#bendingspoons — Public Fediverse posts

Eventbrite got Komooted.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bending-spoons-cuts-eventbrite-staff-rolls-out-product-changes-after-takeover-2026-04-13/

#enshittification #BendingSpoons

Rushes Is a New Creator-Focused Vimeo Alternative https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/rushes-is-a-new-creator-focused-vimeo-alternative/ #bendingspoons #Websites #rushes #video #vimeo #News

Das #FuckYou des Monats geht raus an #BendingSpoons, den Software Entwicklern des #KI Support Bots und ans Management und die Investoren, die #Komoot gegen die Wand gefahren haben. Und jetzt alle miteinander 🎵 https://youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE

Das #FuckYou des Monats geht raus an #BendingSpoons, den Software Entwicklern des #KI Support Bots und ans Management und die Investoren, die #Komoot gegen die Wand gefahren haben. Und jetzt alle miteinander 🎵 https://youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE

Das #FuckYou des Monats geht raus an #BendingSpoons, den Software Entwicklern des #KI Support Bots und ans Management und die Investoren, die #Komoot gegen die Wand gefahren haben. Und jetzt alle miteinander 🎵 https://youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE

@kiki #BendingSpoons - die Heuschrecken der „netten“ Apps.

Was immer die in ihre gicht-verkrümmten Krallen bekommen wird ausgesaugt und bis zur Unnutzbarkeit verstümmelt.

#komoot erging es genau so.

Und natürlich werden Mitarbeitende „dem Arbeitsmarkt zugeführt“.

@finnmyrstad @pluralistic There is at least one company name to remember and run if they touch one of your products: bending spoons.
There may be more vulture funds trashing our beloved tools, but #BendingSpoons has a master plan and acquires services with lots of users to maximise the damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons#Acquisitions
#Enshittification

Why is Komoot acquisition by Bending Spoons presented to be soooo bad?

Sure, they fired a lot of people. But if they managed to do that AND finally did a modern redesign and started finally adding new features AND they do it at much faster pace than before, then my question is, what those people were doing there in the first place?

Sure, asking to subscribe all the time might be a bit annoying, but what's more?

#komoot #bendingspoons #outdoor #hiking #justarandomthought

Das neuste Opfer dieser Strategie ist die Videostreaming-Plattform Vimeo. Wenige Monate nach der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons wurden weltweit Mitarbeiter entlassen. Wie Slashdot schreibt, handelt es sich dabei um grosse Teile des Unternehmens. Unter anderem soll das gesamte Video-Team abgebaut worden sein, auch in der IT-Entwicklungsabteilung wurden viele entlassen. Was dies für die Zukunft des Produkts an sich heisst, kann man sich leicht selber ausmalen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-billion-sale-to-bending-spoons-2026-1

@kottke #BendingSpoons - the undertaker of digital companies.

What do they do with all the user data they collect from #evernote #Komoot and #vimeo ?

Vimeo, jakie znaliśmy, właśnie przestało istnieć. Nowy właściciel zwolnił „większość załogi”, w tym cały zespół od wideo

Jeśli trzymasz swoje portfolio na Vimeo, zrób kopię zapasową. Natychmiast. Serwis, który przez dwie dekady był profesjonalną alternatywą dla YouTube’a, właśnie padł ofiarą brutalnej restrukturyzacji.

Nowy właściciel, fundusz Bending Spoons, zastosował swoją ulubioną taktykę: kupić, zwolnić, wycisnąć.

Rzeź wideo w serwisie wideo

Wiadomość brzmi jak ponury żart, ale niestety jest prawdziwa. Jak donosi Engadget i Business Insider, zaledwie kilka miesięcy po przejęciu Vimeo za 1,38 miliarda dolarów, firma Bending Spoons przeprowadziła masowe zwolnienia.

Pracownicy donoszą w mediach społecznościowych, że pracę straciła „większość firmy”. Najbardziej szokujący jest jednak szczegół ujawniony przez jednego z inżynierów: zwolniono cały zespół odpowiedzialny za technologię wideo. Tak, dobrze czytacie. Platforma hostingowa nie ma już ludzi, którzy rozwijają technologię hostowania.

„To smutne patrzeć, jak coś, co zbudowałem, jest zabijane przez private equity noszące skórę firmy technologicznej jako przebranie” – napisał jeden z byłych pracowników na serwisie X.

