This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between October 31st and November 5th.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, October 31st:
- With 60M Monthly Actives, Outfit7 Hints at Powering Distribution For Other Mobile Developers
- Flurry Sees 2.6B App Downloads This Month on iOS, Android
- More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco
- Flurry Launches New Ads to Bring Users Back to Apps They’ve Already Downloaded
Tuesday, November 1st:
- Emerging Top Paid iOS Apps: Zombies, Zombies and More Zombies
- Gameloft’s iOS FPS Modern Combat 3 Blows Up on the App Store
- Emerging Top Grossing Apps: Modern Combat, Booyah’s MyTown 2 and Game Insight
- The New Alternative to UDIDs Seems to Be The MAC Address, But Privacy Issues Still Loom
- GREE Says it Will Launch New Global Mobile-Social Gaming Platform Using OpenFeint Next Year
Wednesday, November 2nd:
- Vector Unit Races to iOS with Watercraft Racing Title Riptide GP
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Natural Motion, King.com, TinyCo and More
- Emerging Free iOS Apps: Assassin’s Creed, Adobe Carousel and Cut the Birds
- Gameloft Earnings Rise 17% to $55.9M in Third Quarter
- Ngmoco’s Young Gives a Saucy Rejoinder to Mobage Critics as Android Gaming Network Comes Out of Beta
Thursday, November 3rd:
- Capcom Sees $77M In Revenue From Mobile-Social Gaming Unit Through Year Ending in March
- More Details on Tapjoy’s New Direct-to-Consumer Play — A “Personal App Marketplace”
- Android Grows to 43%, While Apple Holds at 28% in U.S. Smartphone Market Share
- Glu Mobile’s Smartphone Revenues Climb to $9.7M in Third Quarter
Friday, November 4th:
- New Hires in Mobile: GREE, Gameloft and Tapjoy
- Ayopa’s W.E.L.D.E.R. Spells Out New Twist on iOS Word Games
- Top Emerging Android Apps: Life is Crime, Clouds & Sheep and Suddenly Popular Zombies
- Zynga’s Mobile Daily Actives Grow by Tenfold in Less Than a Year to 9.9M in Third Quarter
- Zynga Spent Nearly $20M on Acquiring Four Companies in the Third Quarter
Saturday, November 5th:
- Mobile App Roundup: Funzio, DeNA and Adobe
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ngmoco :), Check Point Studios, TinyCo and More
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, October 31st:
- Bubble Games Bouncing Around This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- Cheech and Chong’s Animated Game Lights Up on Facebook
- More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco
- Pool on Facebook: Simple But Highly Social
Tuesday, November 1st:
- YetiZen’s Accelerator Program Shows Off Revamped Games, Services
- Game Insight Goes to Google+With Resort World, Bringing Mystery Manor to iPad
- Multi-Channel Ad Marketplace AdKnowledge Acquires Bootstrapped Facebook Ads API Vendor AdParlor
- GREE Says it Will Launch New Global Mobile-Social Gaming Platform Using OpenFeint Next Year
Wednesday, November 2nd:
- Ravenskye City, Bubble Witch Saga on Top in This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by DAU
- Q-Games Brings its Acclaimed PlayStation Tower Defense Game PixelJunk Monsters to Facebook
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Games Cafe, King.com, TinyCo and More
- Bossa Studios Makes its Godzilla Sized Mark on Facebook Games with Monstermind
- RockYou Cuts Half of Staff, Shelves Cloudforest, Spins Out Playdemic, Drives up ARPU on Zoo World 2
Thursday, November 3rd:
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Crowdstar, Playfish and Zynga
- How to Spot a Breakout Facebook Game
- Zynga’s CastleVille Launching This Month
Friday, November 4th:
- Zombie Island, Wasteland Empires Top This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Zynga’s Revenue Climbs to $306.8M in Third Quarter as Daily Actives Decline
- With Android, iOS, Close to 20 Percent of Zynga’s Daily Actives Are Not on Facebook
- Zynga Spent Nearly $20M on Acquiring Four Companies in the Third Quarter
- Supercell’s Facebook Action RPG Gunshine.net Comes Out (of Beta) Shooting
- OMGPOP Expands Facebook Offerings With HTML5 Based Gem Rush
- Social Gaming News Roundup: Sony, Playdom and DeNA
Saturday, November 5th:
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, October 31st:
- Birthdays, Page Tabs, Band Apps, Scribd, Cupid and Skype on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU
- More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Street King, Realtors, Gray Line, MassMutual and Farmers Insurance
- Facebook Discontinues Official Mp3 Music Player, Pushes Users to Streaming Partners
Tuesday, November 1st:
- Adele, Real Madrid, Puss In Boots, Battlefield, Jesus and Coca-Cola on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- Multi-Channel Ad Marketplace AdKnowledge Acquires Bootstrapped Facebook Ads API Vendor AdParlor
Wednesday, November 2nd:
- Yahoo, Snaptu, Grooveshark, Onedate, WhoIsNear? and Photos on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by DAU
- The Facebook Marketing Bible November 2011 Edition Is Now Available
- Hotel Marketing Platform Buuteeq Helps Travel Destinations Build Rich Facebook Presences
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: BLiNQ, Lolapps, TinyCo and More
- How to Use Facebook Open Graph Apps for Marketing Through the Ticker and Timeline
Thursday, November 3rd:
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Research, Marketing and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Legal, Asia, Recruiting, Engineering and More
- Deal United’s Facebook “Credits Rewards” Lets Clients Incentivize Signups and Purchases With Virtual Currency
Friday, November 4th:
- Photos, Halloween, Pixable, Washington Post Social Reader and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU
- Instant Message, Music Services Are Now Among the Most Engaging Facebook Apps
- Facebook Roundup: Swedish Data Center, Solar Energy, Politics, Messages, Seattle and Ceglia
Saturday, November 5th:
