{"id":9913,"date":"2019-10-30T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2019-10-30T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T21:35:38","slug":"will-i-ams-i-am-has-gone-broke-its-taking-wink-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/will-i-ams-i-am-has-gone-broke-its-taking-wink-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Will.i.am\u2019s i.am+ has gone broke &#038; it&#8217;s taking Wink with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9914\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/27124048\/na11-FEB-Will-I-Am-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"673\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will.i.am\u2019s technology company i.am+ is running out of money, according to current employees, company emails, and documents obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/25\/20932055\/wink-smart-home-problems-iamplus-william-black-eyed-peas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Originally started as an iPhone case manufacturer i.am+ leaped into the hardware market with smartwatches and <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/reviews\/review-iam-buttons\/\">headphones<\/a> before deciding to buy smarthome platform Wink.<\/p>\n<p>Now employees haven&#8217;t been paid in 7 weeks and a deal with Dubai-based retail giant Majid Al Futtaim has gone AWOL, leaving the company reportedly cash-poor.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the company is over US$2m behind in its taxes and you&#8217;re painting a very bleak picture for the road ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/25\/20932055\/wink-smart-home-problems-iamplus-william-black-eyed-peas\">Smart home platform Wink is dying as Will.i.am\u2019s tech company is low on money &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will.i.am\u2019s technology company i.am+ is running out of money, according to current employees, company emails, and documents obtained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1450,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}