Metoda „na Bending Spoons”

Dla obserwatorów rynku tech to niestety żadne zaskoczenie. Włoska firma Bending Spoons (o ironicznej nazwie nawiązującej do Matrixa) w ostatnich latach stała się grabarzem lubianych narzędzi kreatywnych. Schemat zawsze jest ten sam:

• Evernote (2023): przejęcie, drastyczne podwyżki cen, zwolnienie niemal całej załogi w USA i przeniesienie szczątkowego rozwoju do Europy.
• WeTransfer (2024): przejęcie, natychmiastowe cięcia kadrowe (zwolniono 75% załogi).
• Vimeo (2026): scenariusz się powtarza.

Oficjalny komunikat rzecznika Bending Spoons brzmi jak korporacyjna nowomowa w najgorszym wydaniu: „Jesteśmy zaangażowani w rozwój Vimeo, aby spełniać potrzeby naszej zróżnicowanej bazy użytkowników”. Trudno uwierzyć w rozwój, gdy wyrzuca się ludzi, którzy ten produkt tworzą.

Co to oznacza dla Ciebie?

Vimeo przez lata było domem dla „high-endowego” kontentu. Brak reklam, świetny odtwarzacz, opcje prywatności – to przyciągało profesjonalistów. Dziś przyszłość platformy stoi pod znakiem zapytania. Z „wydmuszkową” załogą serwis pewnie będzie działał (serwery nie wybuchną jutro), ale można spodziewać się:

• Braku nowych funkcji.
• Pogorszenia supportu.
• Agresywnego monetyzowania użytkowników (jeszcze wyższe ceny subskrypcji).

Jeśli Twoja firma polega na Vimeo jako głównym archiwum wideo – czas poszukać alternatywy. Vimeo to już nie jest firma technologiczna. To arkusz w Excelu.

Jak korzystam ze Stage Managera w iPadOS, aby zmaksymalizować produktywność i skupienie

GOLEM: Teure Notizen-App: #Evernote-Nutzer mit massiven Preissteigerungen konfrontiert https://www.golem.de/news/teure-notizen-app-evernote-nutzer-mit-massiven-preissteigerungen-konfrontiert-2601-204498.html
„Wird nicht rechtzeitig widersprochen, drängt Evernote Privat- und Enterprise-Kunden automatisch in den jeweils teuersten Plan.“
#BendingSpoons = Saftladen.
#enshittification

Vimeo just lost most of its staff, including open source contributors: Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons eliminates substantial portion of workforce at acquired video platform following $1.38 billion September deal. https://ppc.land/vimeo-just-lost-most-of-its-staff-including-open-source-contributors/ #Vimeo #BendingSpoons #VideoPlatform #TechNews #OpenSource

Almost All of Vimeo Staff Laid Off After Acquisition by Bending Spoons https://petapixel.com/2026/01/23/almost-all-of-vimeo-staff-laid-off-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons/ #bendingspoons #videosharing #Websites #industry #video #vimeo #News

Bending Spoons: Where apps go to find a peaceful afterlife – or a profitable second act. 🏛️

The "Netflix of App Developers" has built an empire by acquiring legacy tools like Evernote and Meetup. While some call it a cemetery for once-great software, others see a masterclass in monetization. They don't just buy apps; they gut the bloat and hike the prices. 📈

Is it a ruthless execution of business or the end of innovation? 🧐

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

#BendingSpoons #TechStrategy #BusinessGrowth

I'm just so glad that I didn't decide to rely on vimeo for hosting my videos. I got aware of peertube just at the right time.

Besides that I really wonder how bending spoons manages to continue service when firing the staff. On the other hand, maybe the systems are just well developed and thus quite robust.

https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-billion-sale-to-bending-spoons-2026-1

#vimeo #BendingSpoons #peertube

@NatureMC @liaizon @peertube oh #BendingSpoons again

https://www.europesays.com/it/309327/ Bending Spoons sceglie le banche per la quotazione a Wall Street: obiettivo S&P500 per l’unicorno italiano delle app #Acquisizioni #Affari #app #aziende #banche #bending #BendingSpoons #Business #capitale #consorzio #corriere #dollari #dovrebbero #entrare #eventbrite #far #fonti #goldman #GoldmanSachs #GoldmanSachsMorgan #investitori #IT #Italia #Italy #jp #JpMorgan #morgan #spoons #street #valutazione #wall #WallStreet

@Printdevil Indeed, they were bought out by private equity (Bending Spoons) end of last year.

