Can Google+ emerge as the winner of the so called "social media war?" A clear-cut answer to this question is not possible to give as of now. But one thing, which is very impressive about this new social network, is that it is growing much faster than its rivals like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter.
Good news for hackers, social networking giant Facebook has announced a bug bounty program, in which it will pay hackers for finding and reporting security flaws on its Web site.
The elites of the Google+ exclusive club have tens of thousands of followers now, according to Social Statistics.
Facebook Inc won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss seeking to boost their $65 million settlement with the company and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
Michael Lee Johnson, whose Google+ (or Google Plus) ad was banned by Facebook last week, has responded by deleting his Facebook profile.
It has been just over two weeks since the Google+ social network was launched. While it is still in a beta invite-only period, Google's new social networking platform has created a buzz amassing more than 10 million users. According to recent reports, the most followed person on Google+ is none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
It is simply a matter of time before Google+ replaces Facebook, suggests ForeSee Results Annual E-Business Report for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The E-Business Report covering search engines, Internet news and information services, and social media services has placed Facebook at the bottom of the social media category, just like last year.
Facebook has blocked ads by one of its users promoting Google+. Michael Lee Johnson says he is irritated by the move.
Google's social network has garnered its fair-share of buzz, but the inner workings have been pretty much a secret -- until now.
Google+, Google's latest attempt at Social Networking, became an instant hit with 10 million plus users signing up in only two weeks since its launch on June 28.
World's No.1 social networking site Facebook appears to have finally acknowledged the threat upstart Google+ (or Google Plus) poses, by taking down an offensive Google+ ad from its site.
Spotify's U.S. launch has spawned more competition for Pandora.
Google's social network has garnered its fair share of buzz, but not much has been known about the inner workings of the site and the people on it -- until now.
The top users on Google+ have tens of thousands of followers now, according to Social Statistics, but the Facebook founder is perched atop of even Google founders, and it appears he's happy.
Google continues to wow the world, this time with some real pluses.
In its Q2 earnings announcement, the search engine giant revealed that its revenue grew 30 percent year-on-year in the second quarter to $9.03 billion, according to the company's report released on Thursday. Google+ has gathered 10 million users in its first two weeks of beta test.
After the mega failure of Google Wave and Google Buzz , Google may have hit the bull’s eye with Google+ in social networking ‘circles’ by smartly integrating Facebook and Twitter with a smattering of additional features. But the fact is, it is yet to get into public domain and prove successful there.
A list that tracks the 100 people who have the most followers on Google+ says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed person on Google+ than Google CEO Larry Page.
An unknown number of dogs, cats, birds and other creatures also likely have their own pages on the social network giant.
Spotify launched in the U.S.
Google+, Google's newly launched social network, has strong momentum, but could result in higher marketing spending and limit margin improvement.
Though just a few days old the social network Google+ already connects more than 10 million people as Larry Page of Google announced together with the company results of Q2 2011.
The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's teaming up with Skype to launch the video chat, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature, hosted at facebook.com/videocalling, acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies.
