The Jackalope Restaurant in downtown Springfield announced Wednesday that they have sold their business and the new owners plan to take the space into another direction.
Automattic, the company behind popular web management system WordPress, has purchased Beeper and will absorb Beeper's 27 employees. Beeper made headlines back in December for Beeper Mini, an app that brought iMessage to Android devices. Beeper Mini used reverse engineered iMessage protocols and encryption, taking advantage of Apple's own iMessage servers to let Android users send "blue bubble" texts to iPhone users without an Apple ID. The app supported all iMessage functionality, including...
Automattic, the company that operates WordPress.com, has acquired Beeper. As you may recall, Beeper is the company that briefly brought iMessage to Android, much to the chagrin of Apple. The move comes as Automattic aims to become an all-in-one solution for cross-platform messaging. more
The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
WordPress and Tumblr owner Automattic has bought Beeper, the maker of the Beeper Mini app that challenged Apple’s iMessage dominion late last year. Although it ultimately lost that battle (after, oh, about three days), the incident gave the DOJ more ammunition in its antitrust suit against the iPhone maker. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Automattic paid $125 million, a surprisingly hefty price for the startup. Automattic already has an app called Texts that taps into the APIs of various chat...
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In July 2019, the paradigm for the most expensive sneakers ever sold shifted forever. That's when Sotheby's registered its first-ever sale of a pair of sports shoes at auction: vintage Nike “Moon Shoes” from 1972, which hammered for a record-setting $437,000—nearly triple the expected sale price of $150,000. Less than a year later, in May 2020, the auction house moved a pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s for an eye-watering $560,000, making it clear that this was not a one-off fluke. “Loco prices...
The acquisition was made public via a formal announcement from Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky.
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