#BendingSpoons are well-known for the #enshittification of companies in their portfolio. Their playbook is buy company → screw the employees (massive layoffs) → screw the customers (higher prices for a worse service) → vampirically suck all the value out for shareholders.

#Bikepacking gave a pretty good analysis after BS bought #Komoot last year:
https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

@martinsteiger
Always when I read the company's name #BendingSpoons I think of Uri Geller who tries to convince people it was some kind of magic energy of his mind while everybody knows it's just a cheap trick and you end up with two unusable, broken spoons.

So the name of the company leaves little room for surprises.

#Nalden, co-founder of #WeTransfer, is building #Boomerang, a #filetransfer service prioritising #simplicity and #userexperience. He criticises WeTransfer’s changes post-acquisition by #BendingSpoons, including unclear transfer link modifications, staff layoffs, and controversial AI model training. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/why-wetransfer-co-founder-is-building-another-file-transfer-service/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Ah cool. #wanderer kannte ich noch nicht. Muss ich mir unbedingt ansehen. Ich vermute aber, dass es da kaum Touren zu entdecken und sicher auch keine Funktion "ans GPS Gerät senden" gibt.

Allein die #Usability von #Komoot hat imho enorm gelitten:
Seit wann
a) werden einem bei gemachten Touren keine Untergrund Infos (Anteil an Singletrail etc.) mehr angezeigt?
b) kann man eine gemachte Tour nicht mehr ans Gerät senden/navigieren, ohne dass man daraus eine neue geplante Tour machen muss?
c) wird bei der Suche in der Liste der gefundenen Touren keine Vorschau in der Karte, sondern völlig uninformative Fotos angezeigt?

Komoot wird seit der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons - Überraschung - schlechter statt besser.

🤷🤦🤡🤮🤮🤮

Gibt es eigentlich eine gehostete Variante von #mobilizon? #fediverse (will raus aus dem #BendingSpoons Universum)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ednl/115249909683238207

‪And there we have it: Vimeo now imposes a blanket age verification requirement in the whole of the UK+EU despite this not being necessary in the EU (unless <intricate specifics>).

#vimeo #bendingspoons

@StephanB @pasco11 I loved Komoot, but unfortunately it was taken over by #BendingSpoons so I'm looking for alternatives. #bikerouter looks promising, also https://cycle.travel

After Bending Spoons bought Evernote, you can safely mark 2022 as the product's date of death. They literally fired everyone who worked on it, killed the old non‑Electron app, raised prices to insane levels, and still pretend it's the same Evernote “we all knew” and even better.

Now they want $250/year just so I can keep my 5k+ notes accessible (the "Starter" plan doesn’t cut it). They even charge just to view your own notes. It’s absurd.

Recently they’ve also bought great products like Komoot, WeTransfer, and Issuu, and I bet they'll all face the same enshittification: mass layoffs of passionate teams and massive price hikes.

Evernote used to be a must‑have app - stable, powerful, and reliable (yes, not perfect).

Now it's a bloated ghost-app riding the AI hype while ignoring the basics that used to make it great.

Stay away from Evernote. Stay away from anything Bending Spoons touches. 
And if you want to feel what we've actually lost, watch Komoot’s farewell video - it's heartbreaking:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI

#bendingspoons #evernote #thoughts #ai #komoot #evernote #app #notetaking #electron #internet #subscriptions #komoot

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Après Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote… Eventbrite racheté par Bending Spoons pour 500 millions de dollar
https://mac4ever.com/193476
#Mac4Ever #bendingspoons #eventbrite

Bending Spoons, a company that's served over a billion people with its portfolio, is largely unknown but just acquired Eventbrite! It's wild how many tech giants operate under the radar. What other massive companies do you think we're all using without realizing?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
#TechNews #MergersAndAcquisitions #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite #UnderTheRadar

Après Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer ou AOL, Bending Spoons se paye la billetterie Eventbrite http://dlvr.it/TPcFl8 #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite

L’azienda italiana #BendingSpoons ha detto che acquisirà la piattaforma per eventi #Eventbrite per 500 milioni di dollari

Beh... è chiaramente ora di passare a #Mobilizon
https://mobilizon.it

Oki doki, #BendingSpoons hat dann auch noch #Eventbrite gekauft…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-eventbrite-for-500m-to-revive-stalled-brand/

Diese Monopole die entstehen, sind schon klasse. Markt ist am regeln am tun.

