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  • TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
  • TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
  • Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams. Got a tip? https://t.co/J0WxnZxSRY
  • Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams | TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a news website dedicated to the tech scene. We provide breaking technology news, opinions, and analysis on tech companies from around the world. From publicly traded tech companies to emerging startups and venture capital funding ...
  • Gadgets | Latest gadget news, updates & reviews on TechCrunch
  • Read the latest news, updates and reviews on the latest gadgets in tech. Coverage includes smartphones, wearables, laptops, drones and consumer electronics.
  • BitPass. DeadPool. | TechCrunch
  • Four year old online payment startup Bitpass is calling is quits, via a mass email to customers. The message, which comes from Mathew Graves and is
  • Tutorspree, The TutorMatching Startup Backed By Sequoia And YC, Shuts Down | TechCrunch
  • Tutorspree, the New York-based tutor-matching startup that had been dubbed the "Airbnb for tutoring" when it launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2011 class, is shutting down. The company's three co-founders Aaron Harris, Josh Abrams and Ryan Bednar announced the closure this morning in a post to Tutorspree's official blog, writing:
  • TBD's Deadpool Date Finally Determined | TechCrunch
  • Back in 2007 I did a column on TBD, a social network aimed at baby boomers. I'd spent some time looking at the space, and thought TBD was the best designed site, avoiding Eons age restrictions and fascination with death and building something a bit broader than Gather. The site borrowed heavily from what worked on sites like Yelp and Facebook, the design was delightful and it gave you fun, addictive get-to-know-me activities. I was also incredibly impressed by its founder Robin Wolaner. But there was still a central question: Would a social network aimed at baby boomers appeal to the demographic? As it turned out, no. The site is shutting down. Below is the letter to users from Wolaner. (Pictured)
  • Bloody Thursday: Google Deadpools All Slide Products Except One | TechCrunch
  • Because we needed more big tech news this week. Yes, it's true that Google has just brought the hammer down on Slide, as Liz Gannes of AllThingsD first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it's also true that Max Levchin is leaving. Now we also know the fate of all of the Slide products. And it's not pretty. All of them are being discontinued — except one, we've learned. This means both the Slide products before Google's acquisition of the company a year ago, and the newer ones that the Slide team has been building within Google for the past year. Yes, it includes the newer products like Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, and the just-launched-last-week Photovine. They're all dead.
  • SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up | TechCrunch
  • Music startups sure don't seem to have it easy these days. Lawsuit after lawsuit is raining down on some of them, and legal threats, fierce competition but evidently also the economic downturn and the decline in digital advertising spending is forcing some companies to shut down altogether. The latest company to suffer that fate is venture capital-backed SpiralFrog, which quietly hit the deadpool yesterday after 5 years of existence. A source told CNET the service went under at about 4 p.m. PDT, and has been down ever since.
  • With $2.2M In New Funding, SeatGeek Acquires And Shuts Down Ticketing Competitor FanSnap | TechCrunch
  • Ticketing startup SeatGeek is announcing that it has acquired FanSnap from Wize Commerce, which purchased the ticketing site two years ago. Co-founder Russ d'Souza told me that the deal closed in late November, around the same time that SeatGeek (which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009) closed $2.2 million in new funding from existing investors. The timing, he said, was "not a coincidence" — the round was intended to fund the acquisition.
  • Yahoo Has Closed The Tomfoolery Acquisition, Will Shut Down Anchor, Team To Work For Bonforte | TechCrunch
  • We now have more details about the deal between Yahoo and Tomfoolery, an enterprise app studio co-founded by ex-Yahoo and ex-AOL alums, which we and others have reported is getting acquired by Yahoo.
  • Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down | TechCrunch
  • Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired by Yahoo, TechCrunch has learned. The team is joining Yahoo's mobile group, and Donna will be shut down.
  • Much Hyped AllPeers To DeadPool | TechCrunch
  • UK/Prague based peer to peer file sharing startup AllPeers announced that it is shutting down today: "We have not achieved the kind of growth in our user
  • The End Of Blippy As We Know It | TechCrunch
  • So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn’t enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are sometimes learned the hard way. Thus is the story of the failure of Blippy, a product that launched in private beta in December of 2009 and that we breathlessly fawned over again, and again, and again and again (and again and again ...).
  • Deadpool: Eyespot Closes Its Eyes | TechCrunch
  • For startups without a warchest full of cash, times are about to get very tough. The latest to hit the deadpool is Eyespot, which announced its demise not with a press release, but with a Twitter from co-founder David Dudas stating simply: Eyespot has shut down. Lots of great peeps available: engr, product mgmt, HR, content, bizdev, account mgmt. Let me know if u need anyone. Eyespot raised $3.7 million way back in October, 2006 for its Web-based editor that makes it easier to create video mashups.
