The Updraft team has made another purchase, acquiring the WPGetAPI plugin, which allows you to connect to any REST API, format and display the returned data on your WordPress website.

On the acquisitions front, Brainstorm Force is now part owner of LatePoint, an appointment booking and scheduling WordPress plugin. It is being integrated into SureCart and ZipWP.

Automattic acquires the universal messaging app Texts.

Acquisitions – Awesome Motive purchases gallery plugins and themes.

10up is a largely WordPress agency with almost 300 employees and over $40 million in revenue. They have merged with Fueled Digital Media, an agency that makes mobile apps for large enterprise clients.

Acquisition news: Cloud hosting company group.one, who owns WP Rocket and Rank Math SEO, acquired the BackWPUp, Adminimize, and Search and Replace plugins.

In acquisition news, Barn2 Plugins purchased the WooCommerce Product Tabs plugin.

Google is getting out of the domain name business and will transfer approximately 10 million domains to Squarespace for management. This is a big boon for Squarespace.

Liquid Web was acquired. That’s a lot of high profile WordPress properties: Liquid Web, Nexcess, StellarWP, Modern Tribe, LearnDash, Kadnece, and others. I didn’t see that coming.