Following up on the big news that StellarWP acquired LearnDash. There are a ton of posts from all involved, and even though it’s been a week or so (CaboPress consumed a ton of time), I think it’s worthwhile to track these thoughts. By joining Liquid Web, LearnDash becomes part of one of the biggest names […]
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Sinch Acquires Pathwire
Not super breaking but super important since we all communicate via email and text message, especially for marketing. Now we’re getting a huge SMS company, Sinch, acquiring a critical component in the digital marketing economy, Pathwire. Courtesy of Bridget Willard, Diego Mendoza-Moyers writes San Antonio technology firm acquired for $1.9 billion: “It’s expensive and complicated […]
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#MorningCoffee: Money, Money, and People
Just a friendly reminder, WordCamp Europe 2021 is in full swing, get thyself to a session or two. Today, it’s definitely a “movers and shakers” kind of day. Your news is global news! Working on something? Something you heard or saw, send me an email. And tell your friends to sign up here. 500 Billion Dollars […]
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#MorningCoffee: The Restart
So the month of May was very haphazard and I sincerely apologize to the many loyal readers who kept asking for the next newsletter. Trying to do two full time jobs at once is, ha!, surprisingly difficult. Who would’ve “thunk” it?! But what better time to get back in the flow than WordCamp Europe 2021 […]
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Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar
Liquid Web will be the first of the year to kickoff numerous acquisitions in the hosting economy. Lots of these have been held over because of the holidays, legal, tax, etc. reasons to expect a very busy first quarter. From the press release, The Events Calendar Joins the Liquid Web Family: “This wasn’t just a […]
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Morning Coffee: Hard Week for Hosts
Today is for covering a hard week for a couple of hosts. The industry is hard enough but honestly these issues are a little different than the usual DNS attacks (which still are non-stop and unrelenting throughout the year). Managed.com Update First we have Managed.com getting waylaid by ransomware. In a followup from E Hacking […]
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Morning Coffee: Ecommerce Email & Donuts
Email and donuts, what could be better. Significant partnerships and acquisitions in email marketing space are shaping up for some of the largest hosting companies. Donuts acquires as well. The WooCommerce Email World Back in September I posted Everything You Need to Know About Ecommerce Email Marketing in 2020 – read that as a recap […]
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Morning Coffee: Marketing and Managing
Still going crazy with lists, and advice, and blogs, and experts for #BFCM preparation (which of course will be valuable for ecommerce in the long haul). Also a little bit more about this week’s deplatforming. WooCommerce and SMS Ok, while not the only players in the field, Omnisend has a little bit on the value […]
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Morning Coffee: BREAKING: Managed Host Down!
BREAKING: This is the worst of all worlds. DotNetNuke (DNN) host and Deluxe brand Managed.com looks to not only be unavailable but reports on WebHosting Talk suspect a very nefarious situation – ransomware. Not sure on the scope, and I assume there are backups somewhere for customers that are firewalled from this outage but this […]
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Morning Coffee: Optimal Optimization
Ok, we have less than two weeks until the internet door busting shopping spectacle known as Black Friday / Cyber Monday (BFCM) unleashes. While many online stores are already ramping up with early deals, I certainly expect special SPECIALS on the traditional days. Are you ready for it? But first a public service announcement from […]