• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Strata-gee
  • Contact Us
  • Free Newsletter
  • Sponsor Strata-gee
  • Privacy Policy
  • Latest Posts
  • Strategy
  • Technology
  • Products
  • People
  • Statistics
  • Financial
  • Legal
  • Economic
  • Events

Strata-gee.com

Strategy in TECH...

What Savant Can Do
You are here: Home / Archives for AllthingsD

AllthingsD

Rare Steve Jobs Fail – Apple Reportedly Will Shut Down Ping Social Network

June 13, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Graphic of Ping ServiceThe Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD blog are reporting that unnamed sources at Apple have indicated that the company plans to pull the plug on its Ping social networking service, perhaps as early as this fall. Ping, a sort of Facebook for music was incorporated into their iTunes software back in 2010 and launched by famed company chairman Steve Jobs to great fanfare.

Why is Ping failing, even after a full marketing push by the industry kingpin?… [Read more…] about Rare Steve Jobs Fail – Apple Reportedly Will Shut Down Ping Social Network

Filed Under: Industry Trends, Management, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: AllthingsD, Apple, Facebook, Huffington Post, MySpace, Ping, Twitter

Primary Sidebar

Search

Sign-Up for Our FREE Newsletter

loader

Latest Posts

T-Day+1: Tariffs…And So It Begins…

**NEW Update 7/03/25** - See an Updated Selection of Tariff Programs from Around … [Read More...] about T-Day+1: Tariffs…And So It Begins…

Latest Financial Results for Samsung and LG Show Impact of Trade Troubles

Two major South Korean tech behemoths, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, … [Read More...] about Latest Financial Results for Samsung and LG Show Impact of Trade Troubles

  • T-Day+1: Tariffs…And So It Begins…
  • Tariffs: New Business Survey Shows Companies are Already Feeling the Pain
  • Harman Luxury Audio Group Names Progressive Custom Integration as Rep for 7 Territories
  • Happy Independence Day!

Categories

Sponsors

Crestron Register for Expo
AudioControl Single Zone Amps
Sonance James Small Aperture
Savant
Oasys Residential Technology Group

Tag Cloud

acquisition Amazon Apple AudioControl B&W Bowers & Wilkins CEDIA CEDIA Expo CES Control4 Core Brands COVID-19 Crestron D&M Holdings Denon Emerald Expositions Foxconn Gibson Brands Gibson Guitar Google headphones Henry Juszkiewicz Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. housing starts Integra Joe Kiani LG Masimo Nortek OLED Onkyo Panasonic patent infringement Pioneer Samsung Savant Sharp smart home SnapAV Snap One Sonos Sony Sound United SpeakerCraft Toshiba

Footer

Got News?

HEY PR & Marketing Pros: Have NEWS for Strata-gee readers?

Send it to: HotNews@strata-gee.com

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Sponsor Strata-gee

Strata-gee Ads

Archives

Translate

Ted Green Bio

A former dealer, manufacturer, distributor & more. Focusing on business strategy, my goal is to help you make better decisions for greater success.

Follow Ted Green

  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram

Copyright © 2025 Strata-gee.com · The Stratecon Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved · Log in