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So say Google's critics about a company which, lets face it, is only 14 years old. We know what they're like; trying to grow up quickly, but really still a kid at heart. And that pretty much sums up the company's week as it keeps trying to please users while trying to obey the grown-ups.

For those fed up of skipping between social sites, RockMelt offers all your social activity front-and-center in a highly customizable browser environment. Check out the latest beta with more sharing, interactivity and smarter information displays.

Twitter is acquiring social news aggregation service Summify. Summify is thrilled at the news. Unfortunately, Summify users are not. 

Adobe this week completed its much-anticipated acquisition of Efficient Frontier, expanding its Digital Marketing Suite to include multi-channel ad buying and optimization capabilities.

With all the fuss about tomorrow's Apple education-themed event, its easy to forget that the company's next big launch isn't that far off. Reports suggest that the iPad 3's launch profile could match or beat that of the iPad 2 last year, as Apple aims to stay ahead of Samsung.

It seems odd that Microsoft has the hottest smartphone of the moment but doesn't have a Skype app for it, despite having paid billions for the company. That will change, "soon," as the Windows Phone bandwagon starts to really roll.

If your website has the Facebook Comments Box plugin, the plugin will now appear automatically on mobile devices, too.

Google announced several new features to its search service yesterday that leverage information from your Google+ social identity to deliver what it hopes will be more personalized and contextually accurate results. Google is calling it Search plus Your World: vocal opponents are calling it bull cheating.

Eat your heart out, Twitter and Facebook. It seems that brands engaging their audience online might achieve better conversion rates through internet marketing and word-of-mouth efforts than social networks.

The 2011 National Business Ethics Survey results show a rise in the influence of social networkers and a workplace divide between employees who spend substantial time on social networks and their non-networking colleagues.

Nimble, Flotype and Lithium Technologies kicked off 2012 with funding ranging from US$ 1 million up to US$ 53.4 million.

Do you have a social media marketing plan for 2012? Will it differ from your 2011 efforts? Results from a recent social media marketing survey show that marketers are planning to invest heavily in social media marketing in 2012, but they are still grappling with getting sufficient resources and ROI.

Google+ is a ghost town. Google+ is dying. Google+ is dead. You read it on the Internet, so it must be true, right?

In 2011, social media marketing not only was a sum of its individual parts, but also a force to be reckoned with as far as social business initiatives were concerned. Let’s take a stroll down social media marketing lane, shall we?

The fPrivacy Chrome extension gives users more control by disallowing specific app permissions.

Where where you this time, last year? That and other questions can be solved a little easier thanks to Facebook's new Timeline feature which is now part of the upgraded iPhone app.

It was only 5 or 6 years ago that Twitter and Facebook were introduced, but for some, the endless connectivity has already become burdensome. For those looking for a way to streamline their social media feeds, Bottlenose has introduced a smarter way to “surf the stream.”

Facebook is offering website owners and authors more ways to help their readers discover, curate and share content. With Facebook's latest Subscribe button for websites, users can subscribe to their favorite authors straight from within their respective websites.

With consumers logging into social media sites across the world — writing on walls, liking, interacting and influencing like never before — the face of marketing, buying and selling as we knew it has been transformed.

Android users have millions of apps to enjoy, but there's still some envy for iOS's best-in-class products. Another of those pins will fall down soon, with the upcoming release of mega-popular photo app Instagram while a faster updated Facebook app is out now.