Google's getting political this year; the company is bringing all the drama, dirt, and hyperbole of the Democratic and Republican national conventions directly to you in a series of wonky Google+ hangouts.
Google and the NFL have teamed up to make fantasy football more real for pigskin fanatics everywhere.
Wednesday, in advance of the 2012 football season, the companies announced that they’re adding Google+ hangouts to fantasy football pages. The team-up will …
Well, would you look at that. Google+, the oft-criticized social network from search giant Google, is growing remarkably fast.
Google+ picked up 66 percent more unique visitors between November and June for a total of 110.7 million visitors in June, …
Maker Camp launched on Google today to bring virtual summer camp to kids around the country. The program is sponsored by MAKE magazine and consists of a 30-day curriculum run on the Google + platform.
Every weekday morning, a new …
Google’s gorgeous new iPad app for its Google+ social network is now live in the App Store, the company announced today on its blog.
The company introduced the app for iPad at its recent I/O conference. And it’s a wonderful-looking …
Those little Google +1 buttons you see littered across the web now double as handy indicators that tell you more content you might like — be it apps or articles — is just a click away.
That’s because, Google, as …
The Chrome Web Store will now start dishing out app recommendations based on the apps your Google+ friends have upvoted. Let’s hope your friends aren’t all just closet Angry Birds addicts, right?
Google+ has long been the cornerstone of Google’s …
Google+ is better than Facebook — at mobile.
Google released a tablet version of its mobile application for the Google+ social network at its Google I/O developer conference. And even though Vic Gundotra’s Google+ presentation was the least exciting and …
What a difference a year makes. Instead of insinuating that it was eating Apple for lunch, Google this year sent a message to consumers, developers, and the media at its Google I/O conference this week that its appetite for mobile …
Stop the dadgum presses! Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature that you won’t read about anywhere else.
Called Google+ History, this new API will let you add past statuses, updates, purchases, pictures, and more to …
Google announced some major milestones as well as some fun new toys for its Google+ social network at the Google I/O developer conference today.
Google+ now has more than 250 million total accounts and more than 150 million monthly active …
As Google’s social network service Google+ comes up to its first anniversary, the company is finally ready to launch a native application for its Android OS platform.
“We now have more users engaging with Google+ from mobile than desktop. That’s …
Popular digital magazine app Flipboard is getting some attention from Google in the form of Google+ API support, the company announced today at the Le Web 2012 conference in London.
The support will give Flipboard users access to content streams …
Google surprised a lot of people last fall when it announced that it was buying restaurant ratings company Zagat. Now, Google is finally making some moves with the buy via Google+ Local, an overhaul of Google’s local search.
With the …
Google has updated its Google+ app for Android with beautiful new flourishes and the ability to start a video chat Hangout on the go, the company announced today.
The app update makes a lot of sense in light of Google+’s …
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Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As a social network competing with Facebook it’s a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Now photo sharing is poised to be the service’s next breakout hit, thanks …
Channeling the design aesthetic of today’s hit mobile app makers, Google has released a bold, new version of its Google+ iPhone application that’s a beauty to behold.
“We’re embracing the sensor-rich smartphone (with its touchable screen and high-density display), and …
Another day, another improvement for Google+, the circle social network from Google — except today’s Google+ update might actually have you spending less time on the social site.
Starting Tuesday, Google+ is getting more fully integrated with Gmail, meaning that …
Google’s Hangouts group video-chat on Google+ continues to be the social network’s most compelling feature. Today, Google is opening up the Hangouts On Air feature to all users, allowing them to broadcast their video chat sessions for the world to …
Google is trying really hard to get people interested in Google+’s group video-chat feature, Hangouts. The company has brought on celebrities, political figures, and is now trying to attract its own Silicon Valley neighbors to participate on the social network …
