First, teams within Google will submit a business plan and apply to join Area 120. If successful, the teams will get to work full-time on t...

Google's admitting defeat for its original goal of using Google+ to give users one identity across all of its services.

Google has spent the last several months chopping up Google Plus's most useful pieces and making them separate services as it moves away.

Users did not appreciate being forced to create profiles to use various Google products, particularly on YouTube,