Google scaled back support for an internal startup incubator designed to kick-start product development. The unit known as Area 120 told roughly half of its more than 100 employees this week they no longer would receive support for their projects and would need to find jobs elsewhere at the company. Google is contending with a weakening online ad market as it looks for areas to trim costs following a slowdown in advertising sales growth. Area 120 was started by Sundar Pichai in 2016 and will no longer receive support from the incubator, two people with knowledge of the decision say. The decision comes as Google struggles with a slowing online ad sales growth in recent years and is looking for ways to trim its costs and to find a way of cutting costs. The . . .
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