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Google has opened up Google + for all the field trials for 12 weeks and has launched a raft of features to challenge the dominance of social media Facebook.
Google + Open To Public

A man working on the Google logo at a booth at the CeBIT computer exhibition in Hanover, February 28, 2011.

Google + Web has attracted a heavy freight, the online social network of the most frightening densest in the world, Facebook, which has a user base of more than 750 million.

Google + after graduating from the field test to beta, social networking has emerged with nine improvements, which include Hangouts and enhanced search.

Hangout Google is a business tool that allows 10 people at a time to hold meetings for free in the same browser-based video chat session. With Hangout On Air, users can broadcast and record their session. Google also adds screen sharing, sketch for a group picture called Hangouts Hangouts to create the public on certain topics and the ability to make Google Docs from Hangouts. + Google allows users to access Hangouts on the phone on Android 2.3 + and the company promised to immediately bring up the IOS device.

Facebook has not been business-oriented, even with the launch of video calling Skype-partner. Facebook video chat free to come only when you chat one-to-one. To chat in groups, Skype additional charge.

+ Google has a search capability to let users search and find interesting topics, posts and other information from the Web. By typing what the user is looking at the Google search bar, he can see the relevant search results. Getting publicity for posting becomes easier with the Google + search engine optimization to improve rankings in Google search, search marketing ads with keywords to drive traffic and advertising solutions ranging from AdSense to DoubleClick. Google’s overall integration of all services made easier with Google +.

“Can you start to see / imagine what Google did for Gmail +? Picassa?? Youtube? Not to mention the quest? +1 System which is now Google have control (such as Facebook Likes) that can actually affect and change the nature of their search,” MySpace founder Tom Anderson said.

With the launch of Google +, Google has formed a network that is more advanced than in Facebook with the concept of “Circle,” which lets the user make a post which can be accessed by a circle of contacts that they choose. When compared with Facebook, Google + has a personal platform that makes  available only to friends.

Platinum Equity was established around 1995 by Tom Gores as a private investment firm. He is a billionaire investor who runs Platinum Equity as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Financial Officer of the investment firm is Mary Ann Sigler. Platinum Equity has also Partners and Principals which leads the team. Platinum Equity has created a business establishment in Los Angeles and has some offices placed in Boston, New York and London.

Platinum Equity is now considered as one of America’s important private companies. Since the establishment of Platinum Equity it grew into a large company within four years. Presently, they have reached almost 100 acquisitions and have earned combined annual revenue of $27.5 billion. Some of their company portfolio includes vast ranges of industry from telecommunications, Logistics and Distribution, Manufacturing, Media and Communications, IT Services and Software, Industrial to Real estate. Platinum Equity is trusted by different companies such as Altura Communication Solutions, Americatel, DCA Services, Matrix Business Technologies, MegaPath, Vanguard Networks, Ulticom, DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services, Alliance Entertainment, The San Diego Union-Tribune, U.S. Robotics, Pomeroy IT Solutions, PEAK Technologies, Canvas Systems, Ryerson, Data2Logistics, International Offshore Services, SDI, Wheel Pros and KEMET Corporation among others.

Platinum Equity through the years has also garnered numerous recognitions among different publications. It occupied the twenty-seventh spot in 2009’s Forbes list of America’s Largest Private companies. It also landed the top spot on the 2009 Los Angeles Business Journal list as one of Los Angeles Largest Private Companies.