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Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging

Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a number of other popular web properties, just made a different kind of acquisition: it’s buying Texts, a universal messaging app, for $50 million. Texts is an app for all your messaging apps.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/24/23928685/automattic-texts-acquisition-universal-messaging