In under a month after Facebook took over the popular facial recognition technology service, Face.com, the social media giant – Facebook has now decided to kill the entire service by closing down its facial recognition APIs in the next 30 days. Although the company assured to continue supporting the developer community, it now appears to be a white lie after this unexpected announcement.

The much rumor acquisition of Face.com by Facebook has been confirmed by Face.com on their blog. Face.com offers facial recognition technology which is already in use at Facebook for auto-tag suggestions when users upload photos to Facebook.

Facebook is working on yet another acquisition, reports Techcrunch. This time, it is planning to acquire Face.com for $100 million.