The Irish Times

WordPress and Tumblr owner pumps €200m into loss-making Irish unit

Automattic’s Irish unit employs 200 staff who work remotely

Tue May 10 2022 - 18:36

Tumblr-owner plans expansion of Irish hub with more work-from-home staff

Dublin-registered Automattic spent €51m on R&D last year

Tue Dec 08 2020 - 15:54

Pointy sale: How a Google reject built a $160m company and sold it to Google

Mark Cummins came up with the idea for Pointy while drinking a beer

Wed Jan 15 2020 - 12:22

Pointy’s $160m sale means $80m-plus payday for founders

Co-founders of retail tech innovator to share $80m and Jamie Heaslip also set to gain

Tue Jan 14 2020 - 23:18

Irish retail tech company Pointy purchased for $160m

Google takeout spells payday for founders and early-stage investors

Tue Jan 14 2020 - 14:32

Pointy raises $12m in funding in drive to speed-up growth

Irish retail tech firm gives small retailers a new way to make their stock visible online

Thu Jul 12 2018 - 08:00

Retail tech firm Pointy set to double workforce to 50

Firm gives small retailers a way to make their stock visible online

Tue May 22 2018 - 19:05

Web Log: WordPress offering .blog domain

Automattic, firm behind WordPress, secretly snap up domain for about €20 million

Thu May 19 2016 - 03:15

PwC forum focuses on cyber defence mechanisms

Former advisor to Australian government to talk about cyber espionage

Mon Nov 16 2015 - 06:30

Petroceltic sues Wordpress over blog criticisms

Exploration company launches High Court action to unmask anonymous blog author

Thu Aug 20 2015 - 01:01

Dublin start-up creates a website of all of your products in five minutes

Pointy is hoping to keep €3.6 billion in online sales in Ireland

Mon Jun 15 2015 - 01:45

Stripe takes on bitcoin with rival digital currency Stellar

Payments firm founded by John and Patrick Collison invests $3m in cryptocurrency

Tue Aug 05 2014 - 01:40