Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift NYT: Technology By: Tripp Mickle 9 April 2024 at 11:00 Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices. Β© Helynn Ospina for The New York TimesA Beeper founder, Eric Migicovsky, said his company was trying to change βapathy about new experiences in chat.β