Google is the best company to work for in 2013, according to Fortune

I guess that's what benefits like paying your spouse for 10 years after your death will do for you.

Shockingly, you can’t just lift photos off Twitter and sell them

Photographer Daniel Morel took riveting photos of the devastation caused by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. So riveting that the Agence France-Presse took them off Twitter and actually uploaded them to Getty Images.

Small business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new graph search

Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again.

Twitter inches closer to media companies with new ‘Twitter TV Book’

In yet another example of how Twitter is positioning itself as media/entertainment platform, the social network released a report today showcasing the tweeting habits of people while watching television in the UK.

Twitter will now use humans, not just machines, to process your search terms

Twitter has just upgraded the machinery behind its search, this time with added real-time human computation!

Christmas 2012 shopping: paper catalogs whipped Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and Amazon is the new Google

I guess we're just not as advanced as we think we are. Or, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The Associated Press starts selling access to its Twitter feed; Samsung is first customer

The Associated Press is running a sponsored tweets campaign. But the news company is not paying Twitter any money, and the sponsored tweets are not the kind of sponsored tweets that we're used to.

Twitter to be a fat cat this year with $11B valuation

After studying the secondary markets, one analyst firm says Twitter is now worth as much as $11 billion or more. It also suspects the company may soon test the IPO waters, if the markets improve.

Extreme product makeovers: The biggest redesigns of 2012

The things these aging apps will do to keep our interest... Here's who went under the knife in 2012 -- and whether it worked.

Social Media Fight Club! Top tiffs from 2012

Instagram v. Twitter! Yahoo v. Google! Can't we all just get along? No. No, we cannot. Besides, it's more amusing this way.

How Washington went social in 2012: the top 10 moments in politics and technology

In 2012, the promise of the social election finally came to fruition. From gaffes and memes to true triumphs, here are Washington's top 10 tech moments.

The top 10 social-media stories that shaped 2012

With outlandish lawsuits, a botched IPO, and a detailed social record of historic world events, 2012 will be remembered as a year of extreme highs and lows in social media. Here are the top 10 social stories that defined the year.

How to take back control of your own social networks

If you don't like the way social networks try to own your data, but you're not willing to sign off completely, there is a third way. Here's how to regain control of your own stuff without giving up Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter exec shakeup: CFO to COO, former Zynga treasurer to CFO

Twitter shook up the top brass a little today, transitioning current Chief Financial Officer Ali Rowghani to the top operating role and naming former Zynga treasurer Mike Gupta as the company's new CFO.