A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between July 16 and 21.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, July 16
- Fish Tales evolves into Fantastic Fishies
- Zynga’s David Ko opens up about Zynga’s mobile publishing plans
Tuesday, July 17
- Crickler provides a new take on crosswords
- Autodesk acquires Socialcam for $ 60M
- Kiip raises $ 11 Million in Series B round of funding lead by Relay Ventures
- Appcelerator introduces private cloud services to court bigger developers, enterprise clients
- Diptic, Pyramid Run, Guess the Character! and more on this week’s top free iOS Apps
Wednesday, July 18
- Analytics company Apsalar moves into advertising with ApEngage, now reaches 225 million users
- InMobi confirms MMTG Labs acquisition
- Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, GREE and more
- StartApp passes 150M downloads of its Android-only, bundled search software
- How Miniclip went from web portal to 100M mobile downloads
- Richard Garriott’s Ultimate RPG is spiritual successor to Ultima on mobile and social platforms
- Tiny Wings returns with new 2.0 update
Thursday, July 19
- Pocket raises $ 5M Series B to expand its ‘save for later’ services
- Germany’s Bigpoint closes mobile division, lays off 29
- New hires in mobile: Square, Gameloft and EA PopCap
- Armor Games’ latest challenges players to Follow the Rabbit
- Adfonic: Android overtakes iOS to become most popular platform for mobile advertisers
- Amazing Alex, Tiny Wings, Minecraft and more on this week’s top paid iOS apps
Friday, July 20
- CSR Racing, The Tribez, Fieldrunners 2 and more on this week’s top grossing iOS apps
- Google acquires popular third-party email client Sparrow
- GREE to open Vancouver studio, will focus on innovation, new concepts
- Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design team
- Deity Wars enters the card-battling fray
- Amazing Alex, Shadowgun and more on this week’s Android app charts
- Mobile app news roundup: mobile Mozilla, Apple fixes and Transformers heads to Mobage
Saturday, July 21
- Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Playsino and more
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, July 16
- SimCity Social tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Hotel Casino review
- Zynga’s David Ko opens up about Zynga’s mobile publishing plans
Tuesday, July 17
Wednesday, July 18
- Applifier debuts Facebook-only video ad network for game trailers
- SongPop barely outpaces SimCity Social as this week’s fastest-growing Facebook game by DAU
- Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Playsino and more
- Crazy Penguin Wars review
- Richard Garriott: Mobile and social platforms represent “third grand era of computer games”
Thursday, July 19
- The Sims Social and Zynga Slingo are this week’s gainer and loser among July’s Top 25 Facebook games
- CastleVille lead designer founds new mobile studio, BonusXP
- Birdopolis review
- New hires in social games: Social Point, PlaySpace and Zynga
Friday, July 20
- GameDuell: Cross-platform players monetize 25% more than those on a single platform
- King’s Bounty lords over this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Hollywood Slots review
- Outernauts is now live on Facebook
- Social games news roundup: Zynga, Zynga and more Zynga
Saturday, July 21
- Inside Network Job Board: nWay, 12 Gigs, Big Viking Games and more
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
- Monday, July 16
- Less than 10 percent of traffic to Facebook pages comes from outside Facebook.com
- Facebook hires team behind mobile bookmarking service Spool
- New mobile ‘action links’ allow users to take specific actions in other apps without leaving Facebook
- Facebook creates duplicate page finder tool for admins to report unofficial pages
Tuesday, July 17
- Autodesk acquires No. 1 Facebook app Socialcam for $ 60M
- Extole creates new marketing apps that promote word of mouth using Open Graph
- Facebook brings activity log to mobile devices so users can delete stories and check privacy settings
- Viralheat launches free conversation management and publishing tool to serve small businesses and agencies
- Facebook platform industry hires: Conversocial, FreshBuzz, Nanigans, Shoutlet, TBG Digital and Wildfire
Wednesday, July 18
- Facebook ads in desktop and mobile News Feed outperform Twitter promoted accounts
Thursday, July 19
- Facebook bug leads Lululemon and more pages to post fake offers; other pages can’t create offers at all
- Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed
- ShareThis brings social reader functionality to new sharing widget for publishers
- Xbox, EA Sports, Gamestop, and Lego among others in this week’s most talked about pages in games and toys
- SimCity Social, Spotify, SongPop, TripAdvisor, Instagram and more on this week’s top growing apps by DAU
- Facebook to introduce sponsored results in search typeahead
Friday, July 20
