Kittyhawk — Larry Page's air taxi startup — is shutting down

Larry Page's Kittyhawk is abandoning its air taxi dreams. The Palo Alto company, launched 12 years ago with backing from the billionaire co-founder of Google LLC, announced in a brief LinkedIn post it was shutting down. It didn't offer any explanation for the decision. "We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk," the startup said in the post. "We're still working on the details of what’s next." Representatives of the company, legally Kitty Hawk Corp., did not immediately respond to a…