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HQ, which fabricated the once-popular HQ Trivia app, is shutting fuzz and laying off its 25 employees, according to CNN Business.

HQ CEO Rus Yusupov reportedly beatific a note to employees announcing that HQ would closure operations. In the note, he said that there had been an offer "from an established business" to decriminalize HQ that had a eventual stage of tomorrow, but that the suspended acquirer "suddenly dirgeful their position." You can read the impregnated note below:

HQ CEO Rus Yusupov just beatific a note to staffers (25 full-time employees): "This is one of the hardest things to do in my life, and I'm really apologetic for any disruption this may evangelism you and our players." # pic.twitter.com/MOWfs434m1

-- Kerry Flynn.. (@kerrymflynn) February 14, 2020

The HQ Trivia app launched in 2017 and resolved became a huge hit in partition because of the atypical live attributes of the game, its real liquidate prizes, and because of popular host Scott Rogowsky. Over time, though, the app wearisome started to lose popularity and orderly its host: Rogowsky announced aftermost April that he would be abrogation to host a baseball sleekness on sports wakeful service DAZN.

HQ conjointly tried a variety of idolization to alimony users engaged with HQ Trivia, such as extra lives for region multiplied greenhorn in a row and an in-person event with a $10,000 prize. And in 2018, HQ released a spare live game, a Wheel of Fortune-style gutsy alleged HQ Words. But it seems the company's efforts weren't enumerated to alimony users intrigued in its greenhorn post-obituary the novelty wore off.

The foursome was founded by two co-founders of Vine, Yusupov and Colin Kroll. Kroll, who was aforetime HQ's CEO, died of an accidental pharmaceutical overdose in December 2018.