Ever wanted to lead a ball through a maze and learn about Google Maps at the same time? Me too. Google has released its Google Cube game, to be played once and forgotten.
It’s fun to play for novice gamers …
The above picture shows us exactly what it’s like to be grilled by famed interviewer Charlie Rose. It was taken with Google’s Project Glass headset by Sebastian Thrun, the man spearheading Google’s next-gen innovations at Google X, during his interview …
As if Google hasn’t launched enough stuff already today, the company has just announced the Google+ share button.
This new tool can be embedded on your website or blog and will allow you and your visitors to easily share content …
Google+ is an interesting place for photographers to share their art, according to many photogs we’ve spoken with. So it seems fitting that the first Google+ focused conference would be all about photography.
“There is no more vibrant online community …
Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today.
Google+ will also serve as the official social platform for …
Despite multiple reports to the contrary, Google+ is not a ghost town, according to chief executive Larry Page in a statement to investors Thursday.
Page, who’s held the CEO title for one year now, said that the company’s fledgling social …
Google is showing off some new Hangout-themed apps today. From play games and goofing around to getting serious work done, the apps use the Google+ social video tool to make the most of face-to-face, real-time interaction.
New Hangout games include …
Google may be getting ready to launch its own third-party commenting system that will tie into the company’s other services.
According to a report from The Next Web, Google’s commenting system is said to be heavily integrated with its Google+ …
A company that makes 96 percent of its revenue from advertising is becoming a massive media buyer itself — and in a far more traditional sense than one might at first anticipate.
In 2011, Google spent nearly $70 million on …
Google Play is the company’s biggest launch since Google+, and it’s built on some of the same principles.
First, here’s what Google Play is: It’s a web-based system for buying and consuming content, from e-books to music to movies to …
Funzio has had a couple of big hits on Facebook and the iPhone with Crime City and Modern War. But now it is spreading out by launching its new game Kingdom Age as an exclusive on Google+ and taking Crime …
Google's controversial changes to its privacy policy will go into effect tomorrow, even with pushback from European regulators, U.S. Congress, and many U.S. state attorneys general.
The average Google+ user only spends an average of three minutes per month on the social network, while MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter are all seeing more time spent per user each month, according to research firm comScore.
In a scathing …
Google made a brief announcement today stating that Google Voice would be getting Google+ integration.
On the official Google Voice blog, we read that the two services will be linked by bringing information from your social Google+ circles into your …
From posting status updates to consuming news, the collective time Americans spend on Facebook amounts to more than 100,000 years each month.
The eye-popping figure comes by way of statistics portal Statista. The company pulled data from comScore, Compete, and …
Facebook will soon begin rolling out verified accounts for high-profile members with large numbers of subscribers, and it will give verified users the option of a pseudonym for their name.
Verified accounts were first introduced on Twitter in 2009 and …
Slowly, but surely, the Google+ iPhone app is catching up to its more well-equipped Android sibling. Today Google released a new version of the iPhone app that can instantly upload your photos and videos, something the Android app has had …
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“We’ve seen communities ruined by games,” said Google+ engineering director David Glazer to a room full of app developers.
“How do we find that balance between people who are interested in games… without having the problem of more spam?”
Glazer …
The Google+ Platform is still a relatively small collection of read-only APIs, but Google is definitely preparing for a wide and varied set of features for developers.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Thursday, Google+ engineering director …
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Facebook is rolling out its new lightbox photo viewer feature to all 840 million users by the end of this week, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed to VentureBeat. The new display helps make photos more attractive by showing …
