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Facebook Answers Google+ Hangouts With Skype Calling

One has to appreciate the timing of Facebook unveiling a group chat application one week after Google+ launches a social network to not-so-subtly compete...

Google+ Killer App Is User Engagement

What is Google+ killer application?Is it Circles, the friending mechanism that lets users bucket their contacts in gradual, careful curation rather than Facebook's firehose...

Google+ and the Search for Greater Social Intelligence

Rocky Agrawal, guest-writing for TechCrunch, does a good job discussing the signal-to-noise ratios underpinning social networks like Facebook, Twitter and especially Google+, where users...

Google+ Forefather Paul Adams Works at Facebook

The programmer responsible for laying the foundation for Google+ -- particularly the complex Circles method of social graphing -- now works for Facebook. This recalls...

Google Chromebooks Paired With Free WiFi on Virgin America Flights

Google is taking to the skies to market notebook computers based on its Chrome Operating System, the lightweight platform designed to tout Web applications...

Google+ Invites Halted Due to ‘Insane Demand’: Gundotra

Sorry, I have no more Google+ invites today. And neither does anyone else, according to Google+ co-creator Vic Gundotra, who posted this message on...

Google+ Is Like Facebook and Yet Different

There are lot of things flying around right now regarding the Google+ social network the company rolled out to invitees only June 28.With all...

Why the FTC’s Case Against Google Has No Merit

Now that the Federal Trade Commission is making like it's putting the screws to Google, the inevitable comparisons between the Justice Department's antitrust case...

Google’s Strategy to Be Everything to Everyone = FAIL

Do you fear Google has its ladle in too many drinking wells online, so much so that it had diluted the company's quality? Are...

Google’s Schmidt Predictably Bullish on NFC Tap and Pay

It's no surprise that a Google executive would be pounding the tablet for tap-and-pay mobile payment solutions powered by near-field communications. The company one...