- Facebook adds iOS and Mac development studio Acrylic to design team
- Facebook hires: technology partners, analysts, platform operations, growth, more
- Facebook careers: natural language processing, privacy, media solutions, more
- Custom tabs, Ghosts of Mistwood, Jewel Kingdom, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook roundup: stock price and customer satisfaction down, Washington to offer voter registration app, Zuckerberg visits Walmart HQ and more
Source: Inside Social Games
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between June 18 and 22.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, June 18
- Mutually-assured destruction in WarGames: WOPR for iOS and Android
- Clones, rabid expectations and overhauls — NimbleBit on the development of Pocket Planes
- Flurry reports Windows Phone grew by 521% year-over-year as Microsoft gains steam on mobile
- Microsoft blends PCs and tablets with new Surface devices
- Emerging free iOS apps: Disney, Pocket Planes and Top Gear
Tuesday, June 19
- Playing dress-up with Style Me Girl
- Vungle takes its in-app video trailer service out of beta with a $ 1M developer fund
- Apsalar introduces Campaign Source Insights to measure the real financial performance of mobile app marketing
- Exclusive: Jordan Weisman on free-to-play games, working with Bungie, and his new game Strikefleet Omega
- Emerging top paid iOS apps: Temple Run: Brave, realMyst and Adventure Time
Wednesday, June 20
- Amazon simplifies revenue split from paid apps, drops two-tiered system
- Atari returns to its roots with Centipede Origins
- Microsoft looks to unite desktop, tablet and mobile with Windows Phone 8
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5, King.com, Machine Zone and more
- iOS has China and Google Play has Brazil, but the U.S., the U.K. and Japan are where the money is
- Game Insight gets into mobile publishing, $ 3M to spend this summer
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: Pocket Planes, Bento 4 for iPad and Magic 2013
Thursday, June 21
- Aeria Mobile brings its Japanese card-battle hit Monster Paradise stateside
- NaturalMotion raises $ 11M Series B to become a world leader in mobile gaming
- Chartboost brings on Google’s Kellogg to expand its network
- Android Developers can now respond directly to user reviews on Google Play
- New hires in mobile: AdColony, GREE and TinyCo
- Down on the farm again with Hay Day
- Emerging popular Android apps: GSN Casino, Temple Run: Brave and Jamie’s 20 minute meals
Friday, June 22
- Magic 2013 gets card-battling right
- Remedy: A paid iOS app can earn $ 1M without ever hitting the top 10
- Mobile app news roundup: Unity 4, Wooga drops HTML5 and 32 new iTunes stores
Saturday, June 23
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5, King.com, Machine Zone and more
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, June 18
- Song Pop tops this week’s chart of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Dotfriends review
Tuesday, June 19
- Zynga gets in on the match-3 game with Ruby Blast
- Moonlight Online review
- Facebook reveals game subscriptions with monthly billing
Wednesday, June 20
- Bubble Safari once more on top of this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5, King.com, Machine Zone and more
- Ruby Blast review
- Arkadium study shows ‘social butterflies’ and core gamers spend more on social games
- Game Insight gets into mobile publishing, $ 3M to spend this summer
- Facebook updates payments terms to reflect addition of subscriptions, Credits phase out and more
Thursday, June 21
- Aeria Mobile brings its Japanese card-battle hit Monster Paradise stateside
- Roadhouse Interactive acquires The Embassy Interactive
- Bubble Raider review
- New hires in social gaming: Double Down Interactive, Kabam and Kixeye
- Cie Games’s Justin Choi says good data is key to Facebook game development success
Friday, June 22
- SimCity Social combines city-building, more customization, deeper player relationships
- Facebook Sponsored Stories now appear on Zynga.com
- Foreign language titles top this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Puzzle Chasers review
- Parallel Zombies focuses on cooperative, story-based location gameplay
- Social games news roundup: Turkey’s worth lots of money, Tencent buys into Epic Games and Wooga moves away from HTML5
Saturday, June 23
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5, King.com, Machine Zone and more
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, June 18
- Facebook looking to introduce real-time location-based ads to monetize mobile market
- Facebook acquires facial recognition company Face.com
- Facebook launches portal page to help users follow Olympic Games and athletes
- Bubble Safari, Socialcam, Terra, TripAdvisor, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook lets users know how many interest lists they’re featured on, but still no info for pages
Tuesday, June 19
