Google Fiber 22, 2016, Google Fiber bought Webpass, an Internet service provider that has been in business for 13 years and specializes in high-speed Internet for business and residential customers. They have a large presence in California and specifically the Bay Area as well as San Diego, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Chicago, and Boston. The deal closed in October 2016. Google Fiber provides an Internet connection speed of up to one gigabit per second (1,000 Mbit/s) for both download and upload, which is roughly 100 times faster access than what most Americans have. Google Fiber says its service allows for the
Google+ also announced the shutting down of the unpopular Google+ for consumers. On December 10, 2018, Google announced they would be closing the Google+ service in April 2019 as opposed to the original date of August 2019, due in part, to a security flaw that exposed the personal information of 52.5 million Google+ users in November 2018. Google+ Google+, pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, is an Internet-based social network that is owned and operated by Google. The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics have varied, depending on how