#bendingspoons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bendingspoons, aggregated by home.social.
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@dennishorn das ist doch eine der Marken von #BendingSpoons .
Genau wie #komoot .
Irgendwie muss die Kriegskasse ja wieder aufgefüllt werden, um die nächste funktionierende Plattform zu kaufen und in die Tiefen von Mordor zu werfen.
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💸💸 Harvest price hike hits business with 1500% increase in bills
｢ Harvest was acquired by the Italian tech company Bending Spoons in 2025, and changed its pricing structure the following year.
Many businesses who pay annually are only now finding out about the increase, as their payment is now coming up for renewal ｣ -
So, 🤡 Bending Spoons swoops in, waves a magic wand, and *abracadabra* 💸—your Harvest bills now come with a side of bankruptcy! Because clearly, nothing says "innovation" like a 1500% price increase to remind you that the only thing bending here is your wallet. 🤦♂️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq011414eo #BendingSpoons #Innovation #PriceIncrease #Bankruptcy #WalletWoes #HarvestBills #HackerNews #ngated -
Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq011414eo
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374920
#HackerNews #Harvest #BendingSpoons #pricehike #technews #businessnews #appupdates
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1 day and 16 hours ago, harvest (now owned by the private equity company #bendingspoons) sent a notice that the cost to use their service would rise from $184/year to $1,158/year (USD)
a month ago, they disabled CSV export of invoice data, which i used to do my taxes
they've replaced their customer support with LLM gaslighting
i've replaced their service with a python script and a spreadsheet :blobcat_thisisfine:
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Now that #Meetup is going all in on dark patterns, with #BendingSpoons having rewritten its mobile app to cram people into extra groups and pitch them unnecessary paid subscriptions, I’m looking to move a 500+ person group off. What do others use for free social group event organizing?
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Bending Spoons acquisisce #airtable con un deal in contanti da 1,285 miliardi di dollari. L'operazione, che si concluderà entro fine 2026, rappresenta il primo passo post-IPO della società. #bendingspoons #tech
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Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable.
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🚀 Bending Spoons is now flexing its financial muscles by buying $1.3B worth of... spreadsheets? 😂 Because when you're a tech company, nothing screams innovation like acquiring digital LEGOs for grown-ups. 🧩💼
https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-airtable-deal #BendingSpoons #FinancialInnovation #TechAcquisition #DigitalLegos #SpreadsheetHumor #BusinessMoves #HackerNews #ngated -
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182
#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #Airtable #Acquisition #IPO #TechNews #BusinessDeals
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Deleted my #komoot account today. I have not used it for some time and with #bendingspoons as the new owner... #byebye
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shorturl.at/ThEyn
A $23 billion company with 1,000 employees that has never built a product you use. Bending Spoons just IPO'd. The machine behind it explains the extraction economy.
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🚀 Oh, the tech world finally meets its savior – a company named after... kitchen utensils? 🍴 Bending Spoons, the grandiose puppet master behind the powerhouse duo of AOL and Vimeo, has graced the public market, leaving us all wondering if their #IPO will be as unforgettable as their name. 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/ #technews #BendingSpoons #innovation #startup #kitchenutensils #HackerNews #ngated -
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799966
#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #AOL #Vimeo #public #technews #businessinsights
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Bending Spoons goes public, spotlighting its aggressive digital brand acquisition strategy
📰 Original title: What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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AOL Returns To Wall Street Spotlight With IPO Of New Corporate Parent Bending Spoons
#News #AOL #BendingSpoons #Digital #IPOhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/aol-returns-to-wall-street-spotlight-ipo-bending-spoons-1236972765/
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@jerzone I used to like Komoot very much, but they sold out to #bendingspoons who fired almost all employees so not using it anymore, better explaind here:
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#BendingSpoons, an Italian #software company, is pricing its US #IPO at $26 to $28 per share, aiming to raise up to $1.62 billion and achieve a $19 billion valuation. The company, known for its aggressive #acquisitionstrategy, has seen rapid revenue growth and recently turned #profitable. This IPO is one of the largest by a European company this year and highlights the trend of European tech companies choosing US exchanges for their IPOs. https://thenextweb.com/news/bending-spoons-ipo-pricing-19-billion-valuation-nasdaq?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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War meetup.com schon immer so überladen mit Popups, flash deal etc oder ist das erst seit #bendingspoons übernommen hat?