- A Look at George Takei’s Tactics in Engaging a Social Media Following
- Facebook to launch subscription billing for apps, transition from Credits to local currency
- Early tests show mobile Sponsored Stories have higher CTR, lower CPCs than desktop
- New Facebook platform industry hires: HYFN, Identified, Shoutlet, Syncapse, Wildfire
Wednesday, June 20
- Facebook hides page content from logged-out users
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5, King.com, Machine Zone and more
- Facebook gives Like button functionality to third-party mobile and web app buttons
- Facebook and Yahoo in talks to resolve patent dispute, court filing confirms
- Facebook updates payments terms to reflect addition of subscriptions, Credits phase out and more
Thursday, June 21
- ‘Facebook for Every Phone’ becomes first page to surpass 100M Likes
- Facebook must let users opt out of Sponsored Stories following lawsuit settlement
- Facebook brings cover photo design to ‘hover cards’ that appear when users mouse over page links
- 21 Questions, Daily Horoscope, Song Pop, Embassy Suites, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook hires Apple UI design manager, among two dozen other positions this week
- Facebook career postings: commercial counsel, recruiting, engineering, more
Friday, June 22
- Unilever’s charitable app uses Timeline and subscription billing; Facebook agrees to take only 5 percent of transactions
- First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com
- The best features of the Nike+ Timeline integration and how developers should apply them to their own apps
Source: Inside Social Games
Here’s a convenient spot to find all Inside Mobile Apps’ coverage of Apple’s developer conference in San Francisco this week. This is the first WWDC since the passing of Steve Jobs.
Day one kicked off with a keynote featuring current CEO Tim Cook, VP of Mac Software Engineering Craig Federighi and Senior VP of iOS Software Scott Forstall.
- Apple brings deep Facebook integration to iOS 6
- AirPlay enables Mac-to-iPhone gaming through Game Center
- WWDC 2012: iPad-only apps account for 34% of App Store apps
- WWDC 2012 Keynote iOS6 roundup: Siri for iPad, Smart app banners and more
More as the conference progresses.
Source: Inside Social Games
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between May 8 and June 2.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, May 28
- Dig deep with Glu’s Lil’ Kingdom
Tuesday, May 29
- Fiksu: iOS app download volume down 8% year-on-year, but user acquisition costs rise
- Bug-chomping fun with Glow Bugs
- Urban Airship: incorporating push notifications improved Airbnb’s booking speed 8x
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Palm Reading Booth, Angry Birds Space and Monopoly for iPad
Wednesday, May 30
- Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage
- Catch, breed and feed with Monster Park
- Zooz offers unified solution for PayPal, credit cards and carrier billing
- Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: DragonVale, Dragon Story and Slotomatia
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Activision, King.com, Wooga and more
Thursday, May 31
- Pets in your pocket with Mobbles
- GREE bringing $ 26M-a-month-earning card battle game Driland to North America
- How to double user retention with push notifications: Urban Airship shares best practices
- New hires in mobile: Gloops, NaturalMotion and Tylted
- Emerging popular Android apps: Monster Park, Songify and Rebuild
Friday, June 1
- Rule the high seas with Sid Meier’s Pirates, now for iPhone
- Stomp, roar and burn with Dragon Evolution
- WeottaGo reinvents local with smart data intelligence
- It looks like Zynga’s newest mobile game is Zynga Slots
- Mobile app news roundup: 46 million iOS apps a day, 300 million Fruit Ninjas and 100,000 Angry Birds credit cards
Saturday, June 2
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Mixr, Activision, King.com and more
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Sunday, May 27
- Trip Hawkins steps down as Digital Chocolate CEO, says studio is becoming more “streamlined” as layoffs are reported
Monday, May 28
- myVegas aims to combine real world casinos with virtual resorts and social games
Tuesday, May 29
- Zynga Bingo tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Former Zynga CTO of Mobile Laurent Desegur goes to Game Closure
- RocketFrog review
- You Don’t Know Jack is now live on Facebook
Wednesday, May 30
- Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage
- bwin.party sets aside $ 50 million for social games, creates Win studio
- Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research
- Seaside Hideaway review
- Zynga Bingo scores big, wins this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
Thursday, May 31
- Bubble Witch Saga is both this week’s gainer and loser among May’s Top 25 games
- You Don’t Know Jack review
- New hires in social gaming: TrialPay, Adparlor and GameHouse
