{"id":49930,"date":"2025-11-05T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49930"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:12:49","slug":"bending-spoons-acquires-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/bending-spoons-acquires-aol\/","title":{"rendered":"Bending Spoons Acquires AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/10\/29\/aol-bending-spoons-deal\">Sara Fischer<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45749161\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/10\/29\/aol-bending-spoons-deal\"><p>Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>AOL still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/29\/yahoo-apollo-renaissance-jim-lanzone?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">drives<\/a> hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow. [&#8230;] Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said AOL has around 30 million monthly active users across its email and web content properties.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Bending Spoons has also raised $2.8 billion in debt financing that will be used to fund the AOL deal as well as future research and development investments and merger and acquisition opportunities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/22\/vimeo-acquired\/\">Vimeo Acquired<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/05\/verizon-sells-yahoo-and-aol\/\">Verizon Sells Yahoo and AOL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Fischer (via Hacker News): Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.[&#8230;]AOL still drives hundreds of millions of dollars of free cash flow. [&#8230;] Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said AOL has around 30 [&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":"2025-11-05T20:12:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"938d09da-0f55-4637-bbab-be0073ee7495","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-11-05T20:12:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ak40J2g9VRje7q74Ac-50lQ","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":[66,1192,101],"class_list":["post-49930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-aol","tag-business"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49930","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=49930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49931,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49930\/revisions\/49931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}