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Digital experience platform (DXP) Ibexa and Product Information Management (PIM) solution Quable have announced a merger. The two companies aim to accelerate their development plans and offer customers a unified and composable platform to simplify the management of all their digital experiences. 

“We take great pride in being able to support the ongoing success of Quable. It is a company we already know very well, a real French gem of a company and a strong leader in the PIM market,” said Ibexa CEO Bertrand Maugain. 

Elsewhere, Optimizely recaps a brilliant 2024, and WordPress is in the news again.

Featured Stories

• Optimizely Caps off 2024 by Celebrating a Banner Year of Growth and Innovation: “At Optimizely, we have taken big strides over the past year to be the go-to platform for marketing. Marketers’ time should be spent on creating and optimizing great digital experiences that lead to measurable growth, not on menial tasks or guess work.”

• Verndale Wins Optimizely Customer Choice Partner of the Year Award: “This recognition reflects our team’s relentless focus on delivering high-quality solutions tailored to our clients’ unique needs.”

• Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?: “Over the course of about six weeks, the WordPress world seemed to devolve from productive harmony into discord and confusion, as Mullenweg pressed his attacks and WP Engine fired off legal salvos, leaving customers and community members stunned and appalled.”

• Mullenweg Pauses WordPress Services – Hopes To Reopen Next Year: “Mullenweg published a post on the official WordPress blog to announce a pause in free services offered by WordPress.org to give the “many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays.””

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Stories that caught our eye

1. Contentstack Redefines Experiences with AI and Headless CMS: An interview with co-founder and CEO Nishant Patel. 

2. Yoast Co-Founder Calls For WordPress Leadership Change: The disruption in the WordPress community continues.

The word on the street…

1. [LinkedIn]: Principles of content management: VP of Digital Experience at Valtech Deane Barker outlines some principles of content management.

2. [Reddit]: WordPress is dead: Some Redditors aren’t too optimistic about the future of WordPress.