Today, Facebook officially launched “Facebook for Every Phone”, a downloadable native mobile app compatible with 2500 different feature phones. The app is a rebranding and improvement on the “Facebook for Feature Phones” app Facebook built with Snaptu before it acquired that company in March. The app brings a smartphone-like experience to less advanced handsets, and includes [...]

The 2011 Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey released today showed that 55.3% of companies now use Facebook for recruiting, up just 0.7% since 2010. This indicates that the recent proliferation of social recruiting tools has not changed perceptions of the purpose of Facebook or led to a significant increase in recruiting there — or, at least [...]

Companies on our list of hires this week brought on project and community managers, sales associates, interns and engineers. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into next week’s post. Also, please note that information about [...]

Katango is a simple mobile group messaging app built on technology with huge potential. The first Kleiner Perkins sFund investment, Katango’s debut is an eponymous iPhone app that lets users send email, private Facebook wall posts and in-app messages to lists of friend that it automatically that it automatically assembles. It’s this last part that’s [...]

After a botched first attempt at social that caused some users to become logged into the wrong accounts, Hulu has relaunched its Facebook integration. It allows users to post timed comments and syndicate them to Facebook, and see what friends are watching and commenting on while browsing programs or a special Hulu news feed. Hulu [...]

Documents detailing an upcoming change to Facebook Pages and Places have been found by our German sister site, AllFacebook.de . We’ve now confirmed with Facebook that this week it will launch a limited private test of tools permitting a new parent-child management structure for Places that will allow corporations to administrate all the Places pages [...]

Brands on our post this week used livestreaming, social commerce and photo contests to attract users and customers during the slow summer months. We’ve excerpted two of the campaigns below. You can see the full week’s coverage in the Facebook Marketing Bible, which also includes detailed breakdowns of dozens of other featured campaigns by top-performing brands and [...]

Photos, Page tabs and videos made a big splash on our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. But there were also dating, mobile and horoscope apps. The apps on our list gained the most MAU of any apps, growing from between 462,800 and 3.6 million MAU, based on [...]

Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: New Releases, News, & Sports Show Growth Transformers: Dark of the Moon Rolls Out on iOS Tapjoy Raises $30 Million [...]

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Zen Entertainment, SponsorPay, Pontiflex, Dynamic Signal, King.com, Tagged and PopCap Games. Social Media Director Social Media Director Internet Marketing Director Product Marketing Director Director Publisher Relations Europe (m/f) [...]