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

Former Twitter Chief Scientist Abdur Chowdhoury is working on a new, super-stealthy project called Pushd . Details are scarce, but here’s what we know: According to an SEC filing , he’s teamed up with Summize co-founder Eric Jensen and the two have raised $1.35 million for the venture, which is based in New York City

Palo Alto Networks  shares climbed 26% in its first day of trading today on the New York Stock Exchange.  Shares closed at $53, up from its $42 offering price.The company offered 6.3 million shares in trading

I wrote last week that GitHub is the Library of Alexandria of code .

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.

As lovers of technology and slaves to the news cycle, we all get caught up in the next new thing.

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.

Earlier today online fashion store Celeb Boutique tweeted the above in what just may be the most disturbing incident of insensitivity following last night’s tragic shooting in Aurora, Colo. But they weren’t the only ones. The National Rifle Association, apparently unaware of the news, posted this colossally ignorant tweet this morning, “Good morning, shooters

There is a lot of talk in the San Francisco Bay Area about the difficulty tech companies are having when it comes to hiring the highly-skilled people they need to grow. But it turns out that the talent crunch isn’t just an issue here in Silicon Valley — it’s a problem that they’re feeling literally on the other side of the globe, in Israel. So it was interesting to have the opportunity to chat about this and much more with Michael Eisenberg , a general partner at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital who helps lead the firm’s Israel operations

Here’s a little something to get the ol’ rumor mill churning before the weekend — Samsung has just sent out a save-the-date email for a “major” product announcement on August 15. Samsung goes on to say that the company will unveil its “newest GALAXY device,” though exactly what that’s going to be is left infuriatingly vague.