Ready to ring in the New Year? Check out these festivities in Milwaukee and its suburbs

Whether it is a party, live music, fun run or fancy dinner, there are many ways to ring in 2026 in Milwaukee and its suburbs.
TechCrunch

Bending Spoons agrees to buy Eventbrite for $500M to revive stalled brand

Bending Spoons, a company that buys and revitalizes stagnating tech companies, has agreed to purchase Eventbrite for about $500 million, a far cry from the $1.76 billion the company was worth when it ...

“Bob Dylan said, ‘Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do withit’”: Roger McGuinn on the making of The Byrds’ countercultural classic

Roger McGuinn explains how Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan and CBS-era Fender amps all factored into the making of The Byrds’ 1969 classic, Ballad of Easy Rider ...
The Bulletin

Visit Bend finds ways to spend tourist taxes on projects that benefit locals, too

When Bend’s vintage Pine Shed building was moved a mile-and-a-half to the corner of Second Street and Hawthorne Avenue in 2023, it had the help of more than the flatbed truck it was riding on. The old ...
Houston Chronicle

Thousands of Fort Bend ISD students will be rezoned next year. The district is still deciding how.

Fort Bend ISD parents urged trustees Monday to be more transparent as the district drafts a rezoning plan that will move thousands of students next year. The district decided last year to nix plans ...
OPB

Bend City Council clears path for housing project to help school employees

The Bend City Council voted Wednesday to rezone a nearly two-acre parcel of land next to a high school. It’s one of two parcels that Bend-La Pine Schools, or BLS, is selling in order to create housing ...
KTVZ

Bend Park and Rec District launching public survey to gather input and insight on how they’re doing

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- How satisfied are you with the services of Bend Park and Recreation District? Is the district utilizing your tax dollars wisely and efficiently? What should the agency’s role be ...
Forbes

Bending Spoons Cofounders Become Billionaires After Italian Startup Raises At $11 Billion Valuation

Bending Spoon's Luca Ferrari and his three cofounders started to acquire apps back in 2014. Fresh from signing a deal to buy AOL, a new funding round values their startup at over $11 billion. Luca ...
Variety

AOL to Be Acquired by Italy’s Bending Spoons

AOL currently has about 8 million daily active users and 30 million monthly active users for its news, content and games web portal and email services, according to Bending Spoons. An early leader in ...
Seeking Alpha

Bending Spoons agrees to buy AOL

Italian tech company Bending Spoons agreed to acquire AOL, the web portal and email provider, from Yahoo, which is owned by private equity firm Apollo Global (APO). “AOL is an iconic, beloved business ...
Forbes

AOL Has A New Italian Owner: Unicorn Startup Bending Spoons

Milan's Bending Spoons will buy AOL's email platform, its homepage, once one of the valuable pieces of internet from Apollo while raising $2.8 billion in debt. AOL was the first destination on the ...
TechCrunch

Bending Spoons to acquire AOL

Bending Spoons, one of Europe’s largest mobile app developers, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity giant Apollo. Bending Spoons says it ...