Google didn't shut down Reader because use declined or couldn't monetize it, it was to help Google+ fight Facebook
July 3 2013, 1:56pm
Google didn't shut down Reader because use declined or couldn't monetize it, it was to help Google+ fight Facebook http://t.co/3jw2dYCOvC
— Mitchell McKenna (@MitchellMcKenna) July 3, 2013
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