Amp'd Mobile To Go Silent Tonight
Amp’d Mobile, one of the early stalwarts in mobile media that burned through $360 million in venture capital, might be shutting down entirely this evening, according to Engadget.
On Friday, the popular tech blog reported that Amp’d Mobile filed with a bankruptcy judge to sell its assets at auction “after discovering that it was unable to line up debtor-in-possession financing.” Amp’d was an entirely different proposition than, say, Verizon’s V CAST mobile TV service. In the case of Amp’d, consumers signed up for their cellphone through that company, and had Amp’d-specific handsets, plans, and channels to watch.
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