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Weebly Launches Weebly 4
Weebly Press Release, September 2016

A Complete Platform That Intelligently Unites Websites, Ecommerce, And Marketing In One Place

Kids learn life lessons through cookie-making class
USA Today, May 2016

was looking for ways to minimize my costs. So, I used things like Weebly to create my website to get people to find me,“ says Jackson. Although she’s a small business, she’s giving back in a big way.

Best Website Builder Software: Squarespace vs Wix vs Weebly vs Jimdo
We Rock Your Web, April 2016

Weebly is our 1st choice for website creation software and has the basics to build your website. They don’t overwhelm you with tons of features. This is what makes it so simple and easy to use.

Best Website Builder: Weebly vs Wix vs WordPress
FitSmallBusiness, February 2016

What is the best website builder? After studying 20 of the top options (which was a chore, let me tell you), we whittled them down to Weebly vs Wix vs WordPress.

Weebly Introduces Carbon
Weebly Press Release, October 2015

Featuring App Center, Mobile Drag-and-Drop Editing, Dashboard, New Editor, New Themes, and New Element and REST APIs

Weebly for Hosts Extends Simple Website Creation to Hosting Companies
Weebly Press Release, March 2015

New Reseller Solution Enables Web Hosting Companies to Offer Weebly’s Site Builder to Their Customers

Weebly Brings Industry-First App to Android Tablets
Weebly Press Release, March 2015

Weebly for Android Lets Tablet Users Create and Edit Websites from Anywhere

Weebly Tackles Enterprise Market with New Platform that Enables Businesses to Create and Manage Hundreds of Websites
Weebly Press Release, February 2015

Leading Website Creation Service Combines Powerful Consumer Experience with Full Customization and Management for the Enterprise

Weebly and Square Bring Simple, High-Quality Business Solutions to Stores Looking to Get Online
Weebly Press Release, February 2015

Weebly, a global service that lets anyone create a high-quality website, today announced it is working with Square, a company that brings simple payment and business management solutions to anyone looking to start or grow a business.

Weebly Debuts an iPad App For Building And Managing Websites
TechCrunch, October 2014

Website creation startup Weebly has quietly grown to power a large number of publisher and e-commerce sites over the years, and now it's rolling out a whole new way for users to build experiences on its platform. With the launch of a new iPad app, the company is launching what could be the easiest website creation tool out there.

Weebly website builder comes to iPad with comprehensive app
9to5Mac, October 2014

Weebly, one of the more popular web-based, drag-and-drop solutions for creating websites, has made its way to the iPad for the first time. The app is a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for creating, editing, and managing websites right from the iPad.

New Weebly App Lets You Build a Website Using the iPad
PCMag.com, October 2014

The iPad is no longer just for consuming media and the Web; it can also be used as a content-creation tool. Weebly launched an iPad app that bestows on the iPad one of the most frequently needed types of content-creation: website building.

Weebly Gives Digital Professionals The Freedom of an iPad
Forrester, October 2014

Weebly, supplier and hoster of 25 million content and commerce websites serving 200 million unique visitors monthly, decided to unshackle its digital professional customers from the tyranny of the browser and desktop. It built a native iPad app on iOS 8 to help them build and manage websites from anywhere at anytime.

Weebly brings drag and drop website creation to the iPad
iMore, October 2014

Weebly now allows you to create a website right in the app.

Weebly Unveils iPad App for iOS 8, Empowers Millions of Entrepreneurs with the First Complete Website Creation and Editing Experience for iPad
Weebly Press Release, October 2014

With More than 25M Sites Created and Over 200M Unique Visitors To Weebly Sites Monthly, Weebly Sets New Standard In Website Creation.

#1 Rated Website Creation Service on PCMag.com
PCMag.com, July 2014

With the clearest site-building interface of them all, along with free accounts, site stats, and downloadable source code, Weebly is definitely worth a look for any would-be website maker.

Weebly expands build-your-own website business to Arizona
Arizona Republic, June 2014

Arizona's technology industry keeps getting bigger. Weebly, a global website builder, has signed a five-year office lease in Scottsdale for space that will serve as the company's North American customer operations headquarters.

Exclusive: Weebly expanding into Scottsdale, plans to hire 250
Phoenix Business Journal, June 2014

Weebly, a San Francisco-based website creation service, has picked Scottsdale for its North American customer operations headquarters, with plans to open the local office Monday and hire more than 250 employees over the next three years.

For some, starting a business is scarier than skydiving
USA TODAY, April 2014

For about a third of Americans, the idea of starting their own company is more frightening than skydiving — even as they dream of quitting their jobs and pursuing their passions.

Weebly Valued at $455 Million Amid Website-Building Boom
Wall Street Journal, April 2014

Weebly has been valued at $455 million in a new round of funding from investors eager to cash in on a recent boom in website-creation services.

Website-Building Platform Weebly Raises $35M More
TechCrunch, April 2014

Weebly, which offers easy-to-use tools for building websites, announced today that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding.

