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WordPress Owner Automattic Acquires Longreads

By Mike Isaac

Automattic, the company behind online publishing platform WordPress, announced Wednesday it had acquired Longreads, the Oakland, Calif.-based link-sharing startup that aggregates and delivers the best long-form content on the Web to subscribers via email. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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