Google Plus manager Vic Gundotra leaves
After eight years, Google Plus manager Vic Gundotra is leaving the online network. He writes this in his farewell post on G+.
Apart from private motivations, Gundotra did not give any other reasons. As Kress.de wrote on Friday, "Financial Times" and "TechCrunch" are said to have learned that Google Plus is undergoing far-reaching restructuring. According to the Financial Times, Google Plus is now to be marketed as a less independent online network. "TechCrunch" writes that Google Plus will be reduced to its platform role. Around 1,000 software developers will be assigned to other areas. For example, the team behind the "Hangouts" video chats will move to the Android operating system.
Apparently, it is not Gundotra's deputy Brad Horowitz who is now to take over the chief executive position, but Dave Besbris, who, like Horowitz, helped build Google+ from the very beginning.
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