Weebly races WordPress around the world, takes $35M
Venturebeat, April 2014

Website-building service Weebly is joining the fray with its announcement that it has grabbed a new $35 million as its third round of institutional funding from Sequoia Capital and Tencent Holdings, Ltd.

Weebly gets $35 million for website building service
San Francisco Business Times, April 2014

Weebly, a profitable San Francisco web-hosting service that provides a drag-and-drop website builder, has raised a $35 million Series C round of funding valuing the company at $455 million from prior investors Sequoia Capital and Tencent Holdings, the mammoth Chinese Internet services holding company.

Weebly Raises $35M Series C To Accelerate Global Growth
Weebly Press Release, April 2014

Online Website Creation Service Sets Sights on Empowering the Personal Economy Worldwide

Weebly Launches 'Start Your Something' To Fuel Worldwide Entrepreneurship
Weebly Press Release, April 2014

Website Creation Service Introduces Inspiration Center; Providing Resources to Empower Millions More Entrepreneurs to Start Something of Their Own

Weebly Website Creator Attracts Online Sellers with Store Features
eCommerce Bytes, December 2013

If eBay was ecommerce 1.0 and Etsy 2.0 for craftspeople and other small business owners, the 3.0 incarnations are sites like Weebly.

9 tech startup CEOs on the best and worst of 2013
Fortune, December 2013

If Silicon Valley is known for anything, it's breakneck innovation, consequences often be damned. Startups debut promising ideas -- or execute an already existing idea better.

Weebly e-commerce offering targets highly mobile entrepreneurs
ZDNet, December 2013

The service, which supports international transactions and can be updated via a mobile device, currently supports more than 30,000 active stores.

"Start Something": Weebly CEO Shares E-Commerce Startup Tips for 2014
Business News Daily, December 2013

Is your New Year's resolution to start your own business? With the holiday rush and seasonal specials coming to an end, this could be the ideal time of the year to plan and launch a new startup.

Silicon Valley tech firms flock to San Francisco
San Francisco Business Times, November 2013

Silicon Valley companies are migrating north and expanding their square footage in San Francisco to attract top talent.

With 20m sites on its platform, Weebly rivals Shopify with launch of new e-commerce offering
The Next Web, November 2013

Easy website creation service Weebly is unveiling a new offering that will enable users to create their own e-commerce site. This product includes a mobile store and checkout, filtered search capability, an advanced way to display merchandise, and an integrated shopping cart.

A tiny web merchant, but a global reach
Internet Retailer, November 2013

Kimberly Beers, an environmental scientist at a New Hampshire public health laboratory, sells about 20 varieties of her own self-designed “non-toxic” pet toys made from recycled items like used tennis balls on her e-commerce site, WoofPurr.com, to customers throughout the country and the globe. But until last month she refrained from processing those sales through her own online shopping cart.

With 30K Active Online Stores, Weebly Launches DIY eCommerce Platform To Take On Amazon And Shopify
TechCrunch, November 2013

On the heels of Wix’s debut on the NASDAQ this morning, another veteran website builder is responding with some big news of its own. Since launching in 2006 (the same year as Wix), Weebly has taken a slightly different approach to website creation than its competitors: By catering to entrepreneurs.

Weebly Launches E-Commerce Tools To Lure Entrepreneurs From Amazon
Forbes, November 2013

It’s been said that under half the businesses in the United States don’t have a presence on the web beyond a quick listing by Google GOOG -0.9%. Part of the reason is that website hosting can be expensive and complicated. Website builder Weebly, which says it hosts blogs and websites for 20 million people, wants to tackle the problem by appealing to part-time entrepreneurs who’d like an online store, but can’t afford the real estate.

Weebly arms entrepreneurs with superior eCommerce to boost shopper experience and sell more both online and on mobile
Weebly Press Release, November 2013

Weebly Announces 20M Sites Created With Over 30K Active Online Stores Doing $13M in Monthly Sales; Now Seeing 8M Monthly Global Shoppers

How to make your own website for free
USA TODAY, September 2013

What do Hostess Twinkies, Yahoo and even wristwatches have in common with a personal website in 2013? They're all making a comeback. That's right, in this social-media-savvy age a more personal-personal site is more "stand out of the crowd" than Facebook and more "beyond 140-characters" than Twitter.

8 Amazing Job Benefits That Keep Employees Happy
BusinessNewsDaily, September 2013

Extra credit – At Weebly, every employee gets a company credit card, presumably for anything they might need during the work day (which, like at Netflix, has no set hours). As if that isn't enough, the Web hosting company also provides a $50 monthly credit to Exec, a housecleaning and errand-running service for when its workers are too busy enjoying their free meals, gym membership or bi-monthly massage.

