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Google+ Threatens Facebook, China and Google: True or False?

Google+ Has Privacy Advantages Over Facebook
Google+, Google's ambitious project to redefine the future of social media, has created a huge buzz. Google+ has posed threat to different groups in numerous ways - it has attacked boldly on the present social network king Facebook, while China allegedly blocked the access to Google+ with its great firewall, and Google's unpreparedness to face the massive influx of traffic has forced the beta version of Google+ to close its invitation door.
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Google+ Invites Selling on eBay for $20

Frankly, we shouldn't really be surprised by the news. Google's hot release Google+ is currently adding people only through invites, which means the unlucky ones who haven't got an invite are facing a difficult situation. A section is giving away their Gmail IDs in Twitter and random forums hoping that some gracious people would drop a Google+ invite, only to learn that spammers did pick up their Gmail IDs, instead of that gracious Google+ guy. Can you really blame the Google+ h...
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Six Reasons Why Google+ Could Prove a 'Facebook Killer'

Google launched its social networking service called Google+ in its latest attempt to break into the social networking realm. After the failure of Google Buzz and Wave to garner public support, there's now a belief that the company may finally have figured out how to go social.
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Famous Authors Today on Twitter

In this new feature, IBTimes Books provides a handy roundup of what authors are saying out there in the Twitterverse. Today, Margaret Atwood is working away on the third Madd Addam book, and Paulo Coelho is warning about attacks by mediocres.
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Victoria's Secret Supermodel Anja Rubik: World's Most In-Demand Model

Gisele Bundchen currently holds the title of Forbes Most Powerful Model, raking in over $250 million this decade. However, Gisele may have a worthy opponent - Poland born model Anja Rubik. Anja now holds the title of Most in - demand model of the fashion industry, based on a poll that factored models' visibility in campaigns, Google searches and Twitter followers. Rubik's appeal is self-explantory once you see her in photographs.Rubik is currently the face of Fendi,...
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China Blocks Google+ as Fear of Social Networks Persists

China quickly blocked Google's newest offering Google+, a service that promises a better social networking experience than Facebook's. The Google+ service was not available to Chinese users, New York's Daily News said, citing sources.
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Rumor Reloaded: What are Apple's iPhone 5 Features?

There are conflicting reports about iPhone 5’s release date. However, a whole lot of possible iPhone 5 features have been revealed through several sources, image leaks and estimates by analysts and industry experts. Following is detailed look at what your spanking new iPhone 5 will look and feel like when it hits shelves in September, as some experts say, or sometime in 2012:
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Cold-blooded Internet censorship: Why is China afraid of Google+?

China apparently lost no time denying its people access to yet another western social networking service. Hours after search giant Google unveiled ambitious social networking service Google+, the Chinese government got the service blocked in the country, according to media reports.

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