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Google+ the search engine giant’s answer to challenge Facebook’s social media hegemony is finally here.

Google+ has received its first major privacy complaint.

Switching social networking platforms online can be a cumbersome process, from building friends' list to getting acquainted with a new interface. There is an easy way to do this. Once you have signed up for Google+, install the free Stylish extension available for Chrome or Firefox browsers.

Google’s new social networking site Google+ will take a long time to catch up with Facebook, which has a following of 750 million active users.

When PC giant Hewlett-Packard spent $1.2 billion to buy Palm Inc. in July 2010, everyone was wondering what HP would do with Palm's critically-acclaimed operating system WebOS.

Google Inc. launched its most aggressive social network effort Google+, which looks remarkably similar to Facebook in terms of aesthetics and could pose as a threat to Facebook's dominance. Will Facebook counter this with 'Facebook+' next week?

Apple Inc and Research In Motion are part of a winning consortium of six companies buying bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp's remaining patent portfolio for $4.5 billion, in a hotly contested auction that saw Google and Intel lose out.

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...

Apple's closest competitor at the moment is the Android App Market which has nearly 220,000 apps.

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.

Facebook, the world's biggest social networking Web site, plans to launch something awesome next week. Speculation is growing that the upcoming announcement may be a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple's iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone. Facebook has not yet introduced an iPad app.

Insane Demand Shuts Google+ Invites, but are there loopholes?

Buzz is growing around Google's new social network, Google+. You want to come to the party? Sorry, you'll need an invite.

Google's controlled release of Google+ is called into question by one analyst.

Social network is preparing to launch something great according to its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

Recent numbers from Nielsen may be suggesting Google's Android isn't growing at same pace it once was.

Google Inc can be sued for allegedly violating federal wiretap law in a lawsuit over the data collection methods of its Street View cars, a judge has ruled.

Google Inc stopped inviting users to join its new social network less than 48 hours after beginning a limited rollout of the service.

Google's overwhelmed by the demand of its invitations for Google+ but the company may be making a mistake in doing a controlled release in the first place.

Here's what likely happens next with Google's field trial of its Google+ social media program.

Google Inc can be sued for allegedly violating federal wiretap law in a lawsuit over the data collection methods of its Street View cars, a judge has ruled.

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.

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.

A careful analysis of past comments by Apple executives and reports by research firms reveals some features that will not be showcased in the upcoming iPhone 5.

News Corp made the right move selling MySpace, the social media site. Some say MySpace had become 'sleazy.'

The first day rush to join Google+ was described insane by Google. We've shut down invite mechanism for the night. Insane demand, Google's head of social Vic Gundotra announced on the service. Was it just the curiosity? Maybe not. Google's timing for introducing a fresh experience in online social networking is impeccable.

Is Cisco set to enter a tablet market dominated by Apple?

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS) sold Myspace to ad network Specific Media for $35 million, a far cry from its 2007 valuation of $12 billion, and the $100 million News Corp was expecting from the sale.

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.