As Wix Heads Toward IPO, Weebly Looks To Expand With Big New SF Headquarters, Plans To Add 500+ Employees
TechCrunch, August 2013

Weebly, the service that lets you, your grandma and anyone else build a website for free, is growing fast. The startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2007 and today hosts over 15 million sites, which together see more than 100 million unique visitors each month. But they also expect this growth to continue, as Weebly co-founder David Rusenko tells us that his company has signed a lease on 36,000-square feet of a historic warehouse in SOMA in downtown San Francisco, which will become its new headquarters.

Fast-Growing Weebly To Anchor SoMa's Newest Creative Building
San Francisco Business Times, August 2013

Less than two months after starting the renovation of an historic warehouse at 460 Bryant, developer Scott Haskins of Sierra Maestra Properties has already landed its anchor tenant.

Dan Veltri: The Difference Between Success and Failure
The Wall Street Journal, August 2013

As three inexperienced college students, an accelerator program, which offered seed funding, along with mentorship, provided the opportunity we needed to take Weebly from a passion project to a full-time startup. As luck would have it, we stumbled on Y Combinator on the very last day of submission and before we knew it, we were packing up our servers and making the cross-country trek to Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley Start-Ups Take Perks To New Level
CNBC, August 2013

Most people consider themselves lucky if they can land a job with above average pay, a 401(k) and a healthy number of paid vacation days. But in Silicon Valley, that's just where the benefits begin.

Could This Cardboard Furniture Replace Your Ikea Chairs And Bookshelves?
Fast Company Co.EXIST, July 2013

Eventually, Rotholz decided to take his idea to the next level, spending a summer at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute before launching Chairigami. The entire operation was bootstrapped: Rotholz used his $5,000 of bar mitzvah money to launch the company, which now sells most of its products online via a free Weebly website.

Webscape: Animation tools
BBC World News TV, July 2013

Building a website has never been easier. Weebly's drag and drop interface could have you up and running with your own dedicated website featuring images, video and even e-commerce, in under 15 minutes.

David Rusenko: When You Can't Find the Right Name, Create One
The Wall Street Journal, July 2013

Coming up with a great name is hard. You want to choose something that fits your startup idea but also offers flexibility as you grow and evolve your company over time. I often get questioned about how we came up with the name Weebly.

Planning for Another 100 Million Web Sites
The New York Times, May 2013

More than 20 years after the advent of the World Wide Web, some might argue that it has already yielded a surfeit of Web pages, mobile sites, and the digital equivalent of shiny time wasters.

Weebly Overhauls Website Launching Pad
WSJ, May 2013

Websites are starting to seem pretty old school, as businesses rush to use Facebook, Twitter and other newer mechanisms to reach customers. Weebly doesn't see it that way.

Weebly refreshes its website publishing tools
Reuters, May 2013

For futurists in Silicon Valley, the question is fundamental, almost philosophical: In the coming years, will the humble website still be the dominant way we interact with the Internet?

With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service to Android
TechCrunch, May 2013

In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It's just the way it is. Some might opt just to go for a social media approach, a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but the likelihood is that you want something a little more flexible, high-quality and something that gives you more control over the user experience.

Designing a website is easier than you think
FoxNews.com Live, May 2013

David Rusenko, CEO of Weebly, with tips on how to productively navigate the complex world of web design.

DIY Web builder Weebly launches an Android app, along with a mobile and HTML5 site creator
THE NEXT WEB, May 2013

Weebly, the do-it-yourself site builders, announced the launch of several new features, including the release of its Android app and a creator tool to product HTML5 and mobile sites.

Weebly empowers millions to start something and unveils all new service for creating unique sites
Weebly Press Release, May 2013

Weebly Releases Industry-First Interactive Site Planner and Mobile Site Editing Capabilities, A New Android App, Plus An All New, Powerful HTML5 Site Creator. Global Website Creation Service Announces More Than 100M Unique Visitors to Over 15M Weebly Sites Monthly.

20 best Android apps this week
The Guardian, May 2013

Blogging platform Weebly now has an Android app, aimed at getting a few more of its "millions" of users blogging from their smartphones as well as their computers. The app lets you post, check stats and respond to comments, and can be used to start a blog if you're not already a Weebly user.

Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out
Android and Me, May 2013

Weebly gives everyone a surprisingly easy way to create a high-quality site that they are proud to share. Millions of people have started a site, blog or online store on Weebly and you can too. Weebly sites work brilliantly on computers, phones and tablets. From your Android, Weebly helps you start a new blog or manage your existing Weebly blog or site when on the go.

Weebly Mobile Application Comes to Android!
Cult of Android, April 2013

If you're a blogger, I'm sure you've heard of the popular blog and website platform, Weebly – and now the developers have released an official Weebly application for Android. The application brings site management, statistics, posting capability and push notifications for comments, form entries and site errors.

Weebly Releases Official Android App, Makes Mobile Blogging Even Easier
Android Police, April 2013

Blogging is a cruel mix of trying to come up with interesting content and struggling with the software to make a good site. For people who don't want to partake in epic battles against WordPress but need a little more control than Tumblr has to offer, Weebly provides a simple drag-and-drop interface and professional templates to quickly build a great looking platform on which to share your thoughts.

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