{"id":175769,"date":"2016-08-12T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175769"},"modified":"2016-08-12T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:50:53","slug":"google-play-drops-google-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175769-google-play-drops-google-integration.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Play drops Google+ integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has dropped the need to have a Google+ account to vote and leave reviews\u00a0on apps in the Google Play store, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2016\/08\/11\/google-profiles-may-not-needed-post-play-store-reviews-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Android Police reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The +1 button has also disappeared from Google Play, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Google announced it had removed Google+ from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube was the first service\u00a0to have its Google+\u00a0integration removed, with the search giant promising that &#8220;in the coming months, a Google Account will be all you\u2019ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel, and more&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Google said that changes\u00a0would happen in stages over several\u00a0months.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/174720-google-to-test-delivery-drones.html\"><strong>Google to test delivery drones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/174452-new-launcher-for-next-google-nexus-phones-leaked.html\"><strong>New launcher for next Google Nexus phones leaked<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/174310-catch-the-olympics-2016-action-with-google.html\"><strong>Catch the Olympics 2016 action with Google<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/172017-googles-new-emoji.html\"><strong>Google\u2019s new emoji<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google+ is being de-integrated from the Google Play store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,10100,2812,2150],"class_list":["post-175769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-google-plus","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175771,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175769\/revisions\/175771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}