  • Edgeio To Shut DownIn The DeadPool | TechCrunch
  • Edgeio, a company I co-founded in 2005, had a final board meeting this evening and made the decision to shut down operations of the company. We are
  • FilmLoop Dips Toes Into The DeadPool | TechCrunch
  • Palo Alto-based FilmLoop has reportedly layed off most of its staff of 30 employees after attempts to sell the company failed. This comes just eight
  • TMobile To Pull The Plug On Sidekicks May 31st | TechCrunch
  • The Sidekick is dead. Long live the Sidekick. The phone that pulled oh-so-many a geek into the mobile world by showing them that phones could do so much
  • Power.com Shuts Down, Domain Name Up For Sale | TechCrunch
  • A tipster informs us that Power.com is no more and that the domain name will be sold through an auction that ends on August 17, 2011. Interested parties can pre-register on the hideous, superlative-laden website in order to receive detailed instructions for the auction in May 2011. Power.com originally made its debut in November 2008 as a site that aggregated data from a variety of social networking sites in a single, Web-based interface.
  • Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It's Down For Good | TechCrunch
  • Cuil, the much maligned search engine that at one time had hopes of toppling Google, has gone offline. And from what we hear from former employees, it's not just a temporary outage, it may be done for good. Those employees who are still with the company apparently weren't paid this week, and they're starting to say they're looking for new jobs. The company had raised $33 million in venture capital in 2007 and 2008. we first started covering Cuil in late 2007 when it was in stealth. It launched in July 2008 but a month later their VP Product had bailed. By December 2008 it had little traffic and since then things have only gotten stranger. To be clear, we've confirmed nothing right now except that the site is down, the rest of what we're hearing is from former employees. We'll update as we hear back from the company and/or investors. Meanwhile, it's in the DeadPuil.
  • HouseFix, The Carfax For Homes, Closes Up Shop | TechCrunch
  • After a year of plugging away, HouseFix, a startup that launched a year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with the goal of becoming the Carfax for your home, has decided to close shop and has pulled down its website. The site now links to RedBeacon.
  • Coghead Grinds To A Halt, Heads To The Deadpool | TechCrunch
  • Coghead, a visual web-based application editor that allowed users to develop enterprise applications using an intuitive GUI, is closing its doors. The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users will be able to access and download their data through April 30, 2009. The site launched back in October 2006, when we praised it for being more accessible than some of its competitors. Since then we've covered it extensively as it allowed users to embed their applications (called Coglets) into any webpage, launched an affiliates program, and more recently, the introduction of Coghead 2.0, which was based on Adobe Flex. This statement was just sent to all customers: Dear Valued Coghead Customer: On behalf of the entire Coghead team, I would like to thank you for your past business. We have taken pride in offering you our state-of-the-art Platform-as-a-Service to support your development of software applications. Regretfully, due to the impact of economic challenges, Coghead has discontinued its operations.
  • Personalized Ecommerce Startup Wantful Shuts Down | TechCrunch
  • Wantful, a San Francisco and New York-based gift giving and personalized e-commerce startup founded in 2011 is shutting down after failing to secure follow-on investment as expected. According to founder and CEO John Poisson, the company had launched a series of well-received products for web, tablet, print and in-store, but did not achieve the kind of "highly accelerated growth" needed to secure the additional capital.
  • Outlook Not So Good: Predictify Heads To The Deadpool | TechCrunch
  • Predictify, a prediction market that launched back in 2007, is closing its doors. The service allowed users to vote on potential outcomes for current news stories (it likened itself to a "fantasy sports for everything else"). Users could have their accuracy measured across multiple polls, both on the site's central hub and on partner sites, and the most clairvoyant of them were featured on the Predictify leaderboard. Last year, the site seemed like it was starting to pick up steam: by summer 2008, it had forged partnerships with The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and it subsequently got CBS News as well. News sites liked Predictify because it could potentially increase reader engagement. Along with its media partnerships, Predictify also offered "Premium Questions", which allowed businesses and market researchers to pose questions to the Predictify user base for a fee. The most accurate users would receive a portion of the money generated by the Premium Questions, and marketers were entitled to all of the resulting data (including demographics).
  • "PressureFree" Car Buying Service CarWoo! Shuts Down | TechCrunch
  • Today is the day for shutdowns, it seems. Joining Outbox and Canvas/DrawQuest as the latest to dive into the Deadpool is CarWoo, a service that aimed to make buying a car less awful.
  • Fundraising Platform For Startups ProFounder Shuts Its Doors | TechCrunch
  • ProFounder, a startup that offered entrepreneurs ways to raise money for their startups and ideas, is shutting its doors, according to an announcement on the company's site today. ProFounder, which is the brainchild of Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley and fellow Stanford Business School alum Dana Mauriello, allowed entrepreneurs to share a percentage of their revenues with investors (their friends, family, and community) over time in exchange for an investment.