Bending Spoons compra Eventbrite per 500 milioni di dollari
La piattaforma di biglietteria passa a Milano 🎟️

#Eventbrite #BendingSpoons #TechNews

#Eventbrite to be acquired by #BendingSpoons, following their acquisition of #Meetup.com which caused many users to migrate to Eventbrite in the first place. I think at this point it becomes very obvious that the #Fediverse is the best place to coordinate your meetups, and you have many options to choose from: #Mobilizon, #Gancio and even #Wordpress with the #ActivityPub Event Bridge plugin. Everyone knows Bending Spoon's playbook, enshittification is inevitable.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251202408560/en/Eventbrite-Enters-into-Definitive-Agreement-to-Be-Acquired-by-Bending-Spoons-for-Roughly-%24500-Million-to-Accelerate-Eventbrites-Next-Phase-of-Growth

"Italian firm #BendingSpoons has been buying up apps – #Komoot #Meetup #WeTransfer #Evernote – and users complain that they've gotten more expensive since.

After many of these acquisitions, Bending Spoons has followed the same pattern. It starts with a massive round of redundancies, followed by a price increase and radical changes to the way the app works. This allows the company to significantly boost its profits immediately after purchase."

From @FTM_eu

https://www.ftm.eu/articles/wetransfer-owner-buys-up-apps-then-makes-them-more-expensive

Weekly output: phone plans, Nvidia keynote, passkey adoption, Bending Spoons buys AOL, SpaceX simplifying Starship lander, Internet luminaries on the open Web

This is not going to be a great week for normal sleep cycles: Tuesday, I will wake up at around 4 a.m. to spend a 15-plus hour shift working as an election officer for Arlington, and then Wednesday I’m off to Dulles Airport for this year’s final business trip across the Atlantic. I’m departing for Web Summit in Lisbon several days early because the organizers of another conference, the Mozilla Festival, offered a press pass and a travel stipend to cover that event in Barcelona. I’ve heard good things about this conference over the years, so accepting an invitation to spend a few days in one of my favorite cities in Europe was an easy call.

In addition to what you see below, Patreon readers got a detailed recap of how this past week’s event-packed schedule left its own series of dents in my calendar.

10/28/2025: The Best Cell Phone Plans, Wirecutter

This was going to be a modest update to the guide that I’ve been maintaining since 2014, but T-Mobile jacking up prices while AT&T and Verizon inflicted more modest rate hikes led to us dethroning T-Mo on cost grounds and handing our “for most people” pick to AT&T, which has advanced its own 5G network considerably.

10/28/2025: In DC, Nvidia CEO Touts New AI Partnerships, Goes a Little MAGA, PCMag

Heading into Nvidia’s conference, I was worried that CEO Jensen Huang would go into the weeds about the finer points of GPU architecture. Instead, he used this nearly two-hour keynote to jump from topic to topic without getting into too much detail about any of them–and kept coming back to opportunities to praise President Trump.

10/29/2025: Passkey Adoption Sees Striking Progress, With One Obvious Leader, PCMag

I struggled to get this written at the end of a long workday, resulting in my getting some nuances wrong that required updating the post the next morning.

11/1/2025: Serial Dot-Com Purchaser Bending Spoons to Buy AOL, But Why?, PCMag

Writing about AOL in 2025 makes me feel so old, but as one of PCMag’s graybeards I had to cover the news of Bending Spoons buying the company that once ruled the online world. I got to this story a day after it broke, so I turned that lag into an opportunity to expand the piece with some quotes from a publicist for that Italian firm and from a podcast interview of its CEO Luca Ferrari last year

11/1/2025: After Elon Tantrum, SpaceX Now Prepping ‘Simplified’ Starship-Based Lunar Lander, PCMag

Since I wrote about Elon Musk’s childish reaction to NASA’s understandable concern over the pace of its Human Landing System work, I had to reach for a keyboard to cover SpaceX’s grown-up corporate response.

11/1/2025: ‘The Truth Is Paywalled.’ Internet Vets Lament the State of the ‘Open’ Web, PCMag

This Monday-evening panel was one of the first items on my calendar this week, but having event after event after event follow it led to me not writing it up until Thursday night. Once again, it was a serious treat to hear some of the Internet’s founding figures talk about the state of the thing they invented.

