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cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

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Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

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cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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Bending Spoons to acquire AOL | TechCrunch
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Wednesday's news marks a new chapter for AOL, which was once one of the most recognized brands on the internet, known for its email service and "You've Got Mail" notification.
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    This headline reads like a very surreal self help book title.

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      There is no spoon.

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    Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

    Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

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      Buy a company which already has a vast historical user base and a well known brand for fuckall because it’s dieing, then make it good again and sell it off for more than fuckall.

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      The idea here is to rebrand and modernize AOL as a gmail and cyber security alternative with decoupled infrastructure from US dependencies: A highly political topic in the EU currently.

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    I thought this was going to be a weird ass figure of speech.

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      There is no spoon.

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    Late 90s movie reference buys early 90s rotting corpse.

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    i thought they used money to do that

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