Google separates Photos from Google+, appoints new leadership

Google continues to position its teams to maximize effectiveness of its products. Google+ is one that needs a bit of TLC, and in an effort to pump things up in the near term, Google+ and Photos are being separated into standalone entities with Google’s Photos and Streams products.



As such, Google will leverage advances within its popular communications products (Gmail, Search, etc.), Photos, and Google+ Stream as three distinct projects instead of one, part of a strategy that Sundar Pichai is executing since he heads many of Google’s products.



Product Vice President, Bradley Horowitz ...