This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 6 to Jan. 12.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Tuesday, January 3
- Emerging Top Paid iOS apps: Board Games and Sales
- Android, iOS Downloads Finally Break The 1 Billion Per Week Barrier Over The Holidays
- Emerging Top Grossing iOS Apps: Tiny Tower, Zoosk and Stardom
Wednesday, January 4
- Nexon Expands Its Popular MapleStory Franchise With New Cave Crawlers iOS Game
- Google’s Android Market Passes 400,000 Apps
- Tapjoy Founders, Former Playdom Producer Raise Unusual Funding For New Gaming Company
- Total iPad App Downloads Pass 3 Billion — Nearly 20% of iOS’ Total to Date
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: 24 MAS, 50 Cubes, Natural Motion and more
- Emerging Free iOS Apps: Fluff Friends Rescue, Dress to Impress and The Sheeps
- Android Gingerbread Still on More Than Half of Devices, Ice Cream Sandwich Up to 0.6%
- Runkeeper: Being Featured in Android Market Can Boost Downloads Sevenfold
Thursday, January 5
- Android Bolsters Design Standards By Requiring ‘Holo’ Theme in Newer Devices
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Just 5 Weeks Away — February 8th and 9th in San Francisco
- Zynga Expands Successful “With Friends” Franchise with New Take on Scramble
- Facebook Classic (Fluff)Friends Finds New Life as Fluff Friends Rescue on iOS
- Four Mobile Games Vie For Best Handheld or Mobile Game at GDC
- New Hires in Mobile: Apple, Gameloft, ngmoco:)
- Emerging Android Apps: Drag Racing, Word Search, Adventures of Tintin
Friday, January 6
- Q&A: Gameloft’s Vallois on an Upcoming Mobile-Social Gaming Network & More
- A Top-Grossing iOS Game Like Epic’s Infinity Blade II Can Earn More Than $5 Million a Month
- Pictionary-Inspired Charadium Series Returns to Original Developer On5
- NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower Reaches 1M Daily Active Users
- Mobile App News Roundup: Angry Birds, Apple and Postsecret
- Women Over 30 Are The Most Avid Players of Mobile Games, Mocospace Study Says
Saturday, January 7
- Thanks to our sponsors
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: 50 Cubes, 24 MAS, IMVU and more
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, January 2
Tuesday, January 3
Wednesday, January 4
- Arkadium signs social game publishing deal with Microsoft Studios
- Zynga’s Hidden Chronicles launches today on Facebook
- Seismic Games opens doors with $2 million in funding for the “next wave” of social games
- Words With Friends leads this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Jana, IMVU, TubeMogul and more
- Dueling Blades courting “core” gamers this spring with strategic combat gameplay for Facebook, iOS and Android
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Just 5 Weeks Away — February 8th and 9th in San Francisco
Thursday, January 5
- Facebook classic (fluff)Friends finds new life as Fluff Friends Rescue on iOS
- New hires in social gaming: King.com, Wooga, Zynga
Friday, January 6
- Bingo bash tops this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Facebook relents on Credits, allows in-app currency offers
- Social gaming news roundup: Zynga, Wooga and funding
Saturday, January 7
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, January 2
Tuesday, January 3
- Facebook resurfaces recent status updates
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Brighter Option, Wildfire and Banyan Branch
- Timeline-related scams develop on Facebook
- The Facebook Marketing Bible January 2012 Edition Is Now Available
Wednesday, January 4
- Facebook adds recommendation feature to mobile touch site
- Facebook adds filters to mobile page walls
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Kubra, Acquinity, 50 Cubes and more
- Inside Social Apps 2012 just 5 weeks away — Feb. 8-9 in San Francisco
Thursday, January 5
- Crowdsourced ad platform Trada closes new round of funding
- Facebook partners with NBC’s Meet the Press for GOP debate
Friday, January 6
- Platform update: web insights, app stories, breaking changes
- Santorum, Paul see post-caucus spike this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Facebook shows some commenters how they’re connected
- Facebook careers postings: engineering, legal, marketing, more
- Facebook hires and departures: legal, Latin America, engineering, security, more
- Facebook improves location reporting for pages
- Facebook relents on Credits, allows in-app currency offers
Saturday, January 7
- Thanks to our sponsors
- Facebook roundup: business cards, hackathon, headquarters
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Acquinity, Kubra, 24 MAS and more
