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House Party, Dark Sky, Loon.

A few members of the TC team put together a list of the products, projects and tech companies

that shut down or announced plans to shut down this year.

Fry's electronics gets an honorable mention because, though it was hardly a startup,

its shutdown leaves a massive pyramid-shaped hole in the hearts of many who grew up wandering its

aisles.

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