This article is a good summary of what we know so far.

Automattic is a platinum sponsor of the PHP Foundation and Anne McCarthy has joined the foundation’s board. Supporting other open source projects is something that Automattic does right, and it benefits us all.

PHP is the underlying language used with WordPress and using it is part of the project’s success. PHP-based hosting is easy to setup and relatively inexpensive.

Two agency owners have been allowed to continue with their class action against Automattic. They host their sites with WP Engine and allege Automattic’s actions against WP Engine hurt their business.

WP Engine has updated their claims against Matt Mullenweg and Automattic based on documents received during the discovery phase of the trial. In these documents WP Engine found that Matt and Automattic had a list of 10 hosting companies they planned to go after for trademark licensing fees and that Matt tried to make Stripe drop WP Engine as a customer. There is more information in the article by Roger Montti.

404 Media summarizes the trademark issue between Matt Mullenweg / Automattic and Kevin Geary / Automatic.CSS. Automattic has asked that the Automatic.CSS product name be changed.

The Github repository for the starter theme Underscores _s has been archived.

Automattic’s Trademark application for “Managed WordPress” and “Hosted WordPress” was rejected. Automattic may be able to add qualifications and exclusions to try to get it through.

WordPress users on dot com now have enhanced code editors available for post, site, and the additional CSS input boxes. It is not certain if these features will be added to the dot org version of WordPress, though usually they are.

Automattic has purchased Clay, a relationship management tool.