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Om Malik / GigaOM:
WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M — Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, stopped by my apartment earlier this week. Matt, who is one of my closest friends, brought his Texan sense of humor and all-around good cheer …
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Matt / Photo Matt:
Act Two — You've probably seen the news on GigaOM, Automattic has raised a new “series B” round of funding. We're entering what I consider Act II of the Automattic story. I'll talk about where we're going, but first some history. — In 2005 Automattic was small.
Toni / Toni's Garage:
Automattic fundraising — As Om and Matt report, we closed a $29.5 million round of financing for Automattic today. Coincidentally, the closing is happening during one of our bi-annual company get-togethers, so we'll be able to toast the occasion in person!
Brian Stelter / New York Times:Times Company in Group Investing in Blog Publisher
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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results — Best Quarterly Revenue & Earnings in Apple History — Mac, iPod & iPhone Sales Break Previous Records — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter ended December 29, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $9.6 billion …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Q1: The iPod Has Left The Building (AAPL) — We'll let SAI's Henry Blodget explain the pros and cons of paying attention to quarterly numbers, guidance, and whisper numbers tomorrow. And we're not going to try to analyze why AAPL is plummeting in after-hours trading.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple posts nice Q1, but pessimistic on Q2 — Updated at 3:45 p.m. PST following the conference call, with changes throughout. — Apple's first quarter hit on all cylinders, as the company continued its financial run on the strength of its Mac business. But anyone looking for reassurance …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Create Your Own Reddit — Reddit has announced a brand new feature that they are currently testing out in closed beta - the ability for users to make their own Reddits. Reddit has long had the “other reddits” featuring ones specializing in programming, science, politics, etc …
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The Last Podcast
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE DROPS MORE THAN 160 POINTS — That's not something we're used to hearing, but since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it's dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568). It's on a steep decline in the past few days …
RealClearMarkets:
Might Google Buy the New York Times? — The choice for the family would be basically this: double your money or double down on “young Arthur,” as the NYT's Chairman and CEO is sometimes called. In the back of their minds, the prospect of doubling down on “young Arthur” …
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Maxlevchin / You've gotta be kidding me:
How to successfully launch a social networking development platform. — I decided to jot down some observations and thoughts on launching successful social networking development platforms... like the one facebook launched at f8, Bebo's clone of facebook's, or the one MySpace will be launching, etc.
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James Bannan / APC:
Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year? — A recently-release roadmap for the next major Window release - Windows 7 - indicates that Microsoft is planning to release the new operating system in the second half of 2009, rather than the anticipated release date of some time in 2010.
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPod Touch: ‘Mainstream Wi-Fi Mobile Platform’ — During Apple's conference call today, Apple executives described the iPod touch as a potentially the “first mainstream Wi-Fi mobile platform, running all kinds of mobile applications". — This is the first time that Apple has referred …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
CBS Will Try To Convert Last.FM Acquisition To Video Value — One of the questions that comes up repeatedly in chats about CBS: what is the company doing to move last year's $280 million Last.fm acquisition beyond buzz into value? Looks like answers may be on the way.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Real-Estate Search Engine Roost Launches With Full MLS Listings — Just when you thought the real-estate bubble had burst and the economy was going to hell, here comes another real-estate search engine. Today we see the launch of Roost, a real-estate site inspired by the lean look and feel of travel search engine Kayak.
Justin Pope / Associated Press:
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study — Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. — In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came …