Friday, June 1
- Buffalo Studios partners with the Riviera for Bingo Blitz integration, Las Vegas bingo tournament
- Arabic-language “Guerilla” sneaks to the top of this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Baseball Heroes review
- Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012
- Social games news roundup: Kixeye resurrects 3 Blokes, Monster Galaxy expands and Russia gets even bigger
Saturday, June 2
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Wooga, Mixr and more
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Tuesday, May 29
- Socialcam, quizzes, Yahoo, Pinterest, games, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Asking for Open Graph app permissions: Involver shares best practices following success of Ad Meter campaign
- Facebook introduces ‘trending videos’ module in News Feed, redesigns ‘trending articles’ layout
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Buddy Media, Wildfire, Kontagent, Identified, BranchOut
- Facebook shares fall to $ 28.84 on first day of options trading
- Facebook for Every Phone, Snaptu, Facebook Marketing, Kobe Bryant, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
Wednesday, May 30
- Facebook tests button within mobile News Feed to drive users to native Instagram app
- Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research
- Facebook rolls out ‘promote’ button to more U.S. pages, provides details on how it works
- 21 Questions, Socialcam, Shufflr, Zynga, mobile, horoscopes, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook expands mobile Sponsored Stories to include recent post and call to action
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SocialDealer and more
Thursday, May 31
- Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access
- Facebook allows post scheduling directly from pages without third-party tools
- New Facebook guidelines require news and video apps to wait at least 10 seconds before publishing user activity
- Facebook hires: investor relations, engineering, business development, more
- Facebook career postings: data center, engineering, mobile, more
Friday, June 1
- Video, photos, House MD, smileys, Chinese music, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook puts proposed policy changes up to a vote following activist campaign
- Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012
- Complete walkthrough of Facebook’s mobile Pages Manager app
- Facebook roundup: Outages, Apple, HQ, hackers, awards, Ceglia, Bing and more
Saturday, June 2
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Abundance, Warner Bros and more
Source: Inside Social Games
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between October 17th and 22nd.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, October 17th:
- Mobile Gaming Funds Ramp Up: Gamevil Invests in RPG-Maker KNetP
- Emerging Top Paid iOS Apps: Scribblenauts, Oregon Trail, Animoog and Utilities
- Early Traffic Results for HTML5 Part of Facebook’s Mobile Platform Seem Tepid
- With iPhone 4S Sales Topping 4M Over The Weekend, User Acquisition Costs Temporarily Double
- Does Android Need Its Own Version of Game Center?
Tuesday, October 18th:
- Emerging Top Grossing Apps: Many Magazines, Zombies, Sky Gamblers and Scribblenauts
- Facebook Launches HTML5 Resources to Boost Newly-Launched Mobile Platform
- Apple Sells 17.07M iPhones, 11.12M iPads, 6.62M iPods
- Z2Live’s Major MetalStorm Update Brings Flight Combat Game Back Up The Charts
- Google Adds A Social Layer to Android With People App, Social API
Wednesday, October 19th:
- ‘Batman’ Animator Launches New Gaming Studio With an Over-The-Top Rock, Paper, Scissors Game
- Emerging Free iOS Apps: AddictingGames, Pearltrees and Unstoppable Robots
- Playforge’s Zombie Farm Sprouts a Sequel in Zombie Life for iOS
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: TinyCo, Natural Motion, CrowdStar and More
- Spacetime Studios Carves Out a Name For Itself in Hardcore Mobile MMOs
Thursday, October 20th:
- New Hires in Mobile: GameLoft, Rovio and Tapjoy
- Konami Turns Arcade Classic Frogger Into a Pinball Game for iOS
- Top Emerging Android Apps: Tap Fish, TeamLava, Sentinel 3: Homeworld and Lots of Sports
- CrowdStar Expands Globally and on Mobile as It Girl Goes to Asia
- Russia’s Game Insight Makes $ 300K in First Two Weeks From My Country iPad App
Friday, October 21st:
- Inside Network Is Hiring Writers to Cover Facebook and Mobile Apps — Apply Now
- Mobile App Roundup: RIM, Microsoft, Tapjoy and Persona 4
- Gamevil’s New iOS Action RPG Advena Clashes Swords on the App Store
Saturday, October 22nd:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Natural Motion Games, Lolapps, TinyCo and More
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, October 17th:
- My Fishbowl Developer Happy Elements Nets $ 30M in Funding, Targets Mobile Market
- Ravenskye City Takes Flight on Facebook Before Ravenshire Castle is Built
