December 8, 2023
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OpenView abruptly shuts down amid challenging VC climate, despite raising a total of $2.4 billion in funding
Nickie Louise December 6, 2023

Zeus Living, a real estate startup backed by Airbnb, is shutting down after raising $150M in total funding
Daniel Levi November 8, 2023

From unicorn to bankruptcy: WeWork, once most valuable US startup, files for bankruptcy
Nickie Louise November 7, 2023


Intuit is shutting down Mint, a popular personal finance app acquired in 2009 for $170 million; moves users to Credit Karma
Nickie Louise November 6, 2023

WeWork to file for bankruptcy as early as next week after burning through $22 billion of investors’ money
Nickie Louise November 1, 2023

Pebble, the ‘Twitter killer’ social media app, meets an abrupt demise and shuts down after 10 months
Daniel Levi October 24, 2023


Why Online Businesses Fail: Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid
Nickie Louise October 18, 2023

91% of Startups Fail: Here are the top 25 reasons why startups fail in 2022
Nickie Louise September 19, 2023

Startups shutting down in 2023: Tech startups that closed up shops in Q2 as venture market cools
Nickie Louise August 1, 2023


Google shuts down its domain registrar business; sells to Squarespace for $180 million about a decade after launch
Daniel Levi June 15, 2023

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to report to prison today to begin her 11-year sentence
Daniel Levi May 30, 2023

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to arrive at prison on May 30 to begin her 11-year sentence
Nickie Louise May 18, 2023


Vice is preparing to file for bankruptcy just 2 weeks after Buzzfeed News shuttered
Daniel Levi May 2, 2023

Top tech startup news for Wednesday, April 26, 2023: Axoni, First Republic Bank, GM, Microsoft, and Relay
Daniel Levi April 26, 2023

BuzzFeed News is shutting down after 12 years online
Nickie Louise April 20, 2023


Bittrex shuts down US crypto exchange amid regulatory crackdown on crypto industry
Daniel Levi March 31, 2023

FTX Bankman-Fried says he donated “dark money” to the Republicans to avoid criticism from journalists, claiming they’re “all secretly super liberal”
Nickie Louise December 1, 2022

Worse than Enron: Sam Bankman-Fried used FTX’s customers’ money to fund his lavish lifestyles and employees. Here’s the full text of FTX’s bankruptcy filing
Daniel Levi November 17, 2022


Google shuts down its online translation service in China
Nickie Louise October 4, 2022

Unbanking the unbanked: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10 million before the company filed for bankruptcy
Nickie Louise October 3, 2022