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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
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GitHub, Salesforce and SharePoint Went Down in Four Days. Nobody Attacked Them.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
A GitHub cleanup job saturated the database behind every authenticated request. A Salesforce legacy login service stalled during Dreamforce. A Microsoft configuration change blanked SharePoint pages. Three platforms, four days, and trouble that started inside a shared service path.
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CyberFolks and Shoper Agree to Merge Into a Single Listed Entity Valued at €1 Billion
by Natalia Nowak · 25 May 2026 · 3 min read
CyberFolks will absorb Shoper through a share exchange at 0.2281 CyberFolks shares per Shoper share, forming a single Warsaw-listed entity valued at €1 billion. The merged group holds Shoper, PrestaShop, MailerLite, and Sylius, covering most of the e-commerce stack across Europe.
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Why Hosting Companies Are Expanding into SaaS, E-commerce, and Ecosystems
by Kamil Kołosowski · 11 Feb 2026 · 12 min read
For years, the value proposition was simple: rent space on the internet, keep it online, keep it fast, keep it safe. And that still matters - immensely. But it’s no longer where most of the value is captured. In 2026, the most ambitious hosting companies are no longer competing primarily on CPUs, storage, or even performance benchmarks. They’re competing on something much messier and far more powerful: the customer’s workflow.
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team.blue acquires Windsor.ai, adds another SaaS to its growing portfolio
by Damian Andruszkiewicz · 21 Jan 2026 · 3 min read
TL;DR - team.blue has acquired Windsor.ai, a Swiss-based marketing data integration and attribution platform. Even with significant customer growth over recent years, Windsor.ai remains “small”, relative to team.blue’s scale. This deal is
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group.one acquires SocialPilot in $50 Million deal
by Kamil Kołosowski · 5 Aug 2025 · 3 min read
Sweden-based digital solutions provider group.one has announced the acquisition of SocialPilot, a leading social media management platform, in a transaction valued at over $50 million. This move strengthens group.one's portfolio of SaaS tools aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs), extending its reach into the fast-growing sector of marketing automation.
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Automattic launches AI site builder
by Mr. WHT · 11 Apr 2025 · 2 min read
There’s a quiet but powerful change happening in the world of website building. Step by step, one company after another is switching from traditional drag-and-drop tools to smart, AI-powered builders. This week, Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com – joined the race in a big way.
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Will traditional hosting be replaced by SaaS solutions?
by Kamil Kołosowski · 30 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
The hosting industry has been a foundation of the internet since the beginning, providing the infrastructure needed to make websites accessible to users around the world. However, the web hosting landscape is changing, with the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions challenging traditional hosting models. This shift raises a key question: will traditional hosting be replaced by SaaS in the near future?
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Users criticize drastic Webflow price hikes
by Kamil Kołosowski · 17 Jul 2024 · 5 min read
In recent days, the online design and development community has been abuzz with controversy surrounding a drastic price increase implemented by Webflow, a popular web design platform. This uproar has been particularly
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