U.S. News & World Report Joins The Print Deadpool
Another major magazine will stop printing its editions and move completely online. U.S. News & World Report, the USA Today of weekly news magazines, will no longer be found on subscriber's...
View ArticleAnchor Intelligence Heading To The DeadPool After Facebook Acquisition Fell...
Anchor Intelligence, a service that detects click fraud, is heading to the deadpool, we've confirmed with multiple sources. We first wrote about the company in December 2007. The company has raised $6...
View ArticleMixin Hits The Deadpool – Unless Anyone Wants To Buy The Social Calendar App?
Social calendaring service Mixin will soon be no more. In an email to its users, the Swiss startup has announced that the service, which was launched back in 2008, will be unceremoniously shut down on...
View ArticleA Mobile Photo Sharing Casualty, Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To...
In terms of hot spaces at the moment, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything hotter than the mobile photo sharing space. Instagram, PicPlz, and Path all have gotten huge amounts of funding recently....
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Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers
When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup's then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16...
View ArticleBought By AOL Alongside Patch, Going Will Soon Be Gone
Back in June of 2009, then-new CEO Tim Armstrong made two acquisitions to move AOL into the local space: Patch and Going. While the verdict is still very much out on Patch, it's clear that AOL is at...
View ArticleGoogle Video Prepares To Enter The Deadpool For Good
Looks like Google Tags wasn't the only product on the chopping block today — now Google Video, the mostly-forgotten service that was once YouTube's rival, is getting the axe too. Google just sent out...
View ArticleJamLegend And Skribit Tumble Down Into The Deadpool
Companies, like visitors of Chinese take-away restaurants, come and go. Today, we have the unfortunate duty to report that two fine young Internet startups have not survived the never-ending battle...
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With NFL/NBA Lockouts Continuing, Fanvibe Goes On Permanent Strike
It wasn't even a month ago when we broke the news that beRecruited would be acquiring former Y Combinator startup Fanvibe. At the time, Fanvibe’s Vishwas Prabhakara, set to become the new CEO of...
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MyNines Runs Out Of Cash; CEO Becomes VP At Rue La La
MyNines, a startup that made its debut back in 2009, has gone belly up. The company, which we likened to a 'Kayak for private sales', wasn't able to secure the financing needed to sustain the business....
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Social Contacts App Twezr Shuts Down, Company Pivots To Photo-Sharing
So long, Twezr, it's been fun. The mobile social contacts application Twezr is being shut down after having a fairly well-received launch back in November 2010. The app, for those unaware, was based on...
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Notifo Slips Into The Deadpool
Notifo, a YC-backed company we once described as a "simple mobile notifications platform for anything", is shuttering the windows and heading for the deadpool. The idea was simple enough: Notifo would...
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Yap Voicemail Dials In To The Deadpool
A reader tells us Yap Voicemail, a mobile voicemail transcription app for iPhone and Android phones, will soon be no more. Indeed, a message on the Yap Voicemail product page informs users that the...
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Brandstack Heads For The Deadpool, Blames Credit Card Fraud
Brandstack. Pitched as some sort of haven for designers, it was a marketplace in which creative types could sell off their logo concepts as they came to mind, rather than on "spec work" conjured up by...
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Deadpool Watch: After Raising $10M, Social TV Startup BeeTV Falters
Back in early 2009, I wrote about an Italian startup called BeeTV, which showcased some impressive TV recommendation technology. The goal was to sell that technology to telcos and cable operators, but...
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Luxury Car-Sharing Service HiGear Shuts Down Due To Theft
San Francisco-based HiGear, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service focused on luxury vehicles, is shutting down due to theft incidents involving its members' cars. According to CEO Ali Moiz, the company...
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The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
Nearly three years ago, I left my position at TechCrunch to start my own Internet business, with the idea of creating a web application that’d help people get together in real-life rather than simply...
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Deadpool Alert: Google Wave Goes Read-Only
Everyone out of the pool! Google is shutting it down. As announced late last year, Google Wave is now in the final stages of its life and became read-only yesterday. Come April 30 the Wave pool will be...
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Startups.com Is Shutting Down, Domain Name Not For Sale (For Now)
Daily deal community for website owners Startups.com is shutting down. In an email sent out to its mailing list subscribers, founder Gonzo Arzuaga admits that the company just "couldn't make a go of...
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Banters Hits The Deadpool, Co-Founders Leto & Moberg Are Betaworks Bound
Today, the Banters social experiment has officially come to a close, as the startup's co-founder Lauren Leto said via blog post today that the team will be no longer actively working on the site...
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