#AmericaOnline #AOL #ArtemisIII #ATT #BendingSpoons #BrewsterKahle #CindyCohn #Dashlane #FoundationForAmericanInnovation #HumanLandingSystem #JensenHuang #Nvidia #NvidiaGTCDC #passkeyExport #passkeys #phonePlans #smartphonePlans #SpaceX #TMobile #unlimitedData #verizon #VintCerf

#BendingSpoons, a Milan-based tech conglomerate, acquires #underperforming but #popular #techbrands and transforms them for efficiency. The company, valued at over $10 billion, has acquired numerous companies including #Evernote, #WeTransfer, and is set to acquire #AOL and #Vimeo, focusing on improving products, services, and monetisation strategies. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Laat #BendingSpoons maar lekker zijn gang gaan met het kapot commercialiseren van opgekochte apps.

Alleen maar meer redenen om in te zetten op de #fediverse

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/wetransfer-eigenaar-koopt-jouw-favoriete-apps-op-en-maakt-ze-duurder?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebuttonleden&utm_source=linkbutton&share=BUQwWkHL%2Fb5wFPuzHckaHeFY2paXJszYEntNblz5dHwS4WGjI%2FNWrv72fzsKLhE%3D

#wetransfer #komoot #meetup

Bending Spoons übernimmt AOL – Was steckt hinter der Übernahme?
AOL bekommt bald einen neuen Eigentümer. Die italienische Softwarefirma Bending Spoons plant, den bekannten Internetdienst zu kaufen und setzt damit ihre Expansionsstrategie im Digitalbereich fo
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/bending-spoons-uebernimmt-aol-was-steckt-hinter-der-uebernahme/
#News #Services #AOL #Apollo #BendingSpoons #EMailDienst #Evernote #LucaFerrari #MeetUp #bernahme #Webportal #WeTransfer #Yahoo

Weekly output: NextGen Acela, Evernote V11, Verizon CEOs, RGB LED, screen time, Cranky Dorkfest, Verizon buys Starry, AT&T standalone 5G, TiVo DVRs

This week will have me crossing a state off my states-visited list for the first time since 2009–Wisconsin, where Oshkosh Corp. is hosting a press day to show off its government and industrial vehicles, including the U.S. Postal Service’s new and behind-schedule duckface trucks. I don’t have a good explanation for why I had not set foot in that state sooner and can only apologize to America’s Dairyland for the extended oversight.

10/6/2025: Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail, Fast Company

After taking the new trains to and from New York at the end of August, I had ambitions of writing this story much faster than I did–sort of like how Amtrak had ambitions of getting the new train into service much sooner than it did. But getting the level of detail that I wanted about the railroad’s plans to upgrade the power infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor took more time than I expected.

(I included the full text of Amtrak’s detailed explanation of its plans to improve the catenary along the NEC in the commentary-enhanced version of this post that I published early on Patreon.)

10/6/2025: Major Evernote Update Taps AI for Search and Transcription, But Not Writing, PCMag

I had about an hour Friday to quiz Evernote product lead Federico Simionato about Bending Spoons’ plans for the note-taking app that it bought in 2023, and which I’ve used since 2010–so of course I took notes in my Mac’s copy of Evernote while using the Android app to record our conversation for subsequent AI transcription.

10/6/2025: Verizon Hot-Swaps Current CEO for Ex-PayPal Boss, PCMag

I don’t usually cover C-suite departures and arrivals, but I had some free time. And Verizon’s new chief executive Dan Schulman has a sufficiently interesting backstory–see the New York Times’ interview of him in 2008–that I told my editors I could pick up this item.

10/7/2025: RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?, PCMag

I started writing this post at IFA–the first version had a Berlin dateline. But then I got sufficiently sidetracked and got in enough reporting after that tech trade show for the piece to evolve from an event recap to a broader assessment of a tech development.

10/8/2025: It’s Not Just You: Parents Everywhere Struggle to Set Screen-Time Boundaries, PCMag

Pew’s data about the level of technology use respondents to its survey allowed among kids 12 years old or younger made me feel slightly better about my own attempts at digital parenting.

10/8/2025: What happens when online plane enthusiasts meet up IRL?, Fast Company

This recap of Cranky Dorkfest 2025 was easily the most fun that I’ve had with a story since the last time I went to Florida to see a space launch.

10/8/2025: Verizon to Buy Wireless Broadband Pioneer Starry, Fold It Into Its Home Internet Service, PCMag

Writing this sent me back a ways–both to writing about Starry in its early days, including a December 2017 feature for Yahoo Finance, but also to covering Starry founder Chet Kanojia’s previous venture, the local-TV-streaming service Aereo that the Supreme Court put out of business in a dubious 2014 opinion.

