Facebook is shuttering its virtual goods store after three years in business as the company tightens its focus on building out an online payments system for third party companies to sell virtual items. “Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts,&#…

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