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WordPress.com Company Automattic Names First Official Chief Financial Officer
Automattic has named Stuart West chief financial officer Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Polldaddy, and Akismet, announced on Wednesday that Stuart West will serve as its first full-time chief financial officer. It has also appointed its first General Counsel, Paul Sieminski. In the new role, West will be responsible for leading Automattic’s global financial strategy, [...]

Web Host Web.com Launches Google AdWords Mobile Marketing Service
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Fortinet Launches DDoS Protection Products for Cloud Hosts, Web Hosts
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Cloud Storage and Backup Provider Symform Raises $11 Million Funding Round
Symform raises $11 million funding round to grow cloud storage and backupCloud backup and storage provider Symform announced on Wednesday that it has closed an $8 million Series B investment round to fund the global expansion of the Symform Cloud Storage Network. It has closed $8 million, and reserved up to $3 million to add [...]

Colocation Firm Telx Launches Marketplace for Clients to Find Partners, Services
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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – April 27, 2012
In the week ending on April 27, 2012, web hosting companies offered a range of sales and promotions on their hosting plans.In the week ending on April 27, 2012, EuroDNS is offering .CH registration for €7.99, IXWebHosting is offering 20 percent off its hosting, KnownHost is offering 75 percent off the first month of its [...]

Will ICANN’s New gTLD Application System Downtime Affect Web Hosts?
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Internap Launches New Web Hosting Service Built with Voxel Cloud Technologies
Internap’s new hosting solution is built on technologies from its acquisition of VoxelWeb host and content delivery provider Internap announced on Thursday the immediate availability of its Agile Hosting services, and a new online configurator for users to customize and provision their IT infrastructure.Agile Hosting is the first key technology deliverables resulting from Internap’s acquisition [...]

Cloud Management Firm ScienceLogic Raises $15 Million, Names John Becker CEO
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Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Supports OpenStack, Adds Cloud Features
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release will be supported until 2017Canonical released its long term support server Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, on Thursday. Ubuntu 12.04 is the fourth LTS release and introduces several new features over the previous release, 10.04 LTS, particularly around cloud, a report by ServerWatch says.According to the report, Ubuntu 12.04 includes the [...]