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Facebook roundup: stock price and customer satisfaction down, Washington to offer voter registration app, Zuckerberg visits Walmart HQ and more

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT

Facebook stock again below $30 - Amid concerns that Facebook will report lackluster Q2 earnings, the company’s stock closed at $28.76 today. Not even news that Facebook will begin testing search-based ads could bring the share price above $30 where it closed last week. The stock is down more than 6 percent this week and more than 24 percent since Facebook’s initial public offering in May. The company’s earnings call is scheduled for Thursday.

Nasdaq to revise IPO compensation proposal – Nasdaq is expected next week to release a compensation plan for investors who were affected by technical issues during Facebook’s stock market debut. Fox sources say the deal will be all in cash, and likely above the $40 million originally proposed. Nasdaq is continuing to work with the Securities and Exchange Commission on a second draft of the proposal, after its initial plan was met with criticism from investors, who may have lost a combined $200 million or more from the IPO.

Washington state to allow voter registration via Facebook – Washington’s secretary of state’s office said Tuesday it will offer an application on its Facebook page that allows residents to register to vote and then share the story with friends. The app, which is the first of its kind, is expected to launch as early as next week.

Facebook falls in consumer satisfaction – Facebook, already the lowest-scoring e-business company, experienced an even further decline in customer satisfaction, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index. An E-Business Report released in partnership with customer experience analytics firm ForeSee showed Facebook dropped 8 percent to 61 on a 100-point scale, setting a new record-low score for e-business and placing it among the five lowest-scoring companies of the 230 measured by the ACSI. Google+ scored 78 in its first appearance in the ACSI.

Zuckerberg and team looking to foster relationship with Walmart – Facebook’s senior management team, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are scheduled to spend two days at Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, meeting with executives and discussing ways to “deepen” the company’s relationship, according to Reuters. Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg have already shared photos from their visit, which began today.

Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 03:53 PM PDT

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.

Facebook careers: natural language processing, privacy, media solutions, more

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 02:09 PM PDT

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.

Facebook hires: technology partners, analysts, platform operations, growth, more

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 01:51 PM PDT

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.

Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design team

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT

Facebook has hired the team behind Acrylic, a development studio that makes iOS and Mac software, including news reader Pulp and secure database app Wallet.

[Update 7/20/12 1:22 p.m. PT - AllThingsD reports that Acrylic is only one person: designer and engineer Dustin MacDonald.]

The social network did not acquire Acrylic’s products or services, according to a blog post on Acrylic’s website. Acrylic says Wallet and Pulp will remain available for download and purchase in their current form, but the company will not continue with any further development on them.

This is yet another mobile-focused hire for Facebook, which picked up the team behind Spool earlier this week. Other recent acqui-hires include Pieceable Software, Lightbox and Bolt Peters.

Acrylic’s Pulp is a news app for Mac and iPad that allows users to turn news sites into a personalized newspaper with easy-to-scan headlines, previews and photos. Wallet is a personal database app for Mac, iPad and iPhone, where users can store web passwords, software license keys, credit card numbers and other sensitive data. See screenshots of the apps below.

Acrylic designer and engineer Dustin MacDonald said about the move to Facebook:

“Facebook is an invaluable service that we all use daily, and a company I believe is one of the most innovative and important around today. After visiting late last year, I discovered that we shared many of the same core product design goals and principles, and it soon became obvious that it was a natural fit. Simply put, there's an opportunity at Facebook to have a big impact in many people's lives. More importantly, Facebook is full of extremely talented people who will be able to help realize its full potential in the years to come.”

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