Tuesday, October 18th:
- Spry Fox Targets Facebook, Google+ With Compelling Kindle Game
- Spa Life From FreshPlanet Pampers Players on Facebook
- New Facebook Game Invite Tool Streamlines Friend Requests Process
Wednesday, October 19th:
- Crowdpark Bets on Forecasting Algorithm for Facebook Game, Scores $ 6M Round for Mobile Development
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Lolapps, Sociable Labs, Games Cafe and More
- Trending Now: Simple Social Game Mechanics and Design Choices Gaining Ground
Thursday, October 20th:
- CrowdStar Announces Global Ambitions, It Girl Goes to Asia on NHN
- iWin Expands Its Facebook Game Show Tie-in Roster with $ 100,000 Pyramid
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Zynga, Kabam, and Playfish
- 6waves Lolapps Sews an Undead Farm Simulation on Facebook with Zombie Island
Friday, October 21st:
- Bingo Bash Powers Up a Classic Game of Chance on Facebook
- Crowdstar Enters Facebook Hardcore Strategy Genre With Wasteland Empires
- Social Gaming News Roundup: Google+, Rovio and Toyota
Saturday, October 22nd:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Games Cafe, King.com, TinyCo and More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, October 17th:
- Page Tabs, Mobile, Spotify, Scribd, Halloween and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU
- The 25 Most Liked Pages on Facebook, Fall 2011
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: “Tower Heist,” Fair Trade, Toyota, Kodak, CVS, Discovery Channel, Philips Sonicare and More
- Facebook Page Insights 2011 Upgrade: The Complete Reference Guide
- Clickable’s $ 12M Series C Led by American Express Will Fund Facebook Ads API Development
Tuesday, October 18th:
- Movies, TV, Music, Books, Jesus, Angry Birds and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Wikia, Shoutlet, Votigo, Vitrue and More
- Nominations Now Open for the Inaugural Facebook Studio Awards for Marketing Campaigns
- Facebook Encourages App Developers to Build In “Private Mode” to Mute Automatic Sharing
- How to Determine How Frequently to Post to Your Facebook Page
Wednesday, October 19th:
- Spotify, YouTube and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
- Facebook Condenses the Groups Interface, Leaving More Space for Ads
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Acquinity Interactive, King.com, TinyCo and More
- Facebook Releases Messenger for BlackBerry, Now Shows Who’s Online With Top Friends First
- Facebook Launches HTML5 Resource Center, but Early Mobile App Platform Traffic Is Slow
Thursday, October 20th:
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Games, Recruiting, Engineering and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Mobile, Engineering, Platform Ops and More
- Facebook and Labor Department Deliver Career Resources Through Social Jobs Partnership Page
- How to “Use Facebook as Page” to Raise Brand Awareness and Gain Fans
Friday, October 21st:
- Halloween, Grooveshark, “Twilight,” Page Tabs and More on This Week’s Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU
- Inside Network Is Hiring Writers to Cover Facebook and Mobile Apps — Apply Now
- Facebook Pages Can Now Be Opened in Facebook’s iOS Apps Via fb://page URL Scheme Links
- Facebook Testing “Facebook Credits for Websites” That Helps Third-Party Sites Sell Virtual Goods
- Facebook Roundup: NATO Declaration, Irish Data, Privacy Adoption and More
Saturday, October 22nd:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Storm8, TinyCo, Lolapps and More
Source: Inside Facebook
Links to all the news Inside Network brought you between October 3rd and 9th.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, October 3rd:
- Disney Mobile’s Puffle Launch Hits iOS and Android, Earns Players Coins in Club Penguin
- Emerging Top Paid iOS Apps: New Games from EA, Madfinger and Infinite Dreams
- DotEmu and BulkyPix Invite iOS Gamers to Visit ‘Another World’
- Adobe Looks Beyond Flash as It Acquires PhoneGap-Maker Nitobi
- Revenue for Top-Grossing iOS Games Appears to Level Off Ahead of iPhone 4S Launch
Tuesday, October 4th:
- Apple’s Game Center Gets Update, Has 67 Million Total Accounts to Date
- Apple Says It Has Paid Out $ 3 Billion to Developers
- Free 3GS, Lower Prices Will Help iOS’ Reach Among More Mainstream Consumers
- What the iPhone 4S Can Do for Games
Wednesday, October 5th:
- Emerging Top Grossing Apps: EA, Ngmoco, Game Insight and TinyCo
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: TinyCo, Wild Needle, CrowdStar and More
Thursday, October 6th:
- Emerging Free iOS Apps: Old Apps go Free and New Apps Show Modest Debuts
- Just as Apple Intrudes, Sincerely’s Photo-Printing Platform Racks Up Partners Like Path, Lonely Planet
- New Hires in Mobile: InMobi, GREE and Rovio
- Top Emerging Android Apps: Smurfs Arrive, Flash Updates and Live Wallpapers Get Seasonal
Friday, October 7th:
- Is Pocket Gems Leveling Up With New Funding From Redpoint?
