Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only Facebook employee using Google’s new social offering, Google+. At least 62 Facebook employees have signed up for the competing social service, according to an unofficial list compiled by Huffington Post Senior Editor Craig Kanalley.
“Why …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:
Oops: Microsoft accidentally reveals secret social project — Microsoft is working on a social/design project called Tulalip, according …
Google+, the social network Google launched three weeks ago, is off to a much stronger start than the company’s failed Wave and Buzz offerings, according to a Google Trend comparison of the services built from an analysis of search trends.…
Despite many reports to the contrary, about 33.6 percent of Google+’s total user base is female, according to new research by unofficial Google+ statistician and founder of Ancestry.com Paul Allen.
Allen, who earlier in the week accurately predicted that Google+ …
Only two weeks after launch, Google+ boasts 10 million users, making it one of the fastest-growing social networks ever. Additionally, people are using Google+ to share content over 1 billion times a day.
These facts emerged from Google’s second-quarter earnings …
Google plans to accelerate the launch of its corporate account program on Google+ after thousands of businesses signed up to try the fast-growing social network.
“To the thousands upon thousands of businesses that applied to be a part: Thank you!,” …
Google’s mobile payment strategy is just getting started, but that doesn’t faze Stephanie Tilenius, the company’s vice president of commerce.
“There’s going to be a ton of innovation in mobile payments,” Tilenius said Tuesday at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference in …
Google+, the new social network from Google, will reach 10 million users today, according to a rather unorthodox study conducted by Paul Allen of Ancestry.com.
The study is based on U.S. Census data about surname-popularity (the popularity of a person’s …
Google’s popular email product Gmail is about to get much more social.
The company is forging ahead with plans to add a social layer to Gmail by adding integration with its new social service, Google+, according to Gmail engineering manager …
Bill Gross, the founder and CEO of the business incubator Idealab, as well as the Twitter app company Ubermedia, has high hopes for Google+.
“I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service …
Many Google+ users saw a massive amount of notification email messages from the service this afternoon, and now Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, has an explanation.
“For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:
Google resumes sending out Google+ invites: Google+, Google’s brand-new social networking site, will once again let users invite …
Businesses should hold off on creating a profile on Google’s new social service Google+ and instead wait for an upcoming business version of the service, according to Google+ Ads Lead Christian Oestlien.
Business owners can hypothetically create a listing on …
Google+, Google’s brand-new social networking site, will once again let users invite their friends to join them on the site, Google’s senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said.
Google closed invitations for its social networking site due to “insane …
New evidence suggests that Google is planning a full roll out of Google+, its new social service currently in beta testing, to Google Apps customers with the public launch of Google+ later this month. A Google OS reader reports accidentally …
Google will delete all private profiles on July 31st in a move that aims to add more users to its new Google+ service. Anyone who wants to try Google+ will now need a public profile.
Google+, the company’s latest social …
Google says it will eventually open up the group video chat in Google+ to third parties.
That means anyone will be able to utilize the group chat, called Hangouts, in their apps or services, according to Google Realtime Communications lead …
Google is planning to rebrand its blogging platform Blogger and photo service Picasa with names that identify them as Google products, reports Mashable.
Google intends to rename Picasa “Google Photos” and rename Blogger “Google Blogs,” according to unnamed sources in …
Facebook has blocked a popular extension for Google’s Chrome web browser that allows users to export their Facebook contacts.
The open-source extension, Facebook Friend Exporter, lets users grab all the information about their Facebook friends, which can then be imported …
Wasting no time whatsoever, Google has submitted a Google+ iPhone app to the App Store and is now awaiting approval by Apple, Google technician Erica Joy revealed today. Google+ is the company’s new social network platform, launched at the end …
