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fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about Eventbrite's acquirer | TechCrunch

Bending Spoons acquired Eventbrite for $500 million and specializes in buying underperforming but popular tech brands, restructuring them often through layoffs and product changes.
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1 week ago

Bending Spoons agrees to buy Eventbrite for $500M to revive stalled brand | TechCrunch

Bending Spoons will buy Eventbrite for about $500 million and plans to revive profitability through cost cuts, price increases, and new product features.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Bending Spoons is buying AOL for some reason

Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that has bought up a range of other digital businesses like Evernote, MeetUp, WeTransfer, and soon Vimeo, announced plans to purchase AOL from Yahoo after securing a $2.8 billion debt financing package. Over the past couple of decades, AOL has been passed from company to company, merging with Time Warner in 2001 before getting spun off and sold to Verizon in 2015 for $4.4 billion.
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fromMashable
1 month ago

AOL to be acquired for $1.5 billion by company that bought Vimeo, Evernote

Bending Spoons bought AOL from Yahoo for $1.5 billion, will invest in the product, and financed the acquisition with $2.8 billion in debt.
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fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about AOL's acquirer | TechCrunch

Four Bending Spoons cofounders became billionaires after a funding and secondary share sale valued their stakes at roughly $1.3–$1.4 billion each.
fromRAIN News
2 months ago

Vimeo reportedly acquired by digital tech company Bending Spoons; will go private

In our nine years of covering video platform Vimeo, we have seen it win legal appeals related to copyright issues around pre-1972 music uploads, and the installation of CEO Anjali Sud in 2017. Most recently in January, the company persevered in a copyright lawsuit with major music labels. Today we learn that Vimeo has agreed to an acquisition by European digital technology company Bending Spoons.
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