In fact, the new Gifts is built upon, and run by, the folks at Karma, the gift-giving service Facebook acquired in May.

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Would you stop all dealings with him or would you simply restrict him from coming over to your house for dinner, however you and he could still hang out at the Karma Lounge or the Capital Grill.

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As Karma cofounder Lee Linden told me when I interviewed him at South By Southwest last year, Karma had built the back-end infrastructure for e-commerce operations.

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In his year on the site, Keller became a fairly influential redditor, collecting more than 176, 000 link karma and, at one time, ranking in the top 30 among all users on a site that sees 35 million unique visitors a month.

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The Karma bus drives a circular route, stopping at the bank along the way.

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So some people might be surprised at my latest venture: retrofitting the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma with a powerful internal combustion engine.

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At one end of a field in the mist-shrouded countryside near Thimpu, Karma Dhendup is lining up a distant target, 140 metres away.

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Gaal assured that the Karma hotspot uses the same type of Internet safeguards found in any open wifi at cafes and airports.

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