Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively engaged with the company and board in areas including corporate strategy, strategic partners and acquisitions,” the company said. Handango was…

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, and there are quite a few indications that it’s working on its own handset. Add to that its expressed interest in bidding for spectrum in the…

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 broadband wireless ISP Clearwire (Nasdaq:CLWR), MocoNews.net has learned. The team moving to Clearwire includes Seth Cummings, former SVP of content at Amp’d and currently exec producer…

We mentioned yesterday about MTV Networks’ writeoff for its investment in bankrupt Amp’d Mobile ($36 million). Telus, the Canadian teclo which invested in Amp’d and opened up Amp’d Canada, also did a writeoff of about $18 million on the investment. And the service there closed down too, of course. Telus…

Some more developments in Amp’d Mobile’s bankruptcy auction: the Delaware judge has approved United Systems Access (serving under PrexarMobile brand name) purchase of the MVNO’s customers. The deal calls for United Systems to pay a combination of cash and stock in return for access to Amp’d Mobile’s remaining customers, reports…

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-tax impairment charge of $36.0 million to write off its investment in Amp’d Mobile, which filed for bankruptcy. The impairment charge is included in Other items,…

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 distribution, customer care and billing for the upstart, pulled the plug July 31. It stopped selling Amp’d Mobile Canada’s products in its own stores and through other…

A wide ranging interview with Peter Adderton, the former founder and CEO of Amp’d Mobile, whose bankruptcy auction proceedings will start tomorrow morning in court. I spoke to him earlier this evening on phone..below are the choice quotes and you can also download the audio from the link below: —Our…

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 get 100 free TXT by switching to Prexar Mobile. For info, go to www.prexarmobile.com”. This probably means Amp’d has done some sort of…

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.

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 ironically prescient ads of all times: and

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 go off on Tuesday at midnight, July 24. The early termination fee does not apply to all the cutomers who will have to decide which…

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 the bankruptcy court, and has finally decided to sell its assets. Amp’d said in the court filing that it has continued to look for buyers, but has…

Unless there are other last minute shenanigans and getting debtor-in-possession financing, one might expect Amp’d Mobile to close its service by Monday…that’s just my hunch, and not based on reporting, for once. What else can you do with only $9,000 in cash by coming Monday? I know the company’s also…

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 disconnect the startup once and for all, according to a new brief filed in the court, picked up by AP. Despite the Delaware bankruptcy judge saying…

Some more reprieve for Amp’d, though judging by the comments on our posts here and here, there are some angry customers: anyway, the Delaware bankruptcy judge said Amp’d can pay $2.5 million to VZW under a deal that will allow the start-up to continue using Verizon’s cellular network while it…

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 lawsuit to prevent Verizon kicking it off the network. This gives Amp’d the ability to continue to offer services as it works through its financial…

Some more interim developments in the Amp’d Mobile Chapter 11 bankruptcy court proceedings: the judge had extended its lifeline for another week, allowing the mobile phone network to tap $7.5 million in cash belonging to lender Verizon Wireless…the judge signed off on Amp’d request to use Verizon’s cash collateral until…

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 is still on the board and is still the largest individual shareholder. The company is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the management overhaul is to be expected.…