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Tom Furmanski

WordPress buys Tumblr for “less than $3m”, down from $1.1b in 2013

Sarah Krouse reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is buying Tumblr from Verizon. Tumblr was (and still is for the most part) the blogging service of choice for millions of young people, but floundered after being sold to AOL Yahoo and subsequently cleansed of advertiser-unfriendly material (i.e. smut) when Yahoo was itself sold to Verizon.

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Chris Grant (he/him)

We’ll be at stand 105 at the Southwest Business Expo on 4th July, see you there?

We like last minute decisions and so with less than a week to go before the event we’ve decided that we’ll be exhibiting at Southwest Business Expo, Swindon – stand 105, just before you reach the entrance  – and would love to meet you there on the 4th July (this coming Thursday) between 10am and 3pm at Steam Museum

Former physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World-Wide Web
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Chris Grant (he/him)

The world-wide-web turns 30, what’s next #ForTheWeb

It all started rather innocently. In 1989, some scientists at CERN, the science research center in Switzerland, wanted to automatically share their information with fellow scientists working

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Jenny Howell

The most dangerous phrase in the language…

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy. 

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Chris Grant (he/him)

Meet the 230 new emojis approved for 2019

The Unicode Consortium, the group which approve the icons before they appear on the likes of Android and iOS, has given the green light for no less than 230 new emojis.

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Chris Grant (he/him)

New ICO GDPR guidance: Passwords and encryption in online services and websites

The latest guidence from the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) could be relevent to anyone operating a website that allows users to log in, whether it’s staff, volunteers, customers, or the general public. Although the GDPR does not say anything specific about passwords, you are required to process personal data securely by means of appropriate technical and organisational measures.

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Chris Grant (he/him)

Your GDPR compliance checklist

Getting through the General Data Protection Regulation Whether you’re a business owner, senior manager, or a designated data protection officer, if it’s your job to