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In the last few months, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his company public, got married and scored a nearly $ 6 million home loan at just over 1%. What could possibly top all that? How about approval of his very first patent request from way back in 2006 …
Source: MARK ZUCKERBERG OR FACEBOOK – Bing News

Facebook hired a number of technology partners and analysts this week, based on job listings removed from its Careers page. The company also appeared to hire a principal of global small business growth in Hyderabad and a client partner in Singapore.

As we covered earlier today, Facebook also hired Acyrlic founder Dustin MacDonald for its design team.

Prior listings now removed from the Facebook Careers Page:

  • Data Engineer
  • Technology Partner, HR
  • Technology Partner, Security
  • Technology Partner, Sales & Marketing Partnerships
  • Technology Partner, Supply Chain/Logistics
  • Operations Analyst
  • Principal, Global SMB Growth (Hyderabad)
  • Analyst, Platform Operations, Spanish/Portuguese (Dublin)
  • Associate, Platform Operations
  • Client Partner, India (Singapore)
  • Pricing and Yield Management Analyst (London)

Who else is hiring? The Inside Network Job Board presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry.


Source: Inside Facebook

You can’t blame Mark Zuckerberg for getting a great deal on his new mortgage. But wealth experts say the Facebook co-founder’s loan – at just 1.05% – is symptomatic of a new credit gap in America between the haves and have-nots. While the …
Source: MARK ZUCKERBERG OR FACEBOOK – Bing News

Facebook added a number of interesting new job listings to its recently redesigned careers page this week, including a natural language processing engineer and a privacy program manager, among others.

The natural language processing engineer job calls for a candidate to help the social network build products that support idiomatic user input and expression in more than 70 languages, for products such as Open Graph, News Feed and search.

The privacy program manager listing says the candidate will work with product managers and privacy stakeholders to consider the appropriate privacy decisions for each product.

Posts added this week on Facebook’s Careers Page:

  • Natural Language Processing Engineer (Menlo Park)
  • Privacy Program Manager (Menlo Park)
  • Global Fixed Assets Manager (Menlo Park)
  • Product Specialist, User Operations (Palo Alto – Menlo Park)
  • Human Resources Operations Specialist – Contract (Hyderabad)
  • Quantitative UEX Researcher (Menlo Park)
  • Marketing Manager (Hamburg)
  • SMB Analyst, French (Dublin)
  • Manager, Account Management, Mobile/Finance (New York)
  • Media Solutions (Austin) (Austin)
  • Media Solutions (Menlo Park) (Menlo Park)
  • Media Solutions, Swedish (Dublin) (Dublin)
  • Client Partner, Entertainment (Los Angeles) (Los Angeles)

Who else is hiring? The Inside Network Job Board presents a survey of current openings at leading companies in the industry.


Source: Inside Facebook

Topping our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week was Custom Tab | Arrow #3, a page tab application builder from Woobox. The rest of our list was made up mostly of games, though sports social reader GiveMeFootball and social networking app Path

We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew from between 120,000 and 390,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

Top Gainers This Week

Name MAU Gain Gain %
1.  Custom Tab | Arrow #3 900,000 +390,000  + 76%
2.  Disney’s Ghosts of Mistwood 920,000 +370,000  + 84%
3.  Jewel Kingdom 980,000 +370,000  + 61%
4.  Subway Surfers 900,000 +300,000  + 50%
5.  TDP4 Team Battle 410,000 +200,000  + 95%
6.  Panda Jam 860,000 +180,000  + 30%
7.  www-bing-int1.com 400,000 +170,000  + 74%
8.  Tab Builder: Like 590,000 +170,000  + 40%
9.  The Fan Machine 670,000 +170,000  + 34%
10.  Hollywood Slots 510,000 +150,000  + 42%
11.  Static HTML… [Tenth Tab] 560,000 +150,000  + 37%
12.  Ruby Blast 650,000 +150,000  + 35%
13.  Botkin’s Hidden Cove 830,000 +150,000  + 22%
14.  GiveMeFootball 890,000 +150,000  + 20%
15.  Lost Legacies 220,000 +140,000  + 175%
16.  Crazy Penguin Wars 610,000 +140,000  + 30%
17.  Path 680,000 +140,000  + 26%
18.  Custom Tab | Arrow #2 950,000 +140,000  + 17%
19.  Winner Super Slots 410,000 +130,000  + 46%
20.  WhoSay 280,000 +120,000  + 87%

 

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned next week for our look at the top weekly gainers by monthly active users on Monday.


Source: Inside Facebook

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is giving new meaning to the term “the one per cent.” The Facebook founder refinanced a $ 5.95-million mortgage on his Palo Alto, California, home with a 30-year adjustable-rate loan starting at 1.05%, according to …
Source: MARK ZUCKERBERG OR FACEBOOK – Bing News

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