{"id":41779,"date":"2024-01-15T15:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41779"},"modified":"2024-01-15T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T20:59:52","slug":"meetup-and-iac-apps-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/meetup-and-iac-apps-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetup and IAC Apps Acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/a-new-home-for-meetup\/\">Luca Ferrari<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38953242\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/a-new-home-for-meetup\/\">\n<p>Bending Spoons entered into an agreement to become the new owner of Meetup, subject to closing conditions. The acquisition is expected to close later in January.products.<\/p>\n<p>Meetup has a powerful global brand, a large, vibrant user base, and a mission that resonates strongly. Quite simply, Meetup is a force for good in the world, and it&rsquo;s a pleasure and a privilege to become the new steward. We&rsquo;re eager to support Meetup&rsquo;s future success by drawing from the expertise we&rsquo;ve developed in a decade of building high-performing digital technology <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1745567200600076531\">Ryan Jones<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=38966306\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1745567200600076531\"><p>IAC just sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons.<\/p><ul><li>$100M deal<\/li><li>All 330 employees fired<\/li><li>Robokiller and PDF Hero appear to be the biggest<\/li><\/ul><p>Sneak peak at the playbook: ultra scammy tactics, no new features, sell user data, more ads, and other lovely things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/filmics-entire-staff-laid-off\/\">Filmic&rsquo;s Entire Staff Laid Off<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/10\/evernote-acquisition-and-layoffs\/\">Evernote Acquisition and Layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Ferrari (Hacker News): Bending Spoons entered into an agreement to become the new owner of Meetup, subject to closing conditions. The acquisition is expected to close later in January.products. Meetup has a powerful global brand, a large, vibrant user base, and a mission that resonates strongly. Quite simply, Meetup is a force for good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-01-15T20:59:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"48342de3-71e1-4514-975d-9194c44c61a0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-01-15T20:59:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASDQt43HhRRSXXZGUxExhoA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,2532,101,31,2321,26,1968,2533,96],"class_list":["post-41779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-bending-spoons","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iosapp","tag-layoffs","tag-meetup","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41780,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41779\/revisions\/41780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}