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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


Airlift, Pakistan’s second-largest startup, shuts down as global downturn claims another tech casualty
Nickie Louise July 13, 2022

EV-truck tech startup Electric Last Mile files for bankruptcy; plans to liquidate
Daniel Levi June 13, 2022

CNN+, a streaming-only platform launched by CNN, is shutting down just a month after launch and $500 million flushed down the drain
Daniel Levi April 22, 2022


The fraud trial for the disgraced Elizabeth Holmes, founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, begins today. Here’s everything you need to know
Daniel Levi August 31, 2021

These founders burned $140,000,000 of investors’ money. Here are the lessons they learned and what NOT to do in a startup
Daniel Levi August 20, 2021