This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from April 9 to April 15.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, April 9
- Saturday Morning RPG brings episodic gaming to the Japanese-style role-playing genre
- Facebook acquires Instagram for $1B
Tuesday, April 10
- 20 percent of Instagram users connect accounts with Facebook
- Activision brings Skylanders franchise to iOS with Skylanders Cloud Patrol
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Skylanders Cloud Patrol, Voice Assistant and Civilization Revolution
Wednesday, April 11
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Skylanders Cloud Patrol, Voice Assistant and Civilization Revolution
- Emerging top grossing iOS Apps: MLB at Bat, Turbo Tax and iMobsters
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SoJo, King.com, Legacy Games and more
Thursday, April 12
- Burnout Crash’s automotive chaos smashes on to iOS
- New hires in mobile: EachScape, Gameloft and GREE
- Emerging top grossing android apps: Rage of Bahamut, Voice Search and Phase 10
Friday, April 13
- Smartphone botnet piggybacks on pirated copies of Angry Birds Space
- Dark Legends brings cross-platform MMO action to mobile, tablet and browser players
- Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile
- Rockstar’s Max Payne Mobile already reaching for top of the iOS charts
- Mobile App news roundup: GetJar, Apple and Voxer
Saturday, April 14
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 9
- Zynga Slingo yet again tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers takes players on a hidden object safari adventure
- After staff shake-ups, 6waves returns to publishing over 40 social titles and focuses on mobile
Tuesday, April 10
- The animal kingdom comes to blows in Survival of the Fittest
- Hidden Chronicles finds its way to Facebook’s top 5 Hidden Object games
Wednesday, April 11
- Angry Birds roosts on top of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Machine Zone, King.com, Kobojo and more
- Build the perfect tropical getaway with Paradise Club
- Gamesville offers cash bonuses with Pirate Cove for Facebook
Thursday, April 12
- King.com breaking into match-3 genre with Candy Crush Saga on Facebook
- New hires in social gaming: Kabam, Plumbee and Playdom
- The Sims Social launches open beta in China via Tencent’s Qzone
- Pachinko puzzling with Superball
- Angry Birds and Empires & Allies this week’s gainer and loser among April’s Top 25 Facebook games
Friday, April 13
- Tetris Stars slides into top spot of this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Indulge your sweet tooth with Candy Crush Saga’s match-3 gameplay
- Social games news roundup: Zynga, pachinko and smutty social games
Saturday, April 14
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, April 9
- Yahoo, Scribd, Draw Something, Instagram, Pandora, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook acquires Instagram for $1B
- Facebook helps Instagram with unique Open Graph app rollout
Tuesday, April 10
- ‘The Simpsons,’ LMFAO, Target, Nutella, movies, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- 20 percent of Instagram users connect accounts with Facebook
- New Facebook platform industry hires: TBG Digital, Wildfire, Involver
- Facebook ads have higher clickthrough rates on weekends, study finds
Wednesday, April 11
- TripAdvisor adds personalization based on friends of Facebook friends
- FanRx brings Spotify play button to Facebook tab apps
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Offerpop, Spruce, W3i and more
- Facebook unveils school-specific groups, allows file sharing among users with designated .edu email addresses
- Facebook hires: product design, engineering, recruiting, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, counsel, data centers, more
Thursday, April 12
- Videos, events now featured in publisher tool for pages; Questions demoted to drop-down menu
- Facebook allows users to download expanded archive of their information
- The Facebook Marketing Bible April 2012 Edition Is Now Available
- Facebook to bring back option to invite all group members to events
Friday, April 13
- How Facebook Open Graph can enhance a marketing campaign
- Digg, games, Social Video, virtual gifts, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Santorum loses fans; competition heats up between Obama and Romney this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Facebook tests new way to let users know which links come from social readers and whether their activity will be shared
- Facebook acquires mobile loyalty startup Tagtile
- Facebook roundup: Sandberg, Colleran, Seattle and Menlo Park
Saturday, April 14
