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/...
Sources: Abu Dhabi-based G42 acquired a $100M+ stake in ByteDance at a ~$220B valuation, down from $300B set in a recent buyback, as the US weighs a TikTok ban
a significant discount https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Nothing says ~we are not a national security threat~ like https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Google announces several new high-profile Google cloud clients, including eBay, HSBC, Colgate-Palmolive, and Verizon, which a source says moved from Microsoft
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Source: this summer Facebook tried to buy Snow, a Snapchat clone from Korean firm Naver, which is also behind chat app Line
Vine is Dead — Anyone remember Vine … Katie Collins / CNET : Facebook reportedly tried to buy Snow, a Snapchat-like app Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : @Techmeme you might say it flaked on the...