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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.




Immuni


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. The app was released on 1 June 2020. It was initially released in four regions, then countrywide.
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. The most commonly cited reason for not using the app was the lack of perceived effectiveness.
Immuni was decommissioned on December 31, 2022.




Acquisitions


In September 2022, Bending Spoons acquired FiLMiC and converted its video-recording app FiLMiC Pro to a subscription revenue model. In December 2023, the original FiLMiC team were laid off, and development of FiLMiC Pro was continued in-house by Bending Spoons.
In November 2022, Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote. The acquisition was concluded in January 2023. 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.
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. Also that month, Bending Spoons acquired Meetup, a social media platform for organizing in-person and virtual activities. In April, the company announced that it would acquire Hopin, owner of the popular live streaming studio StreamYard. Later in July, the company announced it had acquired digital publishing platform Issuu. 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.




See also


COVID-19 apps




References






External links


Official website

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