Yu Sasamoto joined Twitter Inc. as head of Japan in 2014 … Tweets: @richbtig , @hamburger , @luca , and @selinawangtv Tw...
Study: in 2017, ~17M US content creators, up 16.6% YoY, earned ~$6.8B, up 17% YoY, on nine leading platforms including Instagram, Twitch, Tumblr, and YouTube
A year ago, we wrote about a wonderful study that showed how the internet and its various platforms were (contrary to the stories …
Report: ~15M indie content creators in US used Amazon Publishing, eBay, Etsy, Instagram, Shapeways, Tumblr, Twitch, WordPress, or YouTube to earn ~$6B in 2016
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Tweets: @austinj Tweets: Austin Johnsen / @austinj : Great research and great to see how many creators are now making money across the US (although the estimates for some of...
Yahoo Q2: $1.3B revenue, up 5% YoY, in line with expectations, $482M writedown on Tumblr; Mayer notes success in cutting costs as bid deadline hits
Yahoo, in the midst of final negotiations to sell itself, reported earnings in line with Wall Street's already lowered expectations …
Handy raises $15M and hires CTO Ken Little, former VP of product at Tumblr
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat :