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Jul 31 2007 12:00am EDT

Amp'd: The Great Flameout Gets Even Weirder

Amp'd Mobile has to be one of the biggest tech flameouts since...well, it's hard to recall many start-ups that burned through more than $360 million in funding and racked up another $100 million in debt. Maybe Webvan?

Anyway, if all that isn't weird enough, Venture Beat is reporting that among the assets the company now lists for sale is a lot of porn the company apparently produced to eventually sell over cell phones.

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