{"id":650926,"date":"2013-04-05T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=416809"},"modified":"2013-04-05T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:02:09","slug":"google-uses-facebook-home-announcement-to-plug-other-google-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650926","title":{"rendered":"Google uses Facebook Home announcement to plug other Google services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/google-facebook-home-response-416809\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/facebook-home-2.png?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Facebook Home\" title=\"Facebook Home\" \/><\/a><\/center>Whether or not\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) is actually happy that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=fb\">FB<\/a>) has just <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/facebook-home-android-announcement-415060\/\">launched software intended to take over Android home screens<\/a> is certainly up for debate. But the company is doing its best to put on a happy face following the announcement, and it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/04\/04\/google-responds-to-facebook-home-with-hugs-and-kisses\/\">tells <em>VentureBeat<\/em><\/a> that Facebook Home &#8220;demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has made Android so popular.&#8221; That said, Google couldn&#8217;t resist nudging its own services into the conversation by saying that Home is &#8220;a win for users who want a customized Facebook experience from Google Play \u2014 the heart of the Android ecosystem \u2014 along with their favorite Google services like Gmail, Search, and Google Maps.&#8221; In other words, Google is sending a gentle reminder to potential Facebook Home fans that their phones will still have plenty of Google services for them to use even if they choose <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/facebook-android-home-screen-software-403378\/\">to clog up their home screens with status updates<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rHfFTpJfFQM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not\u00a0Google (GOOG) is actually happy that Facebook (FB) has just launched software intended to take over Android home screens is certainly up for debate. But the company is doing its best to put on a happy face following the announcement, and it\u00a0tells VentureBeat that Facebook Home &#8220;demonstrates the openness and flexibility that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}