Google Currents (social app)

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Google Currents
Other namesGoogle+ for G Suite
Developer(s) Google
Initial release28 June 2011
Platform Android, iOS, Web app
Successor Spaces in Google Chat
License Proprietary
Website Google Currents' Introduction & Features at the Wayback Machine (archived 2022-01-04)

Google Currents was a software application developed by Google for internal enterprise communication. [1] [2] It is one of many products that constitute the Google Workspace line of products. [3]

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Google Currents was different from the also defunct Google app of the same name, which provided users with access to an electronic library of magazines from 2011 to 2013. [4] [5] It was replaced by the Spaces feature in Google Chat in March 2023. Google announced shutting down for business and education on July 5, 2023. [6]

History and development

Originally called Google+ for G Suite, Currents was, up until its closure in 2023, the sole remnant of Google's defunct social network Google+, which the company shut down entirely for personal and brand use on April 2, 2019. [7] [8]

In June 2020, Google Currents was in Public Beta for Google Workspace clients. A free trial could also be requested. [9] [10] [11]

On February 10, 2022, Google announced that it would be planning to "wind down" Google Currents and transition its users to the Spaces feature in Google Chat the next year. [12]

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References

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