Posts Tagged ‘week’

Yahoo, greeting cards, dating, Tetris, YouTube, Shufflr, more on this week’s top 15 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Yahoo topped our list of growing Facebook applications by daily active users this week, although there were a significant number of greeting card applications, a pair of dating apps, a few games, a YouTube for pages app, photos and more. The titles below grew between 240,000 and 9 million DAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook. Top Gainers This Week Name DAU Gain Gain,% 1.

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Yahoo, greeting cards, dating, Tetris, YouTube, Shufflr, more on this week’s top 15 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Yahoo topped our list of growing Facebook applications by daily active users this week, although there were a significant number of greeting card applications, a pair of dating apps, a few games, a YouTube for pages app, photos and more. The titles below grew between 240,000 and 9 million DAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook.

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Facebook Roundup: fellowship, Africa, shareholders, Windows Phone, more

Facebook announces 2012 fellows  - Facebook announced  12 picks for its Fellowship Program this week. The company had about 300 applicants for the positions which include a year’s worth of tuition, a $30,000 stipend, $5,000 for travel and $2,500 for a computer. Fellows have specialties including mobile computing, computer networking and cloud computing, machine learning, storage systems, search, distributed systems, programming language technology, computer security, programming languages, computer security, distributed data storage and programming languages and computer security

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Spotify, Yahoo, Pinterest, games, cards, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Spotify topped our list of applications growing by daily active users this week. Other popular apps included Open Graph integrations from Pinterest, Yahoo, Grooveshark and Bing. Then there were games, cards, horoscopes, friend quizzes and a tab app.

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Hidden Chronicles, Tetris, birthdays, tabs, WashPo, Pinterest, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU

Games were a big hit on our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week.

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Tabs, Heineken, Yahoo, games, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

A number of Tab Builder page applications saw tremendous growth this week and dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users. Heineken, Yahoo, a sweepstakes app and games also made the list. The apps grew from between 240,000 and 880,000 MAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook

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Greeting cards, Zynga, Washington Post, birthdays, more on this week’s top 15 growing Facebook apps by DAU

Greeting card applications and a number of games dominated our list of apps growing by daily active users this week. Washington Post’s Social Reader, an iPad app, birthdays and tab applications made the list. The titles below grew between 178,000 and 560,000 DAU, based on AppData , our data tracking service covering growth for apps on Facebook

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Tabs, Windows, Shufflr, Phrases, Identified, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Tabs, tabs, tabs dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week.

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Facebook hires and departures: data centers, engineering, legal, interns, more

Facebook seems to have eliminated many of its university intern positions this week. Many of the jobs were listed in early December and more than a dozen of the positions disappeared this week

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Facebook groups get Timeline-like cover photos

Some Facebook groups now have cover photos, making them more consistent with the new Timeline design. The default image is a collage of the group members’ profile photos, which link to individual profiles. The image is slightly transparent, but colors are restored when a user hovers over it. We’ve heard that any member has the option to change the cover photo, though we haven’t been able to test this ourselves

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