10/9/2025: AT&T Switches on Standalone 5G Nationwide, Unlocking Future Network Slice Services, PCMag

This post also covers Verizon’s advances in standalone 5G, about which that carrier has been quieter than AT&T and T-Mobile.

10/9/2025: Time’s Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs, PCMag

I would have written this much faster if I didn’t get sucked down a rabbit hole of old TiVo posts and reviews, followed by my checking my own TiVo purchase history.

#Acela #Amtrak #ATT5G #avgeek #BendingSpoons #CrankyDorkfest #DanSchulman #digitalParenting #Evernote #fixedWireless #fixedWirelessBroadband #highSpeedRail #IFA #LAX #NEC #NextGenAcela #NortheastCorridor #PewResearchCenter #RGBLED #screenTime #Sony #standalone5G #StarryInternet #Verizon5G #VerizonCEO

Weekly output: NextGen Acela, Evernote V11, Verizon CEOs, RGB LED, screen time, Cranky Dorkfest, Verizon buys Starry, AT&T standalone 5G, TiVo DVRs

This week will have me crossing a state off my states-visited list for the first time since 2009–Wisconsin, where Oshkosh Corp. is hosting a press day to show off its government and industrial vehicles, including the U.S. Postal Service’s new and behind-schedule duckface trucks. I don’t have a good explanation for why I had not set foot in that state sooner and can only apologize to America’s Dairyland for the extended oversight.

10/6/2025: Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail, Fast Company

After taking the new trains to and from New York at the end of August, I had ambitions of writing this story much faster than I did–sort of like how Amtrak had ambitions of getting the new train into service much sooner than it did. But getting the level of detail that I wanted about the railroad’s plans to upgrade the power infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor took more time than I expected.

(I included the full text of Amtrak’s detailed explanation of its plans to improve the catenary along the NEC in the commentary-enhanced version of this post that I published early on Patreon.)

10/6/2025: Major Evernote Update Taps AI for Search and Transcription, But Not Writing, PCMag

I had about an hour Friday to quiz Evernote product lead Federico Simionato about Bending Spoons’ plans for the note-taking app that it bought in 2023, and which I’ve used since 2010–so of course I took notes in my Mac’s copy of Evernote while using the Android app to record our conversation for subsequent AI transcription.

10/6/2025: Verizon Hot-Swaps Current CEO for Ex-PayPal Boss, PCMag

I don’t usually cover C-suite departures and arrivals, but I had some free time. And Verizon’s new chief executive Dan Schulman has a sufficiently interesting backstory–see the New York Times’ interview of him in 2008–that I told my editors I could pick up this item.

10/7/2025: RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?, PCMag

I started writing this post at IFA–the first version had a Berlin dateline. But then I got sufficiently sidetracked and got in enough reporting after that tech trade show for the piece to evolve from an event recap to a broader assessment of a tech development.

10/8/2025: It’s Not Just You: Parents Everywhere Struggle to Set Screen-Time Boundaries, PCMag

Pew’s data about the level of technology use respondents to its survey allowed among kids 12 years old or younger made me feel slightly better about my own attempts at digital parenting.

10/8/2025: What happens when online plane enthusiasts meet up IRL?, Fast Company

This recap of Cranky Dorkfest 2025 was easily the most fun that I’ve had with a story since the last time I went to Florida to see a space launch.

10/8/2025: Verizon to Buy Wireless Broadband Pioneer Starry, Fold It Into Its Home Internet Service, PCMag

Writing this sent me back a ways–both to writing about Starry in its early days, including a December 2017 feature for Yahoo Finance, but also to covering Starry founder Chet Kanojia’s previous venture, the local-TV-streaming service Aereo that the Supreme Court put out of business in a dubious 2014 opinion.

10/9/2025: AT&T Switches on Standalone 5G Nationwide, Unlocking Future Network Slice Services, PCMag

This post also covers Verizon’s advances in standalone 5G, about which that carrier has been quieter than AT&T and T-Mobile.

10/9/2025: Time’s Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs, PCMag

I would have written this much faster if I didn’t get sucked down a rabbit hole of old TiVo posts and reviews, followed by my checking my own TiVo purchase history.

