Yeah, "hold off funding announcements until we've got something else we want to push into the news" was a pretty common thing in my experience as well. I'm som

Yeah, "hold off funding announcements until we've got something else we want to push into the news" was a pretty common thing in my experience as well. I'm somewhat sympathetic to both the press and the readers here - they want to report/read news. Events. "Company X continues to exist" isn't really news. And "Company X adds new feature Y" is rarely noteworthy news, no matter how big a deal it is in Company X. Sometimes new features are news if either the company is huge ("Amazon adds support for Foo to AWSBar") or it's strategically significant ("Company X adds feature Y, now putting it in direct competition with Company Z"), but I think those are the exceptions.