Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, discussed the decision to shut down the project at a May conference.
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After seeing a therapist for 7 months, I finally made the hard decision to shut down the company.
He added that the decision to shut down the business came after discussions with suppliers "around their support for ongoing trading", which was not forthcoming.
Critics complain that no one makes anything in Silicon Valley anymore, a two-decade-long gripe that arcs from Apple s decision to shut down its Fremont, California factory in 1992 through Intel s shuttering of its last Silicon Valley chip-fabrication plant in 2009.
While Google, which opened its first China office in 2005, shut down many functions there following its decision to stop censoring search results, it says it never abandoned the country.
It is always easier to let an investigation languish or drift than to shut it down, and making the hard decision to cut one short frequently does not come with any immediate or obvious professional advantage.
But Democrats said the decision should force Starr to shut down his lengthy investigation.
And if the Republicans in Congress have made a decision that they want to shut down the government in order to get their way then they have the votes at least in the House of Representatives, probably, to do that.
Eventually, the committee reduced its demand to focus on documents involving decision-making after the administration shut down the Fast and Furious program.
The decision to remove the messages comes soon after Twitter shut down an account used by a German neo-Nazi group based in Hanover.
The Supreme Court decision could set free the dream of personalized medicine or shut it down.
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