Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B acquisition of Vimeo in September and its pending acquisition of AOL
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An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, helping Zynga, and more
An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA's KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity. X: @mbromberg and @nepali_investor . LinkedIn: Matthew Bromberg X: Matthew...
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation
Bending Spoons, an Italian holding company that buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, on Thursday announced a $710 million equity raise …
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties
Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.
Sources: Yahoo nears a deal to sell AOL to Italian app developer Bending Spoons for ~$1.4B; AOL.com's traffic has recently grown 20% YoY among users aged 25-54
- Bending Spoons in advanced talks to buy AOL from Yahoo, sources say — The Italian unicorn has been on an acquisition spree, may IPO
Sources: Apollo Global is exploring a sale of AOL in a deal that could value AOL at around $1.5B; Apollo bought AOL in 2021 as part of its $5B Verizon deal
Apollo bought AOL in 2021; a new deal could fetch around $1.5 billion — Apollo Global Management is exploring a sale …
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less compute and is tens of times faster than current methods
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New Weather AI Promises Faster, Low-Cost Forecasting Without Supercompute...
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...
Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company, with a $3.34T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023
It's the most profitable chip brand, too Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Nvidia surges past Microsoft as world's most valuable company Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Nvidia surges past Microsoft, no...