Shut down News

AOL Music may be shutting down and firing all its staff according to tweets made by some of its employees posted Friday (April 26).

Cagliari - One of the Sardinian coal miners, barricaded underground in protest over the possible closure of the mine, slit his wrist live on TV during a press conference.

San Francisco - Being billed as the largest demonstration in San Francisco in a decade, Occupy San Francisco is preparing to unleash a massive street protest on Friday which could shut down the city’s financial district.

Politics that lead to government shutdowns will greatly influence future government interruptions resulting from Congress’s failure to enact within a certain time-frame, such as the October 1 deadline for FEMA funding.

While shutting down dozens of Mexican ice cream vendors during Sunday's San Francisco Symphony concert in Dolores Park, police also put an end to a successful lemonade stand that kids were running.

GM will discontinue its Saturn brand after deal with Penske fell through. Penske's board of directors rejected an initial agreement with GM that was reached in June.

On Friday, Chrysler closed its Canadian assembly plants on a indefinite basis due to the company's bankruptcy protection filing the day before in the United States.

Despite the recent case where a woman was murdered after meeting someone on the popular website Craigslist, its founder says he has no plans to shut down the “erotic services” section of the website.

Breaking News: It is being reported by AP that sources at General Motors are telling them the company is preparing to shut down most of its US plants for up to nine weeks this summer.

Microsoft said it plans to discontinue its Encarta encyclopedia by the end of 2009. The move comes after the company secretly admitted it's unable to compete with Wikipedia.