Could it be that Wall Street has a soft spot for refurbished internet brands? Bending Spoons, the Italian company whose stated mission is buying and overhauling left-for-dead digital businesses—such as AOL, Evernote and Vimeo—got a 40% pop on its first day as a public company on Wednesday. It ...

While the venture capital industry spent the last decade chasing consumer apps and foundation models, a quieter kind of software company was getting

Buying busted apps made Bending Spoons’s four cofounders billionaires. Now their stakes have collectively jumped to $8.9 billion after the Milan-based startup scrap yard listed on…

Bending Spoons is set to debut on the US Nasdaq market today (1 July), after raising $1.68bn in its public listing.