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The company has yet to release an official statement about the issue.
This week, Facebook joined the S&P 500 while founder Mark Zuckerberg personally made more shares in the company available for purchase, Google and Facebook battle it out with different year-end roundup services for their users, Twitter will let Vine users get vanity URLs, and it turned out that Instagram's new ads are a success.
Despite privacy concerns, Google is moving forward with a plan to bring Google Plus users' endorsements into its advertising - including displaying their names and profile pictures. Google is calling the ad scheme, "shared endorsements."
It's been a pretty exciting week for social media, Facebook in particular. A day after adding 15-second videos to its Instagram photo sharing service, Facebook admitted that a bug in its system accidentally exposed 6 million users' personal information. Meanwhile, Google Plus might be adding Google Mine, a service to share your stuff.
On Thursday, Wired brought some insight into why Google decided to shut down Google Reader for good on July 1, and it all boils down to this: News consumption habits are shifting. Except perhaps for a small but vocal portion of Google's user-base.
On Tuesday, Google released a new version of its Google+ mobile app for iOS, bringing Apple fans up to speed with Android users, who have had some of these features for about a week now. The newest incarnation of the app, version 4.4.0, is Google's 43rd update for their social networking application. Here's what the new Google+ will look like and feature on your iPhone.
Google has begun a service that allows users to declare what happens to their account data if the accounts reamin inactive for a set period of time.
A Stanford computer science student has begun compiling a list of winners who will receive the Explorer package of the Google Glass.
NASA is inviting 150 of its social media followers on Facebook, Twiter and Google+ to chat live with astronauts on the International Space Station.
La red social del buscador más grande de internet a nivel mundial, Google, google+, sumó un total de 343 millones de usuarios, convirtiéndose en la segunda mayor red social, desplazando a la empresa de microbloggin, Twitter, que registra 200 millones de suscritos.
Google+, the search giant’s proprietary sharing site, has exceeded expectations, surpassing Twitter.
What will it take for App.net to make itself known among the Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus giants?
