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Google Improves Google+ iPhone App

By Jane Gracielo, on September 27th, 2011%

Google has enhanced the iPhone application its own social network, Google+. The Google+ iPhone App now has features that are recently revealed on the social network website.

The improved Google+ app now allows you or let you join a “Hangout”, it is a new videoconferencing service in which people can chat with others within their circles. Though it’s possible to join an existing Hangout through the iPhone application, you still need to open your Google+ account in your personal computer to start a new Hangout videoconference.

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Skype Purchases GroupMe

By Jane Gracielo, on August 22nd, 2011%

As Skype waits for its $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft to go through, it is been indulging in a small shopping of its own.

Yesterday it was announced that it is to take over GroupMe, which gives a mobile group messaging service that can assist Skype competitor Google+’s Huddle feature, FacebookMessages or iMessage of Apple.

GroupMe was founded just last year, allows users to make conference calls and free text messages with different circles of friends or coworkers, from a single contact to a broadcast over Twitter of Facebook.

Its app is . . . → Read More: Skype Purchases GroupMe