Executive Summary: Endomondo is a fitness-based platform that allows its users to track, record, and analyse their workouts. Endomondo was shut down because its owner Under Armour wanted to direct users to its own app called MapMyRun. What Is Endomondo? Endomondo is a fitness-based platform that allows its users to track, record, and analyse their … Read more
Executive Summary: QuizUp is a social trivia game that requires players to compete against each other by answering random questions. QuizUp is discontinued because the developers behind the game were unable to properly monetize the game. What Is QuizUp? QuizUp is a social trivia game that requires players to compete against each other by answering … Read more
Executive Summary: Kik is a free mobile messaging application that can be used to send audio, text, images, GIFs, as well as video files. Kik failed because it consistently changed its strategic direction, changing ownership, as well as due to its inability to effectively moderate content on the platform. Kik, after various failed attempts at … Read more
Executive Summary: Photobucket is an image and video hosting platform that has stored over 15 billion personal images since its inception. Photobucket failed because of heightened competition as well as due to its dependency on other platforms. What Is Photobucket? Photobucket is an image and video hosting platform that has stored over 15 billion personal … Read more
Executive Summary: Ask Jeeves, now called Ask.com, is a question-and-answer site as well as a search engine that allows users to browse the web for answers. Ask Jeeves was shut down because Ask.com, the company behind it, wanted to undergo a rebrand to further enhance its position in the search industry. What Is Ask Jeeves? … Read more
Executive Summary: Hotmail is a free as well as paid service that allows users to send and receive emails over its web client. Hotmail was shut down in 2013 because Microsoft wanted to move users towards Outlook, which had a much better reputation and cleaner codebase. What Is Hotmail? Hotmail is a free as well … Read more
Executive Summary: AltaVista was a search engine as well as a web portal that allowed users to browse the world wide web as well as UseNet. AltaVista failed because of its alternating ownership, due to a failed shift towards becoming a portal, as well as its core search business was eventually overtaken by Google. What … Read more
Executive Summary: Netscape Communications Corporation (originally launched as Mosaic Communications Corporation) is a former American technology company. The company developed the world’s dominating browser but ultimately lost out to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer due to a set of anticompetitive practices. AOL eventually acquired Netscape in 1998 for $10 billion. After a series of missteps, Netscape eventually … Read more
Executive Summary: MapQuest is an online mapping platform that provides location data through satellite imagery and maps. The primary reason why MapQuest failed was that its product simply wasn’t as good as alternative mapping solutions. What Is MapQuest? MapQuest is an online mapping platform that provides location data through satellite imagery and maps. People can … Read more
Executive Summary: LimeWire was a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that allowed its users to download and upload music in the form of MP3 and other file formats. LimeWire was shut down in October 2010 as a result of a legal battle between the company and the Recording Industry Association of America. The company rebranded back in … Read more