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$1 billion startup Automattic is closing its San Francisco office and having everyone work from home
Automattic has become famous for its extreme adoption of remote work. The company is completely se…
Julie Bort
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Billion-dollar startup Automattic hires employees without ever meeting them or talking to them on the phone
Remote workers get a $2,500 budget to "trick out" their home offices, plus a new Mac or other techn…
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How Automattic Grew Into A Startup Worth $1 Billion With No Email And No Office Workers
Email came a few years later. Around 2009, about four years after the company started, we found our…
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GREAT PLACE TO WORK: At Automattic Employees All Work From Home And Travel To Exotic Locations
4. The money saved on office space is dedicated to a huge travel budget. Any team can meet whenever…
Julie Bort
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GREAT PLACE TO WORK: At Automattic Employees All Work From Home And Travel To Exotic Locations
4. The money saved on office space is dedicated to a huge travel budget. Any team can meet whenever…
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How To Successfully Run An Office-Less Company
As a company by and for bloggers and made up largely of coders, Automattic's particularly well suit…
Max Nisen
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Verizon is reportedly considering a sale of its media assets, including AOL and Yahoo
Verizon Communications is looking into selling its media assets, according to a report from the Wal…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Verizon is selling blogging site Tumblr to the owner of WordPress for a 'nominal' amount of money
The price of the acquisition is unclear, but the report stated it was a "nominal amount" compared t…
Megan Hernbroth
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13 items that are worth more than Tumblr's $3 million price tag, from an empty lot in San Francisco to a two-bedroom luxury apartment in New York
Tumblr has more than 475 million blogs using its service, but the platform's value has plummeted si…
Paige Leskin
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Verizon has sold mapping service MapQuest as the telecom giant continues to trim its media investments
MapQuest claims to reach 38 million monthly unique users. Advertisers can buy display ads, sponsore…
Lauren Johnson
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Facebook is throwing money at local news and it could help win back trust in the industry
"I think we should all care about high quality journalism. ... I keep hoping that we're gonna see t…
Sara Fischer, Axios
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A year after Tumblr's porn ban, some users are still struggling to rebuild their communities and sense of belonging
It's no coincidence that Tumblr acted as a haven to marginalized group whose content wasn't accepte…
Paige Leskin
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Key stories from Advertising Week, Verizon shedding MapQuest, and how Vox Media's New York magazine acquisition will fuel its growth
Hot off the press, my colleague Lauren Johnson had the scoop on Verizon selling MapQuest to Venice,…
Tanya Dua
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Hot crypto company Blockchain is opening in San Francisco after acquiring a small app building shop
Blockchain raised $40 million last June and has expanded rapidly since then. The company has double…
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Tech Companies Are Asking People To Audition For Their Jobs Before They Hire Them
If the trend continues, it will be interesting to see whether companies begin holding tryouts inste…
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Tech companies pile on lawsuits against the FCC over the repeal of net neutrality
In this latest legal challenge, the tech companies claim they will be directly harmed by the FCC's …
Rachel Sandler
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This Is A Perfect Explanation Of How Most Companies Get Productivity Wrong
"In a lot of businesses, if someone shows up in the morning and he isn't drunk, he doesn't sleep at…
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Blind, the anonymous chat app once banned by Uber, is expanding
For instance, after former engineer Susan Fowler's shocking tell-all of alleged sexual harassment a…
Julie Bort
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The tech industry is lining up behind Apple in its war with the FBI
On Thursday, two amicus briefs were filed by nearly three dozen of the biggest US tech companies de…
Rob Price
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Doxa uses an OkCupid-style personality test to help women find the right startup to work at
Right now, the personality test is the only user data it collects - it can't match you to specific …