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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by PlunderBunny »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #187
Fezzik wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think owning stock is a financial endorsement of what the company is actually doing- you own a fraction of the company and saying ‘I just want a return on my money, no matter what the company does’ does not absolve you from actually financially supporting bad actors. If I hoist you in to a building to steal something I am endorsing your behavior. Same thing.

50% of my retirement funding is in Australian mining. Is it sustainable? Is it good for the environment? Is it an industry known for ethics? No, no, and no. Will they stop mining if no-one holds their public shares? Lol, no, lots of privately held mining companies exist who tend to perform even less ethically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Prospecting#Attitudes_... So, if they're going to dig the stuff up to…

"If we don't steal these hubcaps, someone else is bound to..."

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by smsm42 »

cs702 wrote: post #197
smsm42 wrote: post #192

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I've been Evernote user for years, didn't see any ads. Am I not looking in the right place?

The question I would be asking is: How is the new owner of Evernote using my data?

A sensible concern, but not the one quoted in parent comment, which talked about adware.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by outcoldman »

melnichek wrote: post #203
outcoldman wrote: post #89

Actually have been using NOAA Weather Radar a lot. Time to uninstall.

I suggest you try rainbow.ai As a weather radar, it's far more accurate in the US

Does not look like it much different from default weather app on ios.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by cs702 »

smsm42 wrote: post #202
cs702 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question I would be asking is: How is the new owner of Evernote using my data?

A sensible concern, but not the one quoted in parent comment, which talked about adware.

Depends on how you define "adware." According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware, Microsoft at one point defined it as "any software that installs itself on your system without your knowledge and displays advertisements when the user browses the Internet."

I'm not sure what other term I could/should have used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by w0m »

qwerpy wrote: post #153
w0m wrote: post #132

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similarly; I got fed up with an earlier change and migrated to One Note. Generally happy with it; and apps on every platform (including linux)

There’s a Linux app for OneNote? I’ve been looking for one that isn’t just “use the online version in the browser”. Which isn’t half bad except for the fact that it loads pages on demand and so is slow on first load.

https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu

though

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/o...

Looks like a webapp wrapper. It is snappy in my use though on a 2010 i7 MBA running Ubuntu 2022.

Re: IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired

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Post by ronaldwood »

mathverse wrote: post #21
vineyardmike wrote: post #9

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They’re not private equity… they’re like a bottom tier tech conglomerate that’s been growing rapidly lately. They most famously bought Evernote. They buy apps/products that mature and don’t need a lot of work, fire all the workers and hire a skeleton crew to manage them in a cheaper labor market. They also harvest data from the apps and resell it.

Dont their hire mostly in Italy?

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