In a long and heartfelt post, Omegle's founder Lief K. Brooks has announced that the live video chatting platform is now shutting down. He shared his sentiments and reasons for the decision.
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LinkedIn is shutting down its China-focused local jobs app called InCareer, which will result in the departure of 716 employees from the company. The operations will wind down by August this year.
EA is shutting down the servers of four classic DICE games and removing them from sale this year. The titles impacted are Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 1 and 2, as well as Mirror's Edge.
Rumbleverse's servers are going offline, just six months after launch. The free-to-play melee-focused battle royale built by Iron Galaxy and Epic Games is also offering refunds to existing players.
In what appears to be a part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting measures, Amazon has decided to shut down its Amazon Academy, an online learning platform for high-school engineering aspirants.
Microsoft has tweaked the Shutdown dialog box as well as the WinRE Recovery interface with the new WinUI design elements and added new icons which update these elements and ensure consistency.
Google is forcing Discord music bot Rythm to close its doors to users. The service is massively popular on Discord with installations on over 20 million servers and a user base of 560 million.
Nintendo has announced that it is shutting down Dr. Mario World in November, just a little over two years after the game's launch. The title was reportedly doing poorly in terms of revenue.
PayPal will be shutting down its domestic payment service that allowed Indians to pay domestic merchants in local currency. However, the company will continue to offer cross-border payments in India.
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.
The Chinese government would rather see TikTok U.S. shut down than being forcefully sold. The officials believe that a forced sale would make the government and ByteDance appear weak.
It has come to light that live-streaming platform Twitch is going to shut down its online karaoke game service, Sings. The Amazon-owned subsidiary is going to start removing content from December 1.
Sony is shutting down its PlayStation Vue TV streaming service on January 30, 2020 due to what it describes as "expensive content and network deals" in the competitive Pay TV industry.
Wise Auto Shutdown is a small utility that you can use to schedule automatic shutdown, restart, sleep or logoff on your PC.
Naughty Dog will shut down PS3 multiplayer servers for Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and The Last of Us on September 3. Until then, the service remains active, and all multiplayer DLC is free to get.
Telltale Games' liquidation process has already begun, and multiple games by the studio such as Back to the Future have been removed from Steam as the company prepares to shut down for good.
Yahoo!'s nearly two decade old service will finally be shutting down next month. The company has also provided a way for users to download their chat history until the date of closure.
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.
The authorities have ordered Bitcoin exchange executives to stay in the country in order to help the authorities with their investigations as they move to close down Bitcoin exchanges in China.
Publisher Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games, has issued a cease and desist letter against long-running modding tool OpenIV. Distribution of the tool has been halted.
Apple has posted an article to its Chinese support page explaining the cause of recent unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6s devices. The shutdowns stem from of a "controlled ambient air" exposure issue.
Apple has announced a worldwide program to provide free battery replacements for "a very small number of iPhone 6s devices" that have been affected by "unexpected shutdown issues".
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The radio-style online music streaming service Rdio fell on hard times in recent months, forcing the company to sell off much of its business - and now it's set a date for the closure of its services.
Samsung expanded its Milk Music streaming service to include curated video clips from providers like BuzzFeed and Funny or Die - but Milk Video is to be shut down, one day after its first birthday.
Comcast says it will shut down its Xfinity app on the Xbox 360, and remove the app from those consoles, on September 1, "to make way for new updates and improvements to our online experience".
After announcing changes to its Google+ platform earlier this year, the search giant has now revealed that its Google+ Photos app will shut down next month, beginning with the Android version.
Grooveshark has ceased operations to avoid paying up to $736m in damages to music labels for copyright violations, posting an apology on its site for 'failing to secure licenses from rights holders'.
The Pirate Bay is back online with a few changes; the site's logo is changed as well as the staff. The site is not fully functional yet but will probably be restored to its original form soon.
The Pirate Bay was shut down almost two weeks ago with no solid indication of making a return. However, now the website is back online with a waving pirate flag giving some hope to its fans.
Dark net sites hide a user's identity by routing their traffic through a series of computers. They have been associated with illegal activity so many of them are being shut down in a global raid.
For the past six years, Twitter users have relied on TwitPic to host photos and videos. But after September 25th, they will have to look elsewhere, as the service will shut down indefinitely.
Microsoft is finally shutting down its Windows Live Messenger service - still popularly known as 'MSN Messenger' - on October 31, after it closed in all markets last year with the exception of China.
The creators behind Popcorn Time have decided to shut the project down, mentioning that they do not want to deal with endless debates on piracy and legal threats.
A number of websites run by the U.S. government, including the Library of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission sites, could go offline Tuesday if Congress can't approve a budget.
One of the most popular Usenet indexing services on the internet, NZBMatrix, has voluntarily shut down over troubles with constantly complying with DMCA takedown notices thanks to rampant piracy.
Microsoft has announced that its Digital Crimes Unit has participated in a raid of a criminal botnet earlier this month that installed variants of the Zeus malware.
In the latest post on the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft introduces Windows 8's new "hybrid boot" feature, which enables 30-70% faster boot times than Windows 7.
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