Facebook to stop group buying services Facebookdeals

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time, August 27 morning, Facebook announced today, after 4 months of testing, will stop the operation of group buying service Facebook Deals.　　On April 25, Facebook began testing the group buying service in five cities in the United States for Facebook Deals, competing with Groupon and LivingSocial. "After 4 months of testing the Facebook deals, we decided to close the Facebook deals service in the next few weeks," Facebook said in a statement. We believe that people have many different ways to buy local business.　　We have learned a lot from this test and we will continue to evaluate how best to serve the local business. Long ago, Facebook planned to launch a competition with Groupon and LivingSocial. Users can either use the credit card to participate in the group purchase, or directly with the Facebook credits virtual currency. Before that, Facebook credits could only be used to buy game props and some digital products. (New Tie)