Google recently announced the imminent July 1 retirement of Google Reader, arguably the world’s most popular RSS reader, because of the decline in usage. But thousands of petitioners beg to differ, as they go online with a signature campaign to save the service.
The company has now decided to close a total of 70 features as part of its “spring cleaning” under the helm of CEO and co-founder Larry Page.
The chief executive, who took the seat from current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, …

Google has announced its second spring of cleaning under CEO and co-founder Larry Page. And it sadly includes RSS feed organizer Google Reader.
The rapid change rate in Google products and services is unprecedented for the company, wrote Google Fellow and SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle as he unveiled the bad news in a post on the company’s official blog.
He said changes in the computing environment, with almost everyone owning at least one device, triggered the company to …

According to the Independent, 300 million active monthly users is a huge milestone achieved by Facebook over a span of six years. However, it took Google+ less than 18 months to achieve the same feat. Even small and medium-sized businesses are benefiting from Google+, such as BakeSpace, Inc., which is a network for exchanging

Google will roll out changes to profiles and pages on Google+, according to Google+ product manager Sara McKinley.
First, users can now read recommendations and reviews from friends with one click. Google+ now has a new tab for local reviews, along with the current tabs for +1′s, photos, and YouTube videos. For example, members of the social network can show their favorite dining areas through the local reviews tab or just hide it.

Second, Google+ now has a simpler way to edit personal …

All Google account owners can now sign-in across multiple platforms and carry their personal information on Google+ through any app on Android, iOS, or the web. 
How? Well, Google recently added a new feature called Google+ Sign-In on its social network.
The search giant said its first release will focus on four important pillars: simplicity and security, tight integration between web and mobile apps, social spam filters, and sharing interactive multimedia posts.
Google+ Sign-In allows a user …

The newest winners of the Breakthrough Prize, organized by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, Google CEO Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, and Yuri Milner, an entrepreneur, can do anything with the 3 million dollars they won. So far, this is the biggest cash prize given to biological science

In what a Canadian judge calls a change that should be taken to reflect our current society, arrested suspects should be allowed to look for a lawyer on Google.
Judge H.A. Lamoureux of the Provincial Court of Alberta said in a ruling that internet access should be provided by the police to accused persons in order for them to exercise their right to access a lawyer.
In a ruling for the case of a certain Christopher McKay, the judge said that the world is “at an unprecedented time in human …

You can now export and download your Blogger data and Google+ pages through Google Takeout.
The move was announced by Google’s Kári Ragnarsson, a member of the company’s Data Liberation Front, in a post on the group’s blog.
Google Takeout is a Google-built tool that lets users download their data from Google products and services.
Accordig to Ragnarsson, this latest development caters to users of Blogger or Google+ account owners who want to control their data more.
By visiting …

According to a recent GlobalWebIndex report on Q4 2012, Google+ has been found to be the second most actively used social network online. It has surpassed Twitter, but is behind Facebook, which is still in the number one spot. Still, the second place ranking is bound to catch the attention of marketers who seek to rank high in search

The Google+ app for iOS-running devices including the iPhone and the iPad is now officially available in 48 new countries and territories.
The availability was announced by Google’s Vic Gundotra appropriately through his Google+ profile.
The countries and territories where the Google+ iOS app is now available are:

Albania
Grenada
Papua New Guinea

Anguilla
Guinea-Bissau
Saint Lucia

Barbados
Guyana
Seychelles

Benin
Kyrgyzstan
Sierra Leone

Bermuda
Lao People’s Democratic …