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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Then there was Verizon's bid to rescue #RedBox with a new joint-venture streaming service, #RedboxInstant, launched 2012, killed in 2014, $450,000,000 later:

https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/verizon-redbox-to-pull-plug-on-video-streaming-service-1201321484/

Then there was #Sugarstring, a tech "news" website where journalists were prohibited from saying nice things about #NetNeutrality or #surveillance - born 2014, died 2014:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/2/7324063/verizon-kills-off-sugarstring

An app store, started in 2010, killed in 2012:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3605618/verizon-apps-store-closing-january-2013

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

#Vcast, 2005-2012, yet *another* failed streaming service (pray that someday you find someone who loves you as much as Verizon's C-suite loves doomed streaming services):

https://venturebeat.com/media/verizon-vcast-shutting-down/

And the daddy of them all, #Oath, Verizon's 2017, $4.8b acquisition of Yahoo/AOL, whose name refers to the fact that the company's mismanagement provoked involuntary swearing from all who witnessed the $4.6 billion write-down the company took a year later:

https://www.techdirt.com/2018/12/12/if-youre-surprised-verizons-aol-yahoo-face-plant-you-dont-know-verizon/

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