#Acela #Amtrak #ATT5G #avgeek #BendingSpoons #CrankyDorkfest #DanSchulman #digitalParenting #Evernote #fixedWireless #fixedWirelessBroadband #highSpeedRail #IFA #LAX #NEC #NextGenAcela #NortheastCorridor #PewResearchCenter #RGBLED #screenTime #Sony #standalone5G #StarryInternet #Verizon5G #VerizonCEO

Weekly output: NextGen Acela, Evernote V11, Verizon CEOs, RGB LED, screen time, Cranky Dorkfest, Verizon buys Starry, AT&T standalone 5G, TiVo DVRs

This week will have me crossing a state off my states-visited list for the first time since 2009–Wisconsin, where Oshkosh Corp. is hosting a press day to show off its government and industrial vehicles, including the U.S. Postal Service’s new and behind-schedule duckface trucks. I don’t have a good explanation for why I had not set foot in that state sooner and can only apologize to America’s Dairyland for the extended oversight.

10/6/2025: Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail, Fast Company

After taking the new trains to and from New York at the end of August, I had ambitions of writing this story much faster than I did–sort of like how Amtrak had ambitions of getting the new train into service much sooner than it did. But getting the level of detail that I wanted about the railroad’s plans to upgrade the power infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor took more time than I expected.

(I included the full text of Amtrak’s detailed explanation of its plans to improve the catenary along the NEC in the commentary-enhanced version of this post that I published early on Patreon.)

10/6/2025: Major Evernote Update Taps AI for Search and Transcription, But Not Writing, PCMag

I had about an hour Friday to quiz Evernote product lead Federico Simionato about Bending Spoons’ plans for the note-taking app that it bought in 2023, and which I’ve used since 2010–so of course I took notes in my Mac’s copy of Evernote while using the Android app to record our conversation for subsequent AI transcription.

10/6/2025: Verizon Hot-Swaps Current CEO for Ex-PayPal Boss, PCMag

I don’t usually cover C-suite departures and arrivals, but I had some free time. And Verizon’s new chief executive Dan Schulman has a sufficiently interesting backstory–see the New York Times’ interview of him in 2008–that I told my editors I could pick up this item.

10/7/2025: RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?, PCMag

I started writing this post at IFA–the first version had a Berlin dateline. But then I got sufficiently sidetracked and got in enough reporting after that tech trade show for the piece to evolve from an event recap to a broader assessment of a tech development.

10/8/2025: It’s Not Just You: Parents Everywhere Struggle to Set Screen-Time Boundaries, PCMag

Pew’s data about the level of technology use respondents to its survey allowed among kids 12 years old or younger made me feel slightly better about my own attempts at digital parenting.

10/8/2025: What happens when online plane enthusiasts meet up IRL?, Fast Company

This recap of Cranky Dorkfest 2025 was easily the most fun that I’ve had with a story since the last time I went to Florida to see a space launch.

10/8/2025: Verizon to Buy Wireless Broadband Pioneer Starry, Fold It Into Its Home Internet Service, PCMag

Writing this sent me back a ways–both to writing about Starry in its early days, including a December 2017 feature for Yahoo Finance, but also to covering Starry founder Chet Kanojia’s previous venture, the local-TV-streaming service Aereo that the Supreme Court put out of business in a dubious 2014 opinion.

10/9/2025: AT&T Switches on Standalone 5G Nationwide, Unlocking Future Network Slice Services, PCMag

This post also covers Verizon’s advances in standalone 5G, about which that carrier has been quieter than AT&T and T-Mobile.

10/9/2025: Time’s Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs, PCMag

I would have written this much faster if I didn’t get sucked down a rabbit hole of old TiVo posts and reviews, followed by my checking my own TiVo purchase history.

#Acela #Amtrak #ATT5G #avgeek #BendingSpoons #CrankyDorkfest #DanSchulman #digitalParenting #Evernote #fixedWireless #fixedWirelessBroadband #highSpeedRail #IFA #LAX #NEC #NextGenAcela #NortheastCorridor #PewResearchCenter #RGBLED #screenTime #Sony #standalone5G #StarryInternet #Verizon5G #VerizonCEO

Weekly output: NextGen Acela, Evernote V11, Verizon CEOs, RGB LED, screen time, Cranky Dorkfest, Verizon buys Starry, AT&T standalone 5G, TiVo DVRs

This week will have me crossing a state off my states-visited list for the first time since 2009–Wisconsin, where Oshkosh Corp. is hosting a press day to show off its government and industrial vehicles, including the U.S. Postal Service’s new and behind-schedule duckface trucks. I don’t have a good explanation for why I had not set foot in that state sooner and can only apologize to America’s Dairyland for the extended oversight.

