Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week?
Facebook Reveals 78% Of US Users Are Mobile: TechCrunch reports “a new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that donât earn the company as much money.”

Yelp Introduces the Ability to Write and Publish Reviews on Mobile: “Yelpers can now contribute their useful, funny and cool reviews directly from their Yelp mobile application (available today on iOS and coming soon to Android).”

Google+ Adds SoundCloud Embeds: SoundCloud works “together with Google to make it easier than ever to reach your audience by sharing sounds to Google+.”

Pinterest Launches Teachers on Pinterest: Teachers for Pinterest provides “a hub where you'll find everything from lesson plans for different grades to classroom decorating ideas and topics like fun with phonics.”

Google Maps Introduces Ads: Google Maps bring “an updated ad experience [which] is more attractive for users and more effective for advertisers.”

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TweetDeck Rolls Out a New Tweet Panel: TweetDeck creates “a New Tweet panel to make it easier to tweet, send DMs and preview images to share.”

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Flickr Co-Founder Launches Slack: “Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.”

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