Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president of engineering, revealed the deal as part of a pair of announcements in a Google+ post. In addition to the Nik deal, Gundotra revealed the latest Google+ usage figures.
Google reps who have spoken at various events about Google+, including Larry Page, Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, have always seemed confident. Google plans to submit applications for several generic top-level domains (gTLDs) before the April...
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice-President, Social, Google, says, “We didn’t expect over 100,000,000 people to join Google+ so quickly. Guy Kawasaki has a new ebook that you should check out. It’s called "What the Plus!
Ads with a social annotation are seeing a 5 to 10 percent lift in click-through rate, according to Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president for engineering. We have been in this business for a long time, and there are very few things that give you a 5...
We heard from Google’s Vic Gundotra at the Web 2.0 Summit, and again from Bradley Horowitz on Bloomberg, that people will eventually participate in Google+ because they are already there. The reaction to Google+ Pages is mixed, with critics...
When asked for specifics on user engagement and sharing activity by Bloomberg's Emily Chang, Horowitz dodged and weaved like a champ, giving us the same type of tap dance we saw from Vic Gundotra in his recent Web 2.0 Summit interview with John...
Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit to speak with John Battelle in a candid half-hour interview on all things Google. Brin said he had “argued vigorously” with Gundotra and the Google+ team about their relationships and...
While Vic Gundotra, SVP of Engineering at Google, specifies that searches will still work just fine without hashtags, the tags are now more integrated with search results: Adding a hashtag will make the word link to a Google+ search on the topic.
Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra, who heads up Google+, simply wrote, “Rest in peace, Steve. Steve Jobs, Apple cofounder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer.
Google’s strict policies resulted in accounts being banned without warning and forced Vic Gundotra to defend Google’s stance – Google later decided to give users four days warning before a suspension.
On June 28, Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering, said on the Official Google Blog, “Whether it’s inside a pub or on a front porch, human beings have always enjoyed hanging out. YouTube has added a new option when you click the share...
Vic Gundotra, Google's VP of Social, discussed the company's decision on enforcing real names for users. That's why Robert Scoble, a tech blogger who discussed the matter with Gundotra, concluded that Google wasn't "fair or smart in how they spun...
The issue lasted about an hour and 20 minutes, according to Vic Gundotra, Google's VP of Social. Gundotra explained that "we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Google+, which has been in field trial mode since...
We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way," Google's head of social Vic Gundotra announced last night at 11:45 p.m.Interestingly, as people started to get invites and use the service, they used Twitter in many cases to communicate...
Speaking to its two project managers – Bradley Horowitz and Vic Gundotra - the focus seemed to be about the increased information this project provides to advertisers. Gundotra and Mr. As Gundotra admits to Wired, this was a bet-the-company project.
Previously we reported the promotions of Andy Rubin (mobile); Vic Gundotra (social); Sundar Pichai (Chrome); Salar Kamangar (YouTube and video); Alan Eustace (search); and Susan Wojcicki (ads), but a seventh promotion emerged Friday.
Vic Gundotra to senior vice president of social CEO Larry Page's week began with the resignation of Jonathan Rosenberg and is ending with a big change to the structure of Google's management. Six executives last night were promoted to senior vice...
Google's VP of Strategy Vic Gundotra has been an outspoken advocate of HTML 5, most recently seen at Google's I/O conference in San Francisco. I usually turn away from any "killer" claims, as they're often just link bait.
Google Code Jam is an incredible opportunity for the most talented computer scientists in the world to come together and compete on an international stage," said Vic Gundotra, Vice President, Engineering in a statement.
Vic Gundotra has a non-compete that will not allow him to work for Google for at least one year. A 15 year veteran, general manager for platform evangelism at Microsoft, Vic Gundotra, has left Microsoft to join Google.
