Google+ to shut

A report in the Wall Street Journal drove the final nail in Google’s failed experiment with a social network. It has decided to shutter Google+ after the WSJ report claimed that a flaw had exposed the private data of thousands of users. What was worse, claimed the report, that Google had not disclosed this, “in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny.”

Reports: WSJ, Android Central, The Verge, Variety, News Nation, PCMag, Middle East, Vanity Fair, San Diego Union-Tribune, NBC Connecticut