Bankrupt Amp’d Seeking Funds From CEO Adderton And Others To Repay Creditors
Yes, the Amp’d story refuses to die: Amp’d Mobile is trying to raise cash, even from its former CEO Peter Adderton, to repay some of its cre… Read more »
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Industry Moves: Bill Stone Joins Handango As CEO
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Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the… Read more »
MoComment: Google Should Follow Apple, Not Disney
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What is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinking? I’m not being facetious, I really want to know… The company has a lot of mobile services available,… Read more »
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Amp'd Content Team And Former CEO Close To Joining Wi-Max/Wireless ISP Clearwire
By Rafat Ali
Former Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton and most of the execs on its content (Amp’d Live) team are close to joining Wi-Max broadb… Read more »
Telus Writeoff For Amp'd Mobile Canada: $18 Million
By Rafat Ali
We mentioned yesterday about MTV Networks’ writeoff for its investment in bankrupt Amp’d Mobile ($36 million). Telus, the Canadian teclo whi… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile’s Customer Buyout Approved By Judges; Amp’d Gets 25 Percent Stake In Prexar
By Rafat Ali
Some more developments in Amp’d Mobile’s bankruptcy auction: the Delaware judge has approved United Systems Access (serving under PrexarMobi… Read more »
MTV Networks’ Writeoff On Its Investment In Amp’d: $36 Million
By Rafat Ali
That came out today in MTV’s parent Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) 10-Q filing for its Q2 earnings: “In the second quarter, the Company recorded a pre… Read more »
Amp’d Canada Dead Too
By Rafat Ali
Not that this was a surprise: Amp’d Canada, the JV with Telus, is alo dead, four month after it launched there.Telus, which handled distribu… Read more »
Audio Interview: Peter Adderton, Former CEO, Amp’d Mobile
By Rafat Ali
A wide ranging interview with Peter Adderton, the former founder and CEO of Amp’d Mobile, whose bankruptcy auction proceedings will start to… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile Customers Being Courted By Prexar Mobile; Prexar Buys Customer Assets
By Rafat Ali
Updated Below: I just got a strange text on my Amp’d phone, which as we know will be turned off midnight tomorrow: “Keep your Ampd phone and… Read more »
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Amp’d Users Get Another Week
By Rafat Ali
So it seems, after a revised FAQ on the Amp’d website tonight. LAT is also reporting the same. So July 31 it is then. Read more »
Amp’d Mobile: Live Free And Die Hard
By Rafat Ali
The teaser campaign TV ads for Amp’d Mobile (done in last 2005 before they launched last year) will go down in history as the most ironicall… Read more »
Amp’d Turning Off Service Tuesday
By Rafat Ali
Details are up here now on the Amp’d website and the customers are being told about it later today, through text messages. The service will… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile Decides To Sell Off Assets
By Rafat Ali
As I mentioned earlier today, things are a lot bleaker for Amp’d with no debtor-in-possession financing in place. The company has filed with… Read more »
Will Amp’d Close Down Its Service Monday?
By Rafat Ali
Unless there are other last minute shenanigans and getting debtor-in-possession financing, one might expect Amp’d Mobile to close its servic… Read more »
Amp’d Drama Continues: Verizon Wants Out, For Real
By Rafat Ali
The drama continues in the bankruptcy court, as Verizon Wireless, frustrated by the failure of Amp’d to line up a bankruptcy loan, wants to… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile’s Settlement With Verizon Wireless Approved
By Rafat Ali
Some more reprieve for Amp’d, though judging by the comments on our posts here and here, there are some angry customers: anyway, the Delawar… Read more »
Amp’d Signs Deal With Verizon For Network Usage
By James Quintana Pearce
Amp’d has signed a deal with with Verizon that will see the MVNO continue to use the carrier’s network, in exchange for Amp’d dropping its l… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile Gets A Week’s Lifeline; Can Take Money; Sues Verizon
By Rafat Ali
Some more interim developments in the Amp’d Mobile Chapter 11 bankruptcy court proceedings: the judge had extended its lifeline for another… Read more »
Peter Adderton Offically Out Of Amp’d Mobile
