Automattic secures $29.5m in funding, WordPress creator happy

An The Rag by Thord Daniel Hedengren

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror as well. As you can see from the mammoth amount of links here – and in Matt’s post, which presents them a little cleaner – there’s a lot of coverage on this already. Good or bad for WordPress users? Probably the former, but the more money involved, the more I want to know what’s going on with my favorite blogging platform of choice.

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