This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
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.
Monday, May 16th, 2011
- Emerging Paid iOS Apps: New Titles & Quality Updates Appear This Week as Gameloft Fills the iPad Charts
- Stackmob Raises $7.5 Million to Power Back-End Development for Mobile Apps
- Backflip Studios Hails to the King with Army of Darkness Defense
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
- Gamevil’s Air Penguin Surpasses $1M in Revenue
- Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Past Top Paid & Free Apps Rise This Week
- Z2Live Flies High With MetalStorm: Online for iOS
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
- Wednesday Mobile Roundup: Security Risks, Asia, Funding, & More
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Ubisoft, Sociable Labs, Daglow Entertainment and More
- Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Games & Customization Rise on iPhone, While TV & Videos Fill the iPad
- Adknowledge, Ansca Mobile Partner to Offer Development, Distribution Resources to Developers
- Capcom’s Beeline Interactive Lights Up iPad with Glo Flow HD
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
- New Hires in Mobile: Big Fish Games, EA Mobile, Foursquare, & More
- PapayaMobile Publishes the Last of Its Android Games As it Shifts to Platform Strategy
Friday, May 20th, 2011
- Friday Mobile Roundup: Spending, Acquisitions, Milestones, & More
- How Will Android Play Out in Asia? A Conversation With A-Fund’s David Chao
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, May 16th, 2011
- New Texas Holdem Poker Game On This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- Game of Thrones Hits Social Media Mainstream With New Game, Interest-Targeted Advertising From Other Media
- Popular License and Historical Accuracy Keeps Pawn Stars: The Game Players Engaged
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
- New Boyz: The World Experiments With Fan-To-Celebrity Engagement
- RockYou Asia Rolls Out Happy City To Taiwan With High Hopes, Steep Competition
- Viximo Sees Hope For Smaller And Declining Facebook Developers Through Cross-Platform Publishing
- Candy Dream Combines Magical Nostalgia With Realistic Supply and Demand Economy
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
- Zynga Games See Spikes In This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU
- PopCap Launches Plants vs. Zombies on Renren, Don’t Hold Your Breath For U.S. Release
- Zynga Acquires Casino City Dev DNA Games, Validates Rapid Iteration Approach
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Kixeye, Ubisoft, OpenFeint and More
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire Grows Through Competition, Limited Play
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
- The Amazing Puzzle Factory Brings Traditional Pen and Paper Puzzles to Facebook
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Cie Games, Kabam, Loot Drop, & More
- Playtika Acquired By Caesars Entertainment Casino Group For $80M To $90M
- Trade Nations Replicates Character-Driven Mechanics and Dynamic Economy of iOS Original
Friday, May 20th, 2011
- Super Texas Holdem Poker Tops This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Game Portal Apps on Facebook by Traffic: New Winners and Losers Emerge This Year
- The Flirt Game Exemplifies Stone Creek Entertainment’s Focus on Emergin Female Market
- Fairyland Pairs Cuteness and Complexity
- Social Gaming Roundup: Lawsuits, Promotions, Funding and More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Monday, May 16th, 2011
- Videos, Page Tabs, Vevo, Quizzes, Zoosk, More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Corona & MTV, Ru La La, Hotels.com, Wheat Thins and Nook
- Platform Update: Subscribe to Comments Box Threads, Like Story Feedback Insights, Send Button Metrics
- Facebook Rolls Out Places Functionality and Checkin Deals to Pages With Street Addresses
- Facebook Tells Some Developers They Have 48 Hours to Fix Authentication Data Leaks
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
- Omar ibn al-Khattab, Rihanna, Zynga, Harry Potter, Vin Diesel and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Buddy Media, Context Optional, Efficient Frontier, Syncapse, Vitre and Work4 Labs
- Facebook Drops Age, Residency, and Industry (Tobacco, Gambling, Dairy) Prohibitions on Promotions
- “Understand the Apps You Use” Sidebar Link Attempts to Educate Facebook Users on App Security
- Facebook Wins Patents For Tagging in Photos, Other Digital Media
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
- Phrases, Video, Badoo, Pages, Photos and Yahoo on This Week’s List of Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sociable Labs, Acquinity Interactive, Daglow Entertainment and More
- Facebook’s Mid-East Traffic in April: Egypt, Pakistan Makes Gains, Saudi Arabia Loses Users
- 1.65 Billion Likes of TV Shows Indicates Facebook’s Importance to Television
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Marketing, Engineering, Dublin and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Sales, Engineering, Deals and More
- Facebook Rolls Native Page Management Tools Into Pages Dashboard
- Facebook Adds 25 New Preferred Developer Consultants, Improves PDC Lookup Tool
Friday, May 20th, 2011
- Gifts, Video, Coupons, Quizzes, Friends and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps
- Update to Facebook Promotion Guideline Changes: Restrictions on Some Categories Such as Gambling Remain
- Bing’s Facebook-Enhanced Results Now Appear More Frequently on a Wider Range of Searchers
- Facebook Roundup: IPO, Privacy, Like Button, Eventbrite, Acquisitions, Winklevoss Bros, Baseball and More
