#bendingspoons — Public Fediverse posts

"Bending Spoons" ist weiter auf großer Shopping-Tour. Nach Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Komoot, Vimeo und WeTransfer nun also auch Miro:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260910065427/en/Bending-Spoons-enters-into-a-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-Miro-for-%241.355-billion

#BendingSpoons #Miro

Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-miro

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643848

#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #Miro #Acquisition #TechNews #StartupInvestment #BusinessGrowth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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