Facebook kills daily deals, but keep-registration transactions

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Quietly announcing they have killed off their nascent product deals this afternoon, Facebook has caused some confusion. (C) a decision to kill off Facebook site earlier this week, you see, everyone wanted to know what this means for location-based transactions, they started with it? Those who remain alive, Facebook said at the time. With today's performance will change anything?

No, says Facebook. Daily transactions separated from check transactions. -Registration of transactions will work slightly differently from the end of the site, but the company will continue to maintain and strengthen this product. Daily deals are dead — and e-mail account thanks them for it.

Facebook's statement on this issue:

After testing transactions for four months, we decided to put an end to our product deals in the coming weeks. We believe that there are a lot of power in the social approach to driving people in local enterprises. We remain committed to building products to help local businesses connect with people like ads, landing pages, authors of short stories and registration transactions. We learned a lot from our tests, and we will continue to evaluate how to best serve local businesses.

The more brutal terms that might be easier to understand: they are killing off their Groupon killer while maintaining a half their Foursquare killer during the murder of the other half of their Foursquare killer.

The following is a reminder of what still alive registration transaction will look on iPhone Facebook application:

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It's official: HP kills off webOS phones and touch pad

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Brace yourselves, webOS fans.

In the hours before the Conference call Q3 later today, HP has just confirmed that they would cease operations associated with the touch pad and all the phones webOS.

According to their press release:

HP announced that it plans to announce that it will cease operations for webOS devices, specifically the touchpad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options for optimizing the value of the webOS software, go ahead.

This news will come as a huge hit in the gut for fans of webOS (including me, although you can't say that we could not see it coming), many of which were the product of years — the first in the hope that eventually the Palm will be worthy of a pretty fantastic device's operating system, and later in the hope that the HP purchase of Palm could spark a fire, which simply never seemed tolight.

On the upside, webOS, the itself is not dead – at least not just yet. HP wording up above leaves things a bit blurred, with at least two potential routes remains open: licensing webOS to other other, phone/tablet device sticking webOS (HP has already made plans to put it in the printers and cars). Until further notice, however, this is essentially dead in the water.

One for webOS devices this evening, my fellow geeks.

Update: If HP output still saving face, here's a way to do it.

Update: HP Stephen Dewitt says, "we are not going from webOS." they will continue their efforts to advance and may license the OS, but his life as we know that it is definitely over.

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