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?
Google Analytics Launches New Mobile App Analytics: Google Analytics has “a new set of reports in beta called Mobile App Analytics that help marketers and developers better measure their mobile apps.”

YouTube's Google+ Integration Makes it Easy to Change Outdated YouTube Usernames: Did you choose a cute username for your YouTube account and now you want to change it? YouTube users can now use their Google+ profile name for their YouTube channels without any impact on their YouTube channel.

Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
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Google+ Platform Extending to Mobile: Google+ announces “an offering for mobile developers—the Google+ platform for mobile, in early developer preview.”

Twitter and LinkedIn Break Up: “LinkedIn and Twitter announced an end to their partnership that allowed users to sync updates from the two sites.”
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IBM CEO Study 2012: Here's an excerpt of the infographic created with the results of this study.

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