By Rafat Ali
We’ve confirmed through sources: Peter Adderton, the embattled CEO of the now-in-Chapter-11 MVNO Amp’d Mobile, has left the firm as CEO. He… Read more »
Amp’d Bankruptcy Hurts Mobile Porn — NYT
By James Quintana Pearce
The New York Times has drawn a fairly long bow by reporting that “Amp’d Mobile’s filing for protection from bankruptcy on June 1 may have on… Read more »
Amp’d Bankruptcy: Day In Court; Verizon Answers Back
Amp’d Mobile’s first bankruptcy hearing was Tuesday afternoon in Wilmington. Steven Yoder, one of the attorneys representing Amp’d, told me… Read more »
Amp’d's Fall And Virgin’s IPO
By James Quintana Pearce
There are some parallels being drawn between Amp’d and Virgin, which isn’t going to help the latter’s planned IPO. Of course, Amp’d is also… Read more »
Amp’d Bankruptcy: All Our Coverage
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Amp’d Bankruptcy: Verizon Played Key Role In Timing; Threatened To Shut Off Service
Verizon played a key role in Amp’d Mobile’s decision to file for bankruptcy late Friday — and the timing, according to an affidavit by Bill… Read more »
Amp’d Bankruptcy: By The Numbers: ‘Liquidity Crisis’ Due, In Part, To 80,000 Non-Paying Customers
When a company files for bankruptcy, details that have been kept on the inside — or sometimes provided without any way for the the listener… Read more »
Amp’s Official Statement on Bankruptcy; Continuing Operations
By Rafat Ali
Amp’d PR finally sends around an official statement on the Chapter 11 filing. The official reasoning: “As a result of our rapid growth, our… Read more »
Amp’d Bankruptcy Filing: Verizon Wireless Largest Creditor With $33 Million
By Rafat Ali
Amp’d Mobile’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has a wealth of info on the company’s creditors, and a list… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; Hopes To Restructure, With Funding In Place
By Rafat Ali
Update: it has filed…see this follow-up post.
Amp’d Mobile, the content-heavy MVNO which has had close to $360 million pumped into it over… Read more »
Adderton Says He’s Still CEO But Amp’d Leadership Status Remains Unclear
As we wrote last night, lots of questions about Amp’d founder Peter Adderton’s status as CEO — is he in, is he out, is he somewhere in betw… Read more »
Adderton Leaving Amp’d Mobile? Board Struggles
By Rafat Ali
Leads are coming in fast and furious on this one: Peter Adderton, the outspoken founder and CEO of Amp’d Mobile MVNO he founded three years… Read more »
New Dimensions, Tensions & Players Add Complexity To Mobile Advertising
By Peggy Anne Salz
The raft of recent mobile advertising deals create buzz in the mobile space but they also create new challenges for companies up and down th… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile Says It Has About 200K Subscribers
By Rafat Ali
Mine is bigger than yours, only, it is still very small: Amp’d Mobile has released some more subscriber number at the end of Q1: it is reach… Read more »
Fox Reality Programming On Amp’d
By James Quintana Pearce
Unscripted programmng channel Fox Reality has made its first move into mobile by providing up to four hours of daily content to Amp’d. This… Read more »
Amp’d Launches Spongebob Squarepants Channel
By James Quintana Pearce
Amp’d has signed deals with Viacom subsidiaries MTV and Nickelodean to launch a couple of new video channels. In the second quarter Amp’d TV… Read more »
Amp’d Mobile May Face $100K Fine From FCC
By Rafat Ali
The Federal Communications Commission in U.S. is proposing a $100K fine against Amp’d Mobile and two other companies for failing to protect… Read more »
Amp’d Opens Review for $65 Million Ad Account
By Rafat Ali
So after the big money raise, Amp’d Mobile is reviewing its ad account, which spent $35 million last year (though still very small compared… Read more »
Amp’d Preloads Slingbox, Orb
By James Quintana Pearce
Amp’d will start selling Motorola’s Q smartphone next month, but the interesting part is that the handset comes with Sling Media’s SlingPlay… Read more »
MocoInterview: Seth Cummings On Taking Amp’d Content International
By James Quintana Pearce
Following Amp’d's launch in Canada last week and its efforts in Japan, I spoke to Amp’d Senior Vice President for Content Development & Prog… Read more »
Amp’d Announces Canada Launch, Also Japan Launch
By James Quintana Pearce
Amp’d has finally issued a press release about its launch in Canada last week. I’m not saying they forgot, but…
The release includes deta… Read more »
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