Color commentary on a move that shows how rapidly evolving technology can force corporate flip-flops. The Flip, a quick and easy video recorder that captures spontaneous moments for instant uploading ...

Wow. Networking kingpin Cisco, which had been making a major push into the home in recent years, has announced that it’s dramatically scaling back its consumer efforts. It’s shutting down its Flip ...

Cisco's acquisition of Pure Digital, maker of the Flip video camera, was notable because it signaled a stronger move into the consumer market too. But Cisco also noted that the Flip can also be a ...

Cisco will shut its consumer Flip video camera business and cut jobs, as part of a major retrenchment back to its core product lines. In a wide-ranging memo issued to Cisco employees on 4 April chief ...

Cisco is shutting down a business unit that it bought for over half-a-billion dollars: the Flip camcorder division. That's a shame, considering how high the Flip was flying a few short years ago. It's ...

How abruptly did Cisco kill the beloved, very popular Flip camcorder? It moved so suddenly that there are still street ads up for the thing, or at least were as of a couple of weeks ago. Some Flip ...

The acquisition, and its high-dollar price tag, has industry analysts wondering exactly why Cisco would scoop up a purely consumer-centric technology, that by many accounts is more a toy than a tool.

The Flip video camera line that Cisco acquired from Pure Digital in 2009 was still a hot seller. So why did Cisco abandon it? Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

Cisco is calling it quits on its Flip video unit. The company has announced a realignment of its business operations that will result in it scaling back its consumer facing divisions. The Flip, which ...

Cisco Systems Inc. will shut down its Flip video camera business in an overhaul of its troubled consumer products business, following chief John Chambers' recent admission that the company had lost ...

Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies Inc. San Francisco-based Pure Digital, creator of the best-selling Flip Video™ brand, is a pioneer in developing ...

Flip founder and former CEO Jon Kaplan is sad that Cisco killed his product this morning. AllThingsD reporter Kara Swisher interviewed Kaplan this morning at a Starbucks in San Francisco and got him ...