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Nov 3rd 2013, 14:16, by Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld

Have you been using Google+ lately? If you have, you haven't been alone. According to Google, the number of monthly active users on Google+ jumped from 390 million in May to 540 million users today.

"With 540 million people active across Google each month, 300 million people active in just the stream and more than 1.5 billion photos uploaded every week, the Google+ community is growing faster than we ever could have imagined," wrote Vic Gundotra, a Google senior vice president, in a blog post. "Today's updates are our way of saying 'thank you.' We hope they save you time and help you share your story."

And in that vein, Google announced improvements to Google+ Hangouts and the photo feature that are aimed at making it easier to message, photo edit, and make video calls.

For Hangouts, Google has tried to tweaked the video calling experience, making it full screen across both mobile and desktops and enhancing webcam lighting automatically.

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