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bid farewell to the days when you could buy wine on facebook I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update facebook will stop pushing you to buy physical gifts for your friends the social networks gift store no longer will carry things like teddy bears flowers wine clothing cupcakes and cookies rather now it'll only sell digital gift cards facebook says that since it launched gifts in december of last year eighty percent of the purchases have been gift cards and this new gift store is rolling out to users this week remember that when you give someone a gift card on facebook it goes on this plastic facebook card that is mailed to the person yahoo is releasing its abandoned usernames to new owners since yahoo has been around for so long many good names have been taken but many old names were not being used so for anyone that didn't touch their accounts in over a year yahoo released the count names many people already rushed to see if they could claim their first and last names and superman and batman were also popular requests but if you are hunting for a name that's currently taken you can pay yahoo two dollars to get notified when a desired user name becomes available in the next three years and when it opens up yahoo will give you two weeks to claim it samsung and sony are dropping the price of their 4k televisions to about 4k that is to say four thousand dollars according to new reports the 55 inch models of Samsung and Sony's 4k ultra high-def resolution televisions both start at four grand and the 65 inch models are both 5500 dollars if you don't know what I'm talking about 4k resolution is the equivalent of four 1080p screens in height and length if you're planning on selling your old iPhone to grab the new model next month now is the time to grab a buyback price quote from gazelle the site will give you a quote on a used iphone but you don't have to ship it back until october 15th so you can hang on to the phone until you get your new one which is expected to launch later in September this 50 day guarantee is only good if you request a quote by September 10th that's when Apple will likely announce the new model it's good to get a price quote early because sites like gazelle and next worth will offer less money when we get closer to a new iphone launch as of Monday the two-year-old 4s model with 16 gigs of storage in good condition could be sold for 215 dollars typically waiting until the new phone arrives get you half that sites like gazelle make it easy to get cash for your phone but if you're willing to sell it on eBay you could make much more money there's also rumors that apple will begin buying back old iPhones when you buy a new one that your tech news update for more details head to cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey