Browsing: Failure Stories

The 2010s saw the Death of Various Tech Products, Devices, Apps & Companies like AIM, Moviepass, Vine, the headphone Jack, MagSafe Blockbuster, MP3 Players, or BlackBerry phones. Learn More

“In its 81-year run, the Beetle sold over 23 million units. In 2019 the final Beetle rolled off the line in Puebla, Mexico. After eight decades, has the Volkswagen Beetle finally hit the end of the road? Scott Keogh, Volkswagen America CEO, says “never say never.” “- Business Insider

The Toyota Prius, world’s first mass produced hybrid car, set the world on the trend to Producing Hybrid and even EV. But now its fast falling behind as the Market is changing. Learn More

In the early ’90s, Nintendo dominated the video game industry & had over 90% of the market. However, its reign at the top was cut short with a series of strategic blunders and crashed to the bottom.

Learn all about Blockbuster, that was once valued as $3B Company & owned over 9,000 video-rental stores in the U.S. But soon it filed for bankruptcy with almost $1 billion in debt. Learn More.

AOL was one of the most recognised internet brands in the U.S & provided a dial-up service, email, instant messaging service to millions of Americans, but rapidly declined after Time Warner Purchase.

Learn about the The Ultimate Failure of MySpace, the Ultimate Reasons about its Failure and Was it Facebook that led to its demise or was it a Strategic Failure ? Learn More.

Learn about the Top 10 Social Media Platform that started well but then Failed like the Failures of Platforms like Orkut, Google+, MySpace, Friendster etc.

Learn what happened to Yelp ever since it went public in 2012. Why did advertisers leave the platform and what was the impact of increased competition from Google, Facebook and others.

At its peak in December 1999, AOL had a market capitalisation of 222 billion dollars.…