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Google’s stock price passes $800 for the 1st time

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [5]

Google's stock has just passed $800 for the first time. The technology juggernaut has many services that it can thank for that. There's its monopolizing search engine, its variety of services like Gmail and YouTube, and of course its extremely popular Android operating system. Google has made some very great decisions within the last few years that brought it to its great milestone today. However, things didn't always look so bright for the company. Read The Full Story

Google Takeout now offers more support for Blogger and Google+

, Feb 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google Takeout now offers more support for those of you with a Blogger account and/or a Google+ page. Now through the Google Takeout service, you can export information contained inside of your Blogger account as well as information in your Google+ Stream or Google+ Circles. The Takeout feature is provided by The Data Liberation Front, a Google engineering team in charge of making it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. Read The Full Story

President Obama to host “Fireside Hangout” after State of the Union

, Feb 11th 2013 Discuss [1]

Tomorrow President Obama will be delivering the nation's 200th State of the Union, and will be addressing the country during a joint session of Congress in the nation's capital. However, the President will also be hosting a Google+ "Fireside Hangout" two days later on Thursday, February 14 at 4:50 pm ET to answer your questions. Read The Full Story

NASA to host first ISS Google+ Hangout on February 22

, Feb 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

In what will be the first-ever Google+ Hangout to beam to the ISS, NASA will be hosting such an event on February 22, where astronauts Kevin Ford, Tom Marshburn, and Chris Hadfield will be answering your questions from 11 am ET to noon ET. The team will answer questions that are both pre-recorded, as well as live questions from social media sites. Read The Full Story

Google+ Hangouts get “bandwidth slider” to battle Skype

, Feb 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

The team behind the Google+ video chat environment "Hangouts" has updated the system this week to work with internet connection speeds of all varieties. To attach to those that normally wouldn't be able to keep up with a video chat interface (be it Hangouts, Skype, or otherwise), the Google developers working with Hangouts have revealed two new features: a Bandwidth Slider and "Audio-Only mode." This means Google+ is ready to do not just video chat, but phone calls as well - almost as if Google Voice has come to visit! Read The Full Story

Google+ becomes the second most popular social network behind Facebook

, Jan 27th 2013 Discuss [14]

Move over Twitter, because according to Trendstream's Global Web Index for Q4 2012, Google+ has managed to move into the second-place spot for social platforms. This puts it behind Facebook (although by a significant amount of users), with YouTube also managing to top Twitter. Now Twitter is in fourth place in terms of total active users, at least according to Trendstream's collected data. Read The Full Story

Vice President Biden to discuss gun violence in Google+ Hangout tomorrow

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Due to the recent shootings in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut, the topic of gun violence and gun control has reached an all-time high. Many lawmakers are blaming violent video games as the culprit, while others think that we just need stricter gun control policies. Vice President Joe Biden will be addressing these kinds of concerns tomorrow during a Google+ Hangout at 1:45 PM ET. Read The Full Story

Google updates its jobs board to include Google+ integration

, Jan 22nd 2013 Discuss [1]

Hoping to work for Google? Finding a job with the search engine giant just got easier, as it has integrated Google+ support into its company jobs board. Users can now use their Google+ profile to narrow down searches, find more relevant results, and mark listings for later perusal. Those who don't already have a Google+ profile can make one to speed up the job search process. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 14, 2012

, Dec 14th 2012 Discuss [1]

Welcome to Friday evening everyone. The weekend will be underway soon, but before we jump in, let's recap the news from the afternoon. We found out today that Google Maps on iOS might not be around for very long, so enjoy it while it lasts, while Motorola Atrix HD users are now getting a long-awaited update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Google is leaving Sync support in the dust starting on January 30, 2013, and there were launch events for the iPhone 5 in 33 different countries today. Read The Full Story

Google+ for Android updates with full-size image uploads, improved Hangouts, and more

, Dec 14th 2012 Discuss [3]

A ton of new features have arrived on the Google+ app for Android. To celebrate "Season for Shipping", Google decided to roll out several new and useful features for their social network service, especially for Android users. Google says a total of 24 new "treats" have come to Google+ in this update, which should be beneficial for a lot of users this holiday season. Read The Full Story

Google: 235m active Google+ users

, Dec 6th 2012 Discuss [19]

Google+ is "the fastest-growing network thingy ever" Google's Vic Gundotra has claimed, with 235m active users on the social network. The latest batch of activity stats comes as Google launches Google+ Communities, its challenge to Facebook Groups and other online discussion boards, though the 235m figure doesn't mean that every one of those users are regularly hitting up the Google+ site. Read The Full Story

Google+ Communities turns social upstart into discussion hub

, Dec 6th 2012 Discuss [3]

Google has revealed its answer to Facebook Groups, Google+ Communities, a way for like-minded souls to create hubs of discussion and media on any topic they're interested in. Hitting all Google+ accounts today, Communities works as a topic-specific discussion board, with support for various sub-topics branching off from that, and with a choice of privacy settings to control whether anybody can participate, or if it's locked down. Read The Full Story
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