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Klingt nach Enshittification als Geschäftsmodell
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Vimeo, WeTransfer, and Filmic Owner Bending Spoons is Going Public https://petapixel.com/2026/06/09/vimeo-wetransfer-and-filmic-owner-bending-spoons-is-going-public/ #bendingspoons #wetransfer #filmicpro #Industry #public #stock #vimeo #News #ipo
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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
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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
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Evernote has gotten seriously better
Almost doubling the subscription price of a program is usually not a recipe for customer satisfaction, but I can now make an exception for Evernote. Yes, the note-taking app that many people seemed ready to leave for dead three and a half years ago, when a European software company I had never heard of bought the app that I’d already been relying on for more than a dozen years.
The Nov. 16, 2022 TechCrunch headline on Kyle Wiggers’ post about Bending Spoons buying Evernote practically sighed, calling it “the end of an era.” By then, Evernote had fallen greatly from its heights a decade earlier, when it was a frequent home-screen occupant of iPhones in Silicon Valley and visionary CEO Phil Libin talked about making the company a “100-year startup.”
After Evernote’s introduction in 2014 of a business-card-scanning feature that I still rely on, I had not seen many new features useful to my own work. And I was still experiencing too many note-synchronization glitches between my devices, despite the vow of new management to focus on the app’s core note-taking functions.
All this had me wondering if the premium account that had been a fixture in my Web-services budget since 2015, and which had increased from $45 a year to $69.99, was an expense I would be better off zeroing out. The obvious alternative was Microsoft’s OneNote, which I was already paying for with my Office 365 subscription.
But some genius at Microsoft elected to retire the company’s Evernote-to-OneNote importer in September of 2022, making any such migration a lot more difficult. And then the new management at Bending Spoons got to work improving the product–and one of the first things the people at that Milan-based firm addressed was note sync.
They made enough progress that when the company announced a steep rate hike at the end of 2023–from $69.99 to $129.99–I grudgingly decided to re-up for one more year and see where things stood. Eight months later, I was pleasantly surprised to see words I typed in my laptop’s copy of Evernote appearing my phone’s copy of the app a second later.
Today, that lag is barely discernible.
And last year, Evernote added a feature that directly helps one of my core tasks as a journalist, writing down what people say. This AI Transcribe tool that once served up long, unbroken blocks of text has gotten increasingly accurate and useful.
When I tested this Saturday afternoon by having the Evernote app on my iPad record and then transcribe a video of a 15-minute talk from the HumanX AI conference, the transcript that it generated in 40 seconds was just about as accurate as the Read AI transcript on the conference’s site (aside from botching a company name) and added bullet points and numbers to match the speaker’s pacing.
Evernote’s new management has also done a good job of communicating with its customers, posting detailed release notes for the app’s Windows, Mac, Android and iOS/iPadOS versions (why is that so hard for other companies?) to go with its frequent updates. The app still needs a word-count function, but overall it seems immensely improved from two years ago.
Meanwhile, Evernote’s cross-platform competition hasn’t done as much to earn my business.
OneNote still doesn’t have a built-in business-card-scanning feature–that requires a separate app–and sees fewer updates than Evernote, with less detail published about the content of these updates. I don’t see the same hustle at Microsoft.
And I just don’t want to trust this function to Google Keep, the free app Google had the temerity to announce in 2013 literally a week after the company killed off its beloved RSS client Google Reader. Twelve years later, a lot more of my digital life now happens on Google services, which makes me even less interested in handing over this extra bit of it to that company.
Yes, $129.99 is a serious amount of money for a Web app and service–but not in the context of one that I use and find useful multiple times a day.
#100YearStartup #AITranscribe #BendingSpoons #businessCards #Evernote #GoogleKeep #noteTaking #notes #OneNote #PhilLibin #transcribe #transcription