10/6/2025: Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail, Fast Company

After taking the new trains to and from New York at the end of August, I had ambitions of writing this story much faster than I did–sort of like how Amtrak had ambitions of getting the new train into service much sooner than it did. But getting the level of detail that I wanted about the railroad’s plans to upgrade the power infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor took more time than I expected.

(I included the full text of Amtrak’s detailed explanation of its plans to improve the catenary along the NEC in the commentary-enhanced version of this post that I published early on Patreon.)

10/6/2025: Major Evernote Update Taps AI for Search and Transcription, But Not Writing, PCMag

I had about an hour Friday to quiz Evernote product lead Federico Simionato about Bending Spoons’ plans for the note-taking app that it bought in 2023, and which I’ve used since 2010–so of course I took notes in my Mac’s copy of Evernote while using the Android app to record our conversation for subsequent AI transcription.

10/6/2025: Verizon Hot-Swaps Current CEO for Ex-PayPal Boss, PCMag

I don’t usually cover C-suite departures and arrivals, but I had some free time. And Verizon’s new chief executive Dan Schulman has a sufficiently interesting backstory–see the New York Times’ interview of him in 2008–that I told my editors I could pick up this item.

10/7/2025: RGB LED Is Getting Its Time in the Spotlight. Will TV Shoppers Tune In?, PCMag

I started writing this post at IFA–the first version had a Berlin dateline. But then I got sufficiently sidetracked and got in enough reporting after that tech trade show for the piece to evolve from an event recap to a broader assessment of a tech development.

10/8/2025: It’s Not Just You: Parents Everywhere Struggle to Set Screen-Time Boundaries, PCMag

Pew’s data about the level of technology use respondents to its survey allowed among kids 12 years old or younger made me feel slightly better about my own attempts at digital parenting.

10/8/2025: What happens when online plane enthusiasts meet up IRL?, Fast Company

This recap of Cranky Dorkfest 2025 was easily the most fun that I’ve had with a story since the last time I went to Florida to see a space launch.

10/8/2025: Verizon to Buy Wireless Broadband Pioneer Starry, Fold It Into Its Home Internet Service, PCMag

Writing this sent me back a ways–both to writing about Starry in its early days, including a December 2017 feature for Yahoo Finance, but also to covering Starry founder Chet Kanojia’s previous venture, the local-TV-streaming service Aereo that the Supreme Court put out of business in a dubious 2014 opinion.

10/9/2025: AT&T Switches on Standalone 5G Nationwide, Unlocking Future Network Slice Services, PCMag

This post also covers Verizon’s advances in standalone 5G, about which that carrier has been quieter than AT&T and T-Mobile.

10/9/2025: Time’s Up for a Timeshifting Trailblazer: TiVo Discontinues Its Standalone DVRs, PCMag

I would have written this much faster if I didn’t get sucked down a rabbit hole of old TiVo posts and reviews, followed by my checking my own TiVo purchase history.

#Acela #Amtrak #ATT5G #avgeek #BendingSpoons #CrankyDorkfest #DanSchulman #digitalParenting #Evernote #fixedWireless #fixedWirelessBroadband #highSpeedRail #IFA #LAX #NEC #NextGenAcela #NortheastCorridor #PewResearchCenter #RGBLED #screenTime #Sony #standalone5G #StarryInternet #Verizon5G #VerizonCEO

#Italian corp aggregator of failed #VC discards #BendingSpoons buys assets of #Vimeo the once high flying premium #streamingvideo host that rose up under tutelage of #BarryDiller's #IAC but had lost 90% of #MarketValue since spun off in 2021, when the company's market cap was approximately $17.8 billion at #IPO.

#Italian corp aggregator of failed #VC discards #BendingSpoons buys assets of #Vimeo the once high flying premium #streamingvideo host that rose up under tutelage of #BarryDiller's #IAC but had lost 90% of #MarketValue since spun off in 2021, when the company's market cap was approximately $17.8 billion at #IPO.

Tubefilter: The parent company of Evernote and WeTransfer is acquiring pioneering video hub Vimeo for $1.38 billion . UGH. “Vimeo has found a buyer. The 21-year-old video hub has been acquired by Bending Spoons, a tech company that will pay $1.38 billion to pick up a platform that has long promoted artists and their work.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/11/tubefilter-the-parent-company-of-evernote-and-wetransfer-is-acquiring-pioneering-video-hub-vimeo-for-1-38-billion/