Wednesday night, we jumped at a tweet from the unofficial but official-looking @GooglePlusTweet account that read "Google+ is now open to anyone with a Google account." But when we investigated ...

Update, April 2, 2019 (02:39 PM ET): As detailed in the schedule below, today was the final day of Google’s beleaguered social network Google+. As of publishing this update, Google+ is ...

Google+ had few users, which in this case worked to its advantage. What is Google doing now? The company announced in a blog that it will be “sunsetting” Google+ for consumers and instead ...

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Google+ was a "controversial" product inside Google, according to this person. But that's not too uncommon within Google, since it's a large company with many employees.

Following the revelation of a security vulnerability that exposed the private data of up to 500,000 Google+ users, Google is finally ready to pull the plug on the consumer version of its troubled ...

The demise of Google+ is a cautionary tale of rivalry, missed opportunity, and of course, drunk geeks waltzing. (...I’ll explain.) As an active user of Google+ and casual clairvoyant of Google ...

Most Google+ fans I know don’t mourn its closure as much as they mourn the loss of Google+ circa 2014. Imagine a social network where geeks have higher follower counts than celebrities. Where ...

Can Google+ offer a service that Facebook does not? While you wait for the chance to see for yourself, take a look at this slideshow to learn how Facebook and Google+ compare.

This was to be the core differentiator between Google+ (then codenamed Emerald Sea) and Facebook. As part of induction into Emerald Sea, my team got the 30-minute pitch from the Circles team.

Google has officially started the process of shutting down and deleting all consumer accounts on its Google+ social network platform, bringing an end to the company’s attempt to directly compete ...

Between 2015 and 2018, Google+ had a similar bug, which Google announced in October. It prompted the company to plan to shut down the social network in August 2019.