The Bill That Could Make or Break Our Economy + MORE

The Bill That Could Make or Break Our Economy + MORE

Facebook careers: platform hires, intellectual property, logistics and moreFacebook has removed 18 job listings from its careers page appearing to have made hires in for localization project managers and other miscellaneous positions.
Listings removed from Facebook’s careers page:

Partner Manager, Preferred Marketing Developer Program (Menlo Park)
Localization Project Manager (Contract) (Menlo Park)
Localization Project Manager (Menlo Park)
Product Manager (Menlo Park)
Administrative Assistant, Mobile Partner Management (Menlo Park)
Logistics Program Manager, Asset Management (Menlo Park)
Partner Manager, Preferred Marketing Developer Program (Menlo Park)
Data Analyst, Latin America (São Paulo)
User and Client Support Analyst, Latin America – Spanish Speaker (São Paulo)
Intellectual Property Analyst, User Operations, German (Dublin)
Intellectual Property Associate, User Operations (Menlo Park)
Agency Partner, Russian (Warsaw) (Warsaw)
Administrative Assistant (Contract) (Singapore)
Account Manager, Global Marketing Solutions (Gaming) (Menlo Park)
Client Partner, Finance (New York)
Performance (Direct Response) Sales Trainer (Menlo Park)
Data Analyst, Content Operations (Menlo Park)
Analyst, Vertical Measurement – Financial Services / Automotive (Menlo Park)

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The Bill That Could Make or Break Our Economy

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The Bill That Could Make or Break Our EconomyEditor’s Note: Mashable supports the call for smart, comprehensive immigration reform to attract and keep the best and brightest to fuel innovation and American jobs. Read more about Mashable’s stance as a company on immigration policy.
Comprehensive immigration reform will have a positive impact on all Americans…

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Facebook Director of Product Management Doug Purdy discusses Parse, Mobile App Install AdsIn his fireside chat at Inside Social Apps today, Facebook Director of Product Management Doug Purdy discussed about mobile app discovery difficulties faced by developers. He discussed how developers can use the platform to drive app installations through mobile app install ads.
Since first launching last October, mobile app install ads have started to be used by more than 3,800 developers…

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Facebook reveals ad unit improvements, will phase out Questions and Offers productsFacebook has announced plans of streamlining its ad products by simplifying its offerings. From these changes, users will see a more standard set of ads, as the social network intends to reduce its 27 different ad units to less than half of that in the next six months.
In efforts to improve the ad creation process, Facebook plans on changing the way advertisers reach users…

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Twitter Approves 11 More Certified Products, Bringing The Total To 33
Twitter launched its Certified Products program last August with the goal of bringing “some of the most innovative products and services from Twitter developers to businesses and organizations that need them most.”
The certified badge is basically a stamp of approval from Twitter for an app or platform that symbolizes compliance with Twitter guidelines…

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Mobile messaging service LINE opens new office in Taiwan to help grow its international userbaseLINE, a cross-platform mobile messaging app with more than 160 million registered users, is doubling its efforts in Taiwan by opening a new office and kicking off a fresh recruitment drive in the region.
Cindy Park, Manager of LINE Business Office, was quoted at a promotional event in Taipei by Focus Taiwan: “We have come here to tell Taiwanese users…that we will do our best to meet all users’ needs…

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The growth of mobile devices, smartphones, and social networking services have forever changed the way we take photos. Today, we continuously snap pictures, pausing only to selectively share the best to our network of friends, family and followers on sites like Facebook and Instagram. Today, a new photo-sharing startup called Piccolo is launching into beta with a service that aims to make photo printing easier, by offering a tool that works alongside our current behavior rather than trying to change it…

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Do you use Twitter for business? Are you wondering how to use Twitter to increase traffic to your blog? To learn how to use Twitter to grow your business, I interview Kim Garst for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from […

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Facebook careers: Parse, consumer communications, finance manager and more.Facebook has added 49 positions to its careers page including a number of positions on Parse, which it acquired late last April. Parse is a cloud-based platform providing tools for app developers.
When Facebook purchased it, the social network bought the company outright, meaning that it would continue operating its service…

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The Ability to Edit Facebook Posts Is Now Being Tested
Some Facebook members are now able to edit the posts they’ve shared on the social network. Although the ability to edit comments has been around for nearly a year, this marks the first time you’d be able to tweak the original post.
An AllFacebook reader discovered the new-ish functionality, which was displayed in a public post made by Facebook’s Nick Schrock…

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Amazon launches Storyteller to turn scripts into storyboards — automagically

July 9-10, 2013
San Francisco, CA

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Upload your script, choose some backgrounds, and magically created a professional-looking storyboard of your movie. Or the graphic novel version of your text-based anything.
Amazon Studios released Storyteller today to allow writers and filmmakers to quickly, easily — and cheaply — storyboard their scripts…

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Turn Your Social Media Obsession Into a Career [Infographic]Social media marketers may be the only people on the planet who are allowed to have their Facebook pages open at work. As more companies latch on to social media as a marketing or customer service tool, the job market for professionals with social skills is expected to grow between 13 and 24 percent through 2018…

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