At Tuesday’s L.A. Tech Summit, IBD was able to catch up with Aydin Senkut, Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google’s first product manager who has since started his own venture capital firm, Felicis Ventures. Senkut spoke about two of the VC’s most notable investments, Fitbit (FIT) and Shopify (SHOP), as well as what he looks for when making an investment and how his time at Google has shaped his career. Follow Alissa Williams on
Google+, the long-suffering social network of Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned Google, has decided to focus on connecting users by common interests, rather than through user-to-user connections Google+ long ago lost its battle with Facebook (FB), not to mention Twitter (TWTR), LinkedIn (LNKD) and newer upstarts like Snapchat. The effort to manufacture a social network — making Google+ a hub to Google services, or factoring Google+ in search results —
On Sunday, Microsoft Corp. ( MSFT ) launched a fund for startups with plans to bring internet access to the approximately four billion people who currently lack it. For two months, the company will accept applications from companies with two or more full-time employees, a working prototype and, ideally, paying