- Mobile App Roundup: FIFA 12, Mooter Media, TellTale Games, Adobe & Hotmail
Saturday, October 8th:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: CrowdStar, TinyCo, Jelli and More
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, October 3rd:
- The Sims Social, Pioneer Trail Lead This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by MAU
- A Closer Look at Zynga’s First Full Sequel for Facebook, Mafia Wars 2
- Airport City From 6waves Lolapps Lands on Facebook
Tuesday, October 4th:
- Revenue for Top-Grossing iOS Games Appears to Level Off Ahead of iPhone 5 Launch
- Little Cave Hero Developer Atakama Labs Acquired by DeNA
- Apple’s Game Center Gets Update, Has 67 Million Total Accounts to Date
- What the iPhone 4S Can Do for Games
- Epic Games, Angry Birds Running on Flash 11
Wednesday, October 5th:
- The Pokerist Club, Bubble Witch Saga Beat Out The Sims Social on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by DAU
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Lolapps, Entertainment Games, TinyCo and More
- The Big Bang Theory: Mystic Warlords of Ka’a Brings Popular Sitcom’s Favorite Game to Facebook
Thursday, October 6th:
- New Hires in Social Gaming: 5th Planet, Vostu and Zynga
- Russia’s Pixonic Ready to Bet on Facebook, Mobile
- The Sims Social: 50 Days In and Gunning for CityVille’s Top Spot
Friday, October 7th:
- 3D Slots, Dirty Dancing Top This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Heart Shaped Games’ Hero Generations Will Make You Famous on Facebook
- Social Discovery Works for Games on Facebook if You Trust Your Social Graph
- Social Gaming News Roundup: RockYou, Elvis, Cow Clicker, Mafia Wars Shakedown and Dungeons & Dragons
Saturday, October 8th:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Lolapps, Jelli, CrowdStar and More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, October 3rd:
- Spotify, Photos, Profile Report cards, Page Tabs, Badoo and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Pretzel Crisps, Farmers Insurance, Zynga, 7-Eleven and JVC
- Jobvite’s New Facebook Recruiting App Suggests Friends to Refer
- Facebook Lets Brands Measure Earned Media With “People Talking About This” Page Metric
- Facebook’s Expanded Premium Ad Unit Combines Page Post Content with Convincing Social Context
Tuesday, October 4th:
- Movies, TV, Sports, Music, Angry Birds, Video Chat and a Chinese Model on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Buddy Media, Involver, BranchOut and Efficient Frontier
- Facebook Struggles to Explain Its Web-Tracking Practices
Wednesday, October 5th:
- Yahoo, YouTube, Friends, Dogs, God, Mobile, Photos and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages by DAU
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Acquinity Interactive, Warner Bros, Mindspark and More
- Facebook Reveals More Details About Timeline, Including an Approval Process for Open Graph Apps
- Bing Powers New Facebook Page Post Translation Tool
- The Facebook Marketing Bible October 2011 Edition Is Now Available
Thursday, October 6th:
- Photos Posted by Facebook Pages Now Appear Larger in the News Feed
- Facebook Careers Postings: Asia, Data Centers, Sales, Marketing and More
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Monetization, Account Management and More
- How to Use Facebook Timeline for Marketing
Friday, October 7th:
- Photos, Hearts and Calendars on This Week’s Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU
- News Outlets Preserve Privacy by Giving Users Ways to Mute Facebook’s Frictionless Sharing
- Facebook to Remove “Reviews” Page Tab App, Says New Tools Are Coming
- Facebook Roundup: Sparapani, BranchOut, AdParlor, Mail.ru, Websense and Michael Jackson
Saturday, October 8th:
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Mindspark, TinyCo, Jelli and More
Source: Inside Social Games
