Bending Spoons
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark[1] |
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| Headquarters | Milan, Italy |
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| Subsidiaries | Evernote Corporation |
| Website | bendingspoons |
Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian technology company, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for mobile applications that it develops or acquires.[2]
Immuni
[edit]On 17 April 2020, the Italian government released a statement on its website announcing that Bending Spoons had been selected to design and develop Italy's official COVID-19 contact tracing app, Immuni.[3][4] The app was released on 1 June 2020.[5] It was initially released in four regions, then countrywide.[6]
The app did not receive significant adoption and successfully tracked less than 1% of the total confirmed positive cases reported during the period it was active.[7] The most commonly cited reasons for not using the app were the lack of perceived effectiveness and major technical issues.[8]
Immuni was decommissioned on December 31, 2022.[9]
Acquisitions
[edit]In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC[10] and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model.[11] In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.[12]
In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote.[13] The acquisition was concluded in January 2023.[14] In July 2023, Evernote laid off all of its existing staff and announced it would relocate to Europe to be closer to Bending Spoons' headquarters.[15]
Bending Spoons made a series of acquisitions in 2024. In January, it acquired the assets of New York City-based mobile app developer Mosaic Group from IAC Inc.; subsequently, Mosaic's entire workforce of 330 staff members was laid off, as they were not part of the acquisition.[16][17] Also that month, Bending Spoons acquired Meetup, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities.[18][19] In April, the company announced that it would acquire Hopin, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard.[20] Later in July, the company announced it had acquired digital publishing platform Issuu.[21] Also in July, the company agreed to acquire the Dutch file transfer service WeTransfer, then announced in September they were laying off 75% of the company's workforce.[22][23] In November, the company agreed to acquire video platform company Brightcove for $233 million.[24]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Zargani, Luisa (9 December 2021). "Renzo Rosso's Red Circle Investments Takes Stake in Bending Spoons". Women's Wear Daily.
- ^ "Bending Spoons Apps IVS Revenue & App Download Estimates". sensortower.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Pollina, Elvira (1 April 2020). "Italy tests contact-tracing app to speed lockdown exit". Reuters. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Ministry of Health. "Contact tracing: Arcuri firma ordinanza per app italiana". www.salute.gov.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Italian Minister for Technological Innovation (3 June 2020). "IMMUNI APP available for downloading on the APPLE and GOOGLE stores". innovazione.gov.it. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ Horowitz, Jason; Satariano, Adam (1 June 2020). "Europe Rolls Out Contact Tracing Apps, With Hope and Trepidation". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ Ussai, Silvia; Pistis, Marco; Missoni, Eduardo; Formenti, Beatrice; Armocida, Benedetta; Pedrazzi, Tatiana; Castelli, Francesco; Monasta, Lorenzo; Lauria, Baldassare; Mariani, Ilaria (20 June 2022). ""Immuni" and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (12): 7529. doi:10.3390/ijerph19127529. ISSN 1661-7827. PMC 9223529. PMID 35742778.
- ^ Isonne, Claudia; De Blasiis, Maria Roberta; Turatto, Federica; Mazzalai, Elena; Marzuillo, Carolina; De Vito, Corrado; Villari, Paolo; Baccolini, Valentina (10 June 2022). "What Went Wrong with the IMMUNI Contact-Tracing App in Italy? A Cross-Sectional Survey on the Attitudes and Experiences among Healthcare University Students". Life. 12 (6): 871. Bibcode:2022Life...12..871I. doi:10.3390/life12060871. ISSN 2075-1729. PMC 9225335. PMID 35743902.
- ^ Salute, Ministero della. "Dismissione Piattaforma contact tracing digitale e APP IMMUNI". www.salute.gov.it (in Italian). Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "FiLMiC & Bending Spoons Join Forces. Changes to Subscription Model". Newsshooter. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Voss, Olaf von (8 September 2022). "FiLMiC Pro Acquired by Bending Spoons – New Subscription Model". CineD. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Davis, Wes (3 December 2023). "Bending Spoons confirmed it laid off all 22 of Filmic's original staff". The Verge. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Roth, Emma (16 November 2022). "Evernote's getting acquired by mobile developer Bending Spoons". The Verge.
- ^ "Evernote has been acquired — here's how its new owner can fix it". TheNextWeb. 6 January 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ Purdy, Kevin (10 July 2023). "Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff". Ars Technica. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Leach, Kamaron (10 January 2024). "IAC Divests Mosaic Apps to Bending Spoons in Deal Valued Above $100 Million". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ "Italy's Bending Spoons acquires Mosaic Group's digital assets from IAC". Reuters. 10 January 2024.
- ^ Roth, Emma (11 January 2024). "Meetup got acquired by Bending Spoons". The Verge. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ Ferrari, Luca (8 January 2024). "A New Home for Meetup". Meetup Blog. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- ^ O'Brien, Amy (11 April 2024). "Hundreds of millions in revenue and three acquisitions in 2024 — what's behind Bending Spoons' success?". Sifted. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Digital publishing platform Issuu acquired by Bending Spoons". Editor & Publisher. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ Pollina, Elvira (31 July 2024). Weir, Keith (ed.). "Italy's Bending Spoons buys file sharing service WeTransfer". Reuters. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquisition". TechCrunch. 8 September 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
- ^ Chesto, Jon (25 November 2024). "Video company Brightcove sold for $233 million to Italian app developer". Boston Globe. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
