In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...

Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source WordPress software.

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the ...

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” ...

Automattic, the creator of WordPress, has big news to share. Today the company relaunched WordPress.com, the hosted version of its content manager used by up to 25 percent of the Web (including VB).

WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction… again. In a blog post titled “Returning to Core” published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to ...

A hot potato: David Heinemeier Hansson was recognized as "Hacker of the Year" for developing the open-source web framework Ruby on Rails in 2004. The Danish software engineer has joined the clash ...