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
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: nWay, 12 Gigs, GREE and more.
Big Viking Games
FunSockets
- Senior Director of User Acquisition
Karma
King.com
- Community Manager/CRM Assistant
Nectar Communications
- PR Account Supervisor/Director
nWay, Inc
Playsino
- Associate Producer Mobile/ Social Games
- Lead iOS Developer Mobile/ Social Games
PT Gaming
- Job Fair – San Bruno Customer Service Provider
TellApart
Ubisoft
Source: Inside Social Games
The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best social media job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at: Big Viking Games, TellApart, Playsino and more.
- Social Game Designer
- Senior Programmer
- Associate Producer/Producer
- Senior Director of User Acquisition
- Product Manager for Mobile Games
International Development Group (IDG)
- Director of PR & Marketing
- IT Manager
- Sales Director
- HR Administrator
- Community Manager/CRM Assistant
Mixr, Inc.
- Associate Producer Mobile / Social Games
- Lead iOS Developer Mobile / Social Games
PT Gaming
- Job Fair – Customer Service/Retail Professionals
ReachLocal
- Director, Performance Marketing
- Sidekick to the CTO/Technical Consultant
- Product Manager, Growth & Engagement
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Source: Inside Social Games
Abundance
- Social Media / Online Community Manager
- Mobile Analystics Manager
- Social Game Designer
- Senior Programmer
- Associate Producer/Producer
- Flash Developer (AIR Experience Required)
- UI/UX Designer
- PHP Web Developer
- Java/ SQL Developer
International Development Group (IDG)
- Director of PR & Marketing
- Senior Advertising Sales Manager (UK or DE)
- IT Manager
- Sales Director
- HR Administrator
- C/C++ Game Developer
- Senior Operations Engineer
- Senior Erlang Infrastructure Developer
- Senior Scalability Engineer
- PHP Developer – Games
- Mobile/Web Advertising Artist
Mixr, Inc.
PT Gaming
- Job Fair – Customer Service/Retail Professionals
ReachLocal
- Game Developer
- Project Manager
- Product Manager, Social Game
- Director, Performance Marketing
- Game Artist – Isometric
- iOS Games Developer
- Data Analyst
- Sidekick to the CTO/Technical Consultant
- Product Manager, Growth & Engagement
- Agile Development Engineer
Source: Inside Facebook
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
Associate Producer Mobile / Social Games
Sales Executive
Games Metrics Analyst
