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Google+ has seen dramatic growth since its launch, pulling in 20 million unique visitors within a month of its launch. But it faces several key challenges before it could become the dominant force in social media.

Gartner reports handset sales rose 13 percent year-over-year and the growth of smartphones is the reason why.

Google+ is seeing unparalleled growth, reaching broad audiences faster than any other digital property in history, but it remains to be seen whether Google can keep users coming back to its latest social foray.

Alexander Calder, arguably one of the most celebrated sculpture of the 20th century was the inspiration behind Friday's Google Doodle.

To celebrate artist Alexander Calder's 113th birthday, today's Google doodle is an interactive mobile and Google's first doodle made entirely using HTML5 canvas.

In the U.S. alone, more than 5-million visitors have gone on Google+.

Google Doodle is a celebration of Alexander Calder and HTML5.

Both Oracle Corp and Google Inc have taken unreasonable positions on the scale of damages involved in a high stakes patent battle over the Android operating system, a U.S. judge said in court.

Both Oracle Corp and Google Inc have taken unreasonable positions on the scale of damages involved in a high stakes patent battle over the Android operating system, a U.S. judge said in court.

In a sign of corporate maturity, Google is shutting the doors to its Google Labs innovation hub, and focusing its efforts onto core products, the company says.

Google Inc boosted its spending to lobby the U.S. government by 54 percent in the second quarter, as the world's No.1 Internet search engine faces an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.

Google announced on Thursday that the Google toolbar will not be supported on Firefox 5 and all newer Mozilla browsers.

Ford made waves in creating the first company Google+ page, but don't expect its Google+ page to be exactly the same as its Facebook page.

Google's announcement on Wednesday to wind down Google Labs, the breeding ground for many of Google's most brilliant tools, raised questions for the future of innovation in Google and stirred up some unrest among Google's hard-core users.

Google+ launched the Android app before it launched the iPhone app, yet the iPhone G+ app has quickly jumped to the top of Apple's Free Apps list.

The frenzy with the launch of Google has slowed down in the past couple of days compared to 2 million users joining every day in the last one week, suggests an analysis by Paul Allen, co-founder of Ancestry.com.

Google Inc is introducing a credit card for its advertising customers, offering its clients a credit line to try and drum up business as competition in the online ad market heats up.

Nokia fell to a loss in the second quarter as it faces tough competition from Apple and Google's Android-powered smartphones, and recorded a restructuring charge. However, excluding one-time items, it managed to beat analysts' expectations.

The latest statistic on the number of Google+ users indicates it surpassed 18 million, and continues to grow.

Now a study coming out of Africa is saying that lions are most likely to eat human beings following a full moon.

Google Inc will shut down a website that offered public access to experimental products, the latest step by the company to refocus resources under Chief Executive Larry Page.

Michael Lee Johnson, whose Google+ (or Google Plus) ad was banned by Facebook last week, has responded by deleting his Facebook profile.

Google+ reportedly has now attracted 18-million users only three weeks after the social media network was introduced.

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) string of outage woes continues with another outage on Tuesday.

Nokia is scheduled to report its second-quarter results on July 21 before the market opens.

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.

Google's Gmail is the preferred E-mail domain for professionals.

Ford Motor Company was one of several companies that got a jump start on Google+ by hacking its own brand page. Google liked what Ford did, and is about to launch test pages for companies and small business.

The Google+ iPhone application has finally been approved and is ready to download for free from the iTunes App Store.