Neowin News Feed for: Closure

Oppo reportedly closing its chip design business

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:24:01 +0000

Oppo is closing its Zeku chip design business due to the weakening global economy. Zeku was responsible for designing various components to help separate Oppo's phones from the competition. Read more...

Amazon shuts Book Depository almost 20 years after it was founded

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:46:01 +0000

Book Depository, a UK-based online bookstore owned by Amazon, will close down on April 26. Both Book Depository and Amazon confirmed the closure of the website, it's likely a result of Amazon's cuts. Read more...

Eight Amazon Go stores will close from April 1 in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:12:23 +0000

Amazon will close eight of its Amazon Go stores from April 1. It's not clear why it's shutting the stores but the company has said it's not giving up on its chain of checkout-less stores. Read more...

Konami denies shutting down its gaming division

Usama Jawad — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:22:01 +0000

Recently, rumors emerged that Konami is shutting down its gaming division. However, the firm has now refuted the claim, stating that it is simply doing some internal restructuring of its departments. Read more...

Vidme to shutter its site due to costs and tough competition

Boyd Chan — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:12:02 +0000

Citing the dominance of Facebook and YouTube in the user-created content space along with unsustainable costs, Vidme will wind up its site and focus on a new product to be announced next year. Read more...

Microsoft confirms pullout of its brick and mortar stores across Brazil

Steven Parker — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:06:48 +0000

Less than one year after Microsoft opened a retail store in São Paulo, the company has now announced it will close off all of its retail points in the country, opting for online-only sales. Read more...

File sharing host Rapidshare to close March 31, users asked to backup data

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:54:01 +0000

Yet another file sharing website will soon be lost to history, and again for undisclosed reasons. The site is now displaying a message on its homepage asking users to backup their data, or lose it. Read more...

Samsung Music to close on July 1st

James Walker — Tue, 20 May 2014 23:02:50 +0000

Samsung is to close its own audio streaming service, Samsung Music, and its associated Android app, Samsung Music Hub, on 1st July meaning that customers should begin using up existing vouchers now. Read more...

Tweetdeck gets shut down by the UK government

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 07 May 2013 12:17:37 +0000

Tweetdeck, the company that created the Twitter client, has been shut down by the UK government for failing to file appropriate documentation. However this was no surprise to Twitter UK Ltd. Read more...

Humble Indie Bundle 7 launched

John Callaham — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:54:03 +0000

Humble Indie Bundle 7 has launched, allowing anyone to pay pretty much whatever they want for a new series of great indie games, and one movie that celebrates indie games. Read more...

THQ Announces Cancellations; Dev Studio Closure

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:22:29 +0000

According to THQ's latest quarterly report, the popular game publisher will be canceling several of their upcoming titles and have decided to close internal development studio Concrete Games. The California-based studio had one unannounced project... Read more...

Solaris free software portal faces closure

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:37:47 +0000

Lack of funding may force free software portal Blastwave, one of the only sources for pre-packaged Solaris software, to close its doors. Since 2002, the portal has been bundling publicly available software... Read more...

Westwood Studios closure confirmed

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:27:09 +0000

HomeLAN has more information on the closings of both Westwood Studios and EA Pacific as announced by Electronic Arts earlier today. EA's Vice-President of Corporate Communications Jeff Brown told HomeLAN this evening in a phone... Read more...