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Six Apart

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Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate around the world every day. The company provides the Movable Type social publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families, advertising solutions for leading brands and influential bloggers, and a wide range of services dedicated to help bloggers thrive in today’s social media landscape. Six Apart owned and operated Livejournal, a widely popular personal blogging community, from January 2005 to December 2007.

The main competitors to Movable Type and Typepad are WordPress.com and Xanga, respectively.

Milestones

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  Six Apart acquired Pownce. (12/1/08)
  Posted 12/3/08 at 5:05pm
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  Six Apart — Six Apart parterns with Jumpbox create a virtual Movable Type Application. (9/17/08)
  Posted 9/23/08 at 11:26am
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  Six Apart acquired Apperceptive. (4/20/08)
  Posted 4/20/08 at 8:46pm
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  Six Apart added David Tokheim as EVP & GM, Media. (2007)
  Posted 4/21/08 at 1:02pm
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  Six Apart acquired Rojo. (9/7/06)
  Posted 9/5/08 at 12:17pm
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  Six Apart received $12M in Series C funding. (3/1/06)
  Posted 8/15/07 at 9:32pm
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  Six Apart received $10M in Series B funding. (10/1/04)
  Posted 8/15/07 at 9:30pm
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  Six Apart added Andrew Anker as EVP, Corporate Development. (2004)
  Posted 4/21/08 at 1:02pm
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  Six Apart received $600k in Series A funding. (4/23/03)
  Posted 4/21/08 at 12:55pm
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  Six Apart added David Recordon as Director, Corporate Development.
  Posted 5/20/08 at 10:50am
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  Six Apart added Mena Trott as President & Co-founder.
  Posted 12/31/08 at 1:59pm
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  Six Apart added Chris Alden as CEO & Chairman.
  Posted 12/31/08 at 1:59pm
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  Six Apart added Leah Culver as Software Engineer.
  Posted 12/1/08 at 3:31pm
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  Six Apart added Martin Atkins as Software Engineer.
  Posted 11/15/08 at 9:38pm
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  Six Apart added Tatsuhiko Miyagawa as Software Engineer.
  Posted 10/24/08 at 7:09pm
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  Six Apart added Kimmie Nguyen as Product Manager.
  Posted 7/28/08 at 12:52pm

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1. Welcome Pownce team! (sixapart.com) [edit]
2. Six Apart Launches Ad Network, Moves Into Services (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Six Apart buys feed reader company Rojo (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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7. Six Apart and JumpBox Announce Virtual Movable Type (sixapart.com) [edit]