One year after being acquired by Twitter, Posterous shuts it all down

February 15, 2013 3:54 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

From Twitter's perspective, I guess, once the aqui-hire is complete and you have the hires, why keep the acqui?

NBC News abruptly yanks the plug on hyperlocal news outfit EveryBlock

February 7, 2013 12:25 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Hyperlocal news business EveryBlock, an early pioneer in data-driven news aggregation, has been shut down by parent NBC News, it announced today.

Google abandons social service Aardvark with shutdown of Labs

September 2, 2011 2:19 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Today, Google announced it will shut down social question-and-answer service Aardvark at the end of September.

Aardvark will join several other soon-to-be-discontinued services as part of the closing of Google Labs.

“Aardvark began as a small experiment in a new …