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, June 27th, 2011
- Monday Mobile Roundup: RIM, iPhone Rumors & More
- Android Market Adds App Rating Distributions
- Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Movie-Based Games, Tower Defense, & Stealth Appear This Week
- Looking to Break Into Hollywood, Rovio Adds Former Chairman of Marvel as an Advisor
- Mobile App Discovery Is a Developer Problem, Not a Consumer Problem
- Crowdstar’s Top Girl Passes 1 Million Downloads, Becomes Top-Grossing App
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
- Android Now Seeing 500,000 Device Activations Per Day, 4.4% Week-Over-Week Growth
- Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Cars 2, TeamLava Updates, Cooking & More
- Sonic Rises Up The Grossing Charts with Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
- Tuesday Mobile Round-Up: Fiksu Steps In, 183B App Downlads in 2015
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
- South Korea’s Gamevil Launches $10 Million Fund to Find Game Developer Partners
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Atari, Voxer, Wild Needle, Seismic, SolutionSet and More
- As The Chinese Smartphone Gaming Market Blossoms, PapayaMobile Offers Localization
- Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Line Games, Lite Versions & Pranks Grow
- Zynga Signs Deal With AT&T for Custom Android Content
- Ionocraft Racing Shows Good Ideas, But Gameplay is a Bit Dull
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
- Boku’s SDK For One-Tap Mobile Payments on Android Comes Out of Beta
- New Hires in Mobile: Alphonso Labs, Big Fish Games, Foursquare & More
- Hold the Line in Trenches: Generals on iPad
- Thursday Mobile Roundup: Upcoming Games, Franchise Expansion, Patents & More
Friday, July 1st, 2011
- Zynga Paid $53.3 Million in Cash and Stock for Newtoy, IPO Filing Shows
- Zynga Shows Off Strong Financials but Questions Remain Around Impact of Credits, Off-Facebook Revenue
- Zynga Files S-1 Ahead of Initial Public Offering — Our Coverage
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Monday, June 27th, 2011
- Zoo World 2 Climbing This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- A List of Current Options for Buying Facebook Credits Around the World
- Adknowledge Launches Social2Web Integrated Monetization Solution for Off-Facebook Social Games
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
- CNBC Report: Zynga to File IPO as Soon as Tomorrow, Will Raise up to $2B
- FishHunt Explores Under-Developed Fishing Genre, Focuses on Expansion According to Player Feedback
- AltEgo Set to Sell Cross-Platform Avatar Solution to Social Game Devs
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
- Gardens of Time Growing Again on This Week’s List of Fastests-Growing Facebook Games by DAU
- IP Aggregators Aim to Connect Brands and Developers
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Seismic, Atakama Labs, Spooky Cool Labs, Atari, Wild Needle and More
- Zynga Signs Deal With AT&T for Custom Android Content
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
- LOLapps Acquires Fliso Engine & Creator, Enters Licensing Business
- Virtual World Smeet Sees Fluctuations in Users as Summer Vacation Starts
- New Hires in Social Gaming: CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate, iWin, & More
- GSN Plans Mobile Expansion, Looks for Games to License on Facebook Portal App
- Google Plus Source Code Hints at Social Games Future for the Platform
Friday, July 1st, 2011
- inFamous Anarchy Tops This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Zynga Files S-1, Plans to Go Public and Raise $1 Billion, Overcoming Credits Costs
- MindJolt’s Kamikaze Race Takes the Minimalist Approach to Graphics, Social Features and Monetization
- Pincus Sold $109 Million in Stock Back to Zynga in March 2011
- Zynga Reveals Actual Uniques at 148 Million Unique Users
- The Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2011 Welcomes Empires & Allies
- Zynga Shows Off Strong Financials but Questions Remain Around Impact of Credits, Off-Facebook Revenue
- Social Gaming Roundup: Bungie Aerospace, FamilyVille, Funding, & More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, June 27th, 2011
- Quotes, Badoo, BranchOut, Photos, VEVO, Videos, Horoscopes and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Coca-Cola, Qatar Airways, Clearasil and Esurance
- Facebook Disables Numerous Apps That Have Negative User Feedback, May Need to Improve Enforcement Communications
- Without Proper Recruiter Search, Monster’s BeKnown Facebook Professional Networking App Lacks Value
- Platform Update: FQL Page_Admin Table Access, Uploading Videos, App Feedback Insights
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Work4Labs, Nanigans, Wildfire and Efficient Frontier
- Just Bieber, “Harry Potter,” CNN, American Express and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- HP Preps Facebook App for Its Palm WebOS TouchPad Tablet With Flipboard-Style News Feed
- How to Get Facebook Users to Like Your Page: The First Step to Engagement
- As Demand for Facebook Credits Increases, Microincentive Provider Ifeelgoods Positions Itself With $6.5 Million First Round
- DLA Piper Stops Representing Paul Ceglia in Controversial Facebook Ownership Claim
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
- Horoscopes, Luck, Zoosk, Mobile, Pages and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU
- RockMelt Raises $30 Million Following Facebook Partnership
- Facebook Launches Graph API Explorer for Testing and Revamps Developer App for Speed
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Acquinity Interactive, SolutionSet, Seismic Games, Atakama Labs and More
- Facebook Partners With American Express to Get Small Businesses Hooked on Buying Ads
- Facebook Adds Reverse Chronological Sorting to Comments Box Plugin, Now on 300,000 Sites
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Hong Kong, Recruiting, IP, Interns, Data Centers and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Finance, Communications, Brazil, Singapore and More
- Facebook for iPhone 3.4.3 Can Display Menu in Landscape Mode to Its 45 Million Daily Users
- How Top Brands Conduct Ecommerce on Facebook: Best Practices
Friday, July 1st, 2011
- Dating, Photos, Chat and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU
- Facebook Asks Users to Clean Up Its Location Database with Places Editor and Favorite Places
- Gamers Can Now Buy Facebook Credits in 32 More Currencies, Including the Chinese Yuan
- Zynga Shows Off Strong Financials but Questions Remain Around Impact of Credits, Off-Facebook Revenue
- Zynga Files to Go Public — Our Coverage
- Facebook Roundup: Credits, Deals, Hacker Hire, TV, Hulu, Lawsuits, and Thailand
