Uber pauses European food-delivery push for Delivery Hero

Zoom acquires Common Room to boost AI sales tools

Zoom is acquiring Seattle-based AI startup Common Room, which builds go-to-market intelligence software that aggregates CRM data, product usage signals, and real-world buyer behavior into a unified person-level view. AI agents then handle prospecting and outreach. The deal adds buyer intelligence to Zoom's existing Revenue Accelerator platform, which already coaches reps on sales calls. Common Room was founded in 2020 by veterans from Dropbox, Facebook, AWS, and Madrona, raised $52M, and counts Notion, Okta, Snowflake, and Anthropic among its customers. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The move reflects Zoom's broader strategy to reinvent itself as an AI-powered enterprise 'system of action' beyond its stagnating video conferencing roots.

Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading

Bending Spoons, the Milan-based company known for acquiring and revitalizing stagnant tech brands like AOL, Evernote, Eventbrite, Meetup, and Vimeo, surged nearly 40% on its IPO debut, closing at $40.50 against a $29 offering price. The company reached a $25.7 billion market cap — more than double its last private valuation of $11 billion — and raised $1.68 billion. Its Q1 financials show $601 million in revenue and $27.4 million net income, a sharp turnaround from a $112 million net loss in the same period last year. The company generates 84% of revenue from subscriptions and, unlike private equity, has no plans to sell its acquired businesses.

Getty scraps $3.7bn Shutterstock merger over UK conditions

Getty Images has voted unanimously to terminate its $3.7bn merger with Shutterstock after the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) demanded Shutterstock sell its global editorial business — including celebrity photo agencies Backgrid and Splash — as a condition of approval. The US Department of Justice had already cleared the deal unconditionally. Shutterstock shares dropped roughly 30% in after-hours trading following the announcement. The collapse leaves both stock-photo giants to independently navigate the existential threat posed by AI image generators, despite each having separately signed licensing deals with OpenAI. The outcome highlights the CMA's growing power to block or reshape global tech and media deals, with implications for other pending mergers like Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros Discovery.

Bending Spoons prices IPO above range to raise $1.68bn ahead of Nasdaq debut

Bending Spoons, công ty sở hữu Vimeo, Evernote, WeTransfer và Eventbrite, đã định giá IPO trên Nasdaq ở mức 29 USD/cổ phiếu, huy động được 1,68 tỷ USD, cao hơn phạm vi dự kiến. Doanh thu tăng vọt từ 387 triệu USD (2023) lên 1,31 tỷ USD (2025) nhờ chiến lược mua lại, tái cấu trúc và mở rộng sản phẩm theo phong cách private equity. Việc định giá cao cho thấy nhu cầu mạnh mẽ từ các nhà đầu tư tổ chức, đồng thời đây là một trong những đợt IPO công nghệ châu Âu lớn nhất năm tại sàn Mỹ.

Là một lập trình viên muốn phát triển ứng dụng hoặc dịch vụ công nghệ, bài viết này giúp bạn hiểu cách một công ty như Bending Spoons thành công bằng cách tái cấu trúc và mở rộng các sản phẩm công nghệ yếu kém, từ đó tìm ra những chiến lược hiệu quả trong việc tối ưu hóa và mở rộng dự án của bạn.

Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty

Lime, the scooter and bike-share company backed by Uber, has gone public on the Nasdaq under the ticker 'LIME', raising $167 million at $25 per share and achieving a valuation of approximately $1.66 billion. The IPO comes after years of delays and financial uncertainty, including a going-concern warning in its May filing due to roughly $1 billion in liabilities. CEO Wayne Ting emphasized that Lime waited until it could demonstrate three consecutive years of free cash flow positivity. Revenue has grown from $521 million in 2023 to $886.7 million in 2025, and the company now operates in 230 cities across 29 countries. Lime is the last major micromobility player standing after rivals like Bird went bankrupt and others merged or shut down.

Superhuman buys GPTZero: the AI-detection irony

Superhuman, formerly Grammarly, has acquired AI-detection startup GPTZero for an undisclosed sum (valued above $88m). The deal is intentionally ironic: Grammarly helps users write with AI while GPTZero detects AI-written content. Superhuman frames the combination as an 'authenticity layer' — betting that proving human authorship becomes a valuable product category as AI-generated text floods the web. GPTZero brings 19 million users, $30m ARR, and tools including hallucination detection, plagiarism checking, and keystroke-level document replay. Critics note two tensions: AI detectors have known accuracy limits, and Grammarly itself generates and 'humanizes' AI text, putting it on both sides of the authenticity trade.

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public

Bending Spoons, một tập đoàn công nghệ Milan, vừa niêm yết trên Nasdaq với vốn hóa thị trường đạt 25 tỷ USD, gấp đôi mức định giá tư nhân trước đó. Công ty này sở hữu nhiều thương hiệu nổi tiếng như AOL, Vimeo, Evernote thông qua việc mua lại các sản phẩm kém hiệu quả và cải tổ bằng AI, thay đổi giá cả cùng cắt giảm nhân sự mạnh tay.

Là người muốn xây dựng mô hình kinh doanh công nghệ bền vững và hiệu quả, bạn nên đọc bài này để hiểu cách một công ty tư nhân hóa mạnh mẽ bằng cách tập trung vào giá trị lâu dài thông qua AI, tái cấu trúc và quản lý nhân lực hiệu quả, thay vì chỉ nhắm mục tiêu lợi nhuận ngắn hạn.