Six Apart the company behind TypePad and Movable Type is to be acquired by VideoEgg. As part of the acquisition, both TypePad and Movable Type will be renamed SAY Media.
Six Apart, founded in 2001 by Ben and Mena Trott, is one the pioneers of blogging. VideoEgg, which launched at the DEMO Conference in 2005, originally was a video publishing service, but has since rebranded itself as an advertising network.
Both TypePad and Movable Type have been hit by the success of WordPress.