As Google shifts its social focus to Google+, there doesn’t seem to be room for some of the company's older social efforts—even the very expensive ones.
AllThingsD reported yesterday that Google is shutting down Slide, the social apps company it bought just last year for $182 million. Its founder, Max Levchin, who became Google’s vice president of engineering after the acquisition, is also leaving the company. Levchin had previously co-founded PayPal and is chairman of the board of Yelp.
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