  • Deadpool Friday: HireHive, SellIt And Rudder Bite The Dust | TechCrunch
  • Occasionally, we get emails from people about a startup or service shutting down (usually because they were users and received an email notification about the impending death of said company or product). We don't always write a post about those, because, well, the majority of startups in this world happen to die trying to make a difference. That said, we got multiple ones today, so here's a rundown of three recent deadpool entries:
  • RIP Snapjoy: The DropboxAcquired Photo Service Is Shutting Down | TechCrunch
  • Snapjoy, the online photo storage service that Dropbox acquired in December, has some bad news today for its users: it is shutting down. The company noted the information in a blog post, as well as in an email it's currently sending out to users (I am among them: I'm copying the text below).
  • It's Official, The Nirvanix Cloud Storage Service Is Shutting Down | TechCrunch
  • It's official, Nirvanix is shutting down its business. The cloud storage company has scrapped its web site, replacing it with a statement and how to get in touch with customer support.
  • Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web | TechCrunch
  • Just a week after ReFrame It launched its service that lets people annotate Web pages, another startup that's been doing pretty much the same thing since 2006, Fleck, is putting itself up for sale. Fleck is a Dutch company founded by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive, the famous white-suited entrepreneurs who woke up Mike once at his house to pitch their startup. The duo also run the Next Web conference (disclosure: I was the moderator last year) and blog, which they will now be focusing on. I asked Boris, why Fleck never really took off and why he wants to unload it. His answer: Version 1 was too limited and version 2 was too complicated. Latest version is great. Now all it needs is another push and some attention. We can't give it that because we have other interests now (Blog & Conference and our shares in Twones and Wakoopa) and we are out of funding. Time for a new owner!
  • Qik Is Shutting Down In April, Three Years After Being Acquired By Skype | TechCrunch
  • Qik, a company that was very early on in the stream-live-video-from-your-phone trend that popped up and then quickly faded around 2008-2009, is being
  • Brightkite Winds Down, Says It Will Come Back With 'Something Better' (Again) | TechCrunch
  • Remember Brightkite? Launched with the help of TechStars back in August 2007, the location-based 'check-in' service once rivaled the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla, but never really got the traction it needed to keep on competing and win the day: the startup killed the check-in functionality about a year ago to focus on group texting. It's been quiet about Brightkite ever since, and the company's two founders moved on long before the pivot to group texting was announced, starting a new venture dubbed Forkly (our review). Now, a reader tells us, it appears Brightkite (which remained the name even after their 2009 merger with Limbo) is changing course again.
  • Mentat will apply for jobs on your behalf and guarantee you get an interview | TechCrunch
  • Did you know nowadays there are more people who dislike their jobs than like them? While there was once a time where the vast majority of Americans were
  • SplashCast Throws In The Towel On UserGenerated Content; Looking For A Buyer | TechCrunch
  • The allure of building a business around user-generated content is fading fast. SplashCast, a company which launched two years ago around the notion of helping consumers put together videos, text, graphics, and music in embeddable broadcast "channels," is discontinuing its original product. "Most of us would rather consume than create. This is one of the big ticket findings of the Web 2.0 technology wave," concludes CEO Michael Berkley. And after failing to raise a B round of funding, he is now trying to sell the company. Instead of trying to make money off of user-generated broadcast channels, he is focusing on his newer Social TV product, which adds social features such as chat, commenting, and polling to professionally-produced videos. The SplashCast product being discontinued was simply too complicated for most consumers. It was a full content-management system which allowed consumers to bring together videos with images, text, and sound. In a candid assessment of why it fell flat, Berkley says: "We were hoping to launch a publishing revolution. What we found, however, is that very few users are willing and able to make an ongoing commitment to publishing and distributing content. Lots of users test; few stick with it."
  • Hashable, The App That Aimed To Replace Business Cards, To Shut Down On July 25 | TechCrunch
  • Seems it's not time to throw those business cards out just yet. Hashable, the startup that launched back in fall 2010 with the aim of replacing business cards with mobile and web apps that helped people meet and exchange information, is shutting down its service. The company announced the move via an email to users sent this evening.
  • Mentat will apply for jobs on your behalf and guarantee you get an interview
  • Did you know nowadays there are more people who dislike their jobs than like them? While there was once a time where the vast majority of Americans were happy with their current job, now anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of employees are dissatisfied with their current position. Combine that statistic with the fact that
  • Mentat helps jobseekers get their target jobs 10x faster through networking directly with recruiters and hiring managers at companies, while supercharging career services through data driven-insights.
  • After Buying Wibiya For $45M, Conduit Discontinues Product As It Shifts Away From Toolbars | TechCrunch
  • Less than a month after browser-toolbar and mobile startup Conduit merged its Client Connect division with Perion, the company is making another change to its business. Conduit has announced that it will be discontinuing Wibiya, the social browser toolbar service that it acquired in 2011 for $45 million, as it shifts further away from its toolbar business.

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