Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed
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
Bain Capital agrees to acquire a majority stake in Italian IT company Namirial from private equity firm Ambienta, a deal sources say values Namirial at €1.1B
Bain Capital agreed to acquire a majority stake in Namirial SpA from private equity firm Ambienta. … It didn't provide financial terms.
Tether's venture arm acquires a minority stake in Italian football club Juventus, as part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into sports franchises
Tether Holdings SA de CV said it's acquired a minority stake in Juventus Football Club SpA, as one of crypto's most valuable companies continues …
Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons plans to take cloud video management and monetization platform Brightcove private in a deal valued at $233M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
EssilorLuxottica gives “full support” to Chief Strategy Officer Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio after an Italian hacking probe; the company is not part of the probe
Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli / Financial Times :
A profile of Italian private equity firm Bending Spoons, which has acquired distressed SaaS businesses like WeTransfer and Evernote, and plans to spend billions
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : X: @bw X: @bw : After buying Evernote, cutting staff and raising prices, Bending Spoons is looking for its next deal https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Vodafone sells its Italian business to Switzerland's Swisscom for €8B in cash and plans a ~€4B stock buyback; Swisscom will merge Vodafone Italia with Fastweb
- Vodafone also announced plans for a €4 billion share buyback — Sale to Swisscom will create a new market dynamic in Italy