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Automattic today announced it has acquired long-form content aggregator Longreads. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Longreads was founded five years ago in April 2009 as a service dedicated to helping readers “find and share the best storytelling in the world, including both nonfiction and fiction.” The only requirement is that the content shared in question is over 1,500 words. Longreads Founder Mark Armstrong says Longreads’ goals and Automattic’s goals are complementary: “For us it is to serve readers the best storytelling in the world, and for Automattic it’s to power a world where publishers and writers have…

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Although the PC market continues to fall, having now seen its eighth consecutive quarter of declining worldwide shipments, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, according to Gartner, a 1.7 percent decrease from the same period last year. That’s still a drop, but a significantly smaller one: in Q1 2013, the PC shipment decline was a whopping 13.9 percent, followed by drops of 10.9 percent, 8.6 percent, and 6.9 percent for the remaining quarters of last year. Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Asus all…

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