Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby

7/9/2010

This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company’s gift shop on August 1st of this year Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to wonder why the company would take such dramatic steps.

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