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TechCrunch Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is looking to bulk up its New York-based investing team. The firm is currently looking to hire another New York-based investor with plans to add three or four new people to the team within the next year, Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures, told TechCrunch. "For a venture fund, that's hypergrowth," Shah said, adding that Index is trying to "capitalize on the ecosystem here, and the energy we have as a team."

WordPress.org temporarily lifts its ban on WP Engine WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who has been in a tussle with WP Engine for over a week, blamed WP Engine's private equity investor, Silver Lake.

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. WordPress technology is open source and free, and it powers a huge chunk of the internet — around 40% of websites.