This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between October 31st and November 5th.
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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:


