This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between April 23 and 28.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, April 23
- Emerging free iOS apps: Deer Hunter Reloaded, Kingdom Age
- Conquer medieval Japan with Total War Battles
- Facebook updates Android app, adds new shortcuts to take over more of users’ homescreens
- GREE looks to stay profitable in North America with Wizcorp’s Mithril engine
Tuesday, April 24
- Test your South Park knowledge with Who Wants to be a Millionaire Special Editions
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Shark Dash, Hambo and SpellTower
- Outfit7 teams with Disney for animated Talking Friends web series
- Apple profits up 94% year-over-year to $39.2 billion
- Native Android apps can now get distribution through Facebook discovery channels
- Bubble Saga pops onto Kindle Fire; Android version in development
Wednesday, April 25
- MoPub: Without UDIDs mobile ad prices could plummet by 24%
- Kabam joins the Mobage stable with new Ngmoco publising deal
- Hunters 2: a solid addition to iOS growing strategy game library
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: DragonVale, Kingdoms of Camelot and Modern War
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: EA, Sneaky Games, King.com and more
Thursday, April 26
- Massive Joe aims for a monstrous hit with Escape from Age of Monsters
- Flick, shoot and explode zombies in Zynga’s ZombieSmash, now on Android
- Emerging popular Android apps: Rage of Bahamut, Ice Age Village, Shark Dash
- New hires in mobile: Big Fish Games, GREE and Scale Ventures Partners
- Zynga reports highest ever bookings for Q1 at $329M
- Zynga up to 21M mobile daily active users on strength of Q1 releases
Friday, April 27
- Mobile app downloads fall 30% in March, user acquisition costs stay the same — Fiksu
- Cross-platform lexical strategy with Word Off
- Ngmoco’s Doug Scott on Japan-meets-U.S. mobile games, life after Lionside
- Mobile app news roundup: Android earnings, the Kindle Fire and Viddy
Saturday, April 28
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 23
- Candy Crush Saga dominates this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Get rich or die trying with 50 Cent’s Blackjack
- Facebook estimates 4 percent of Q1 revenue came from ads on Zynga app pages, 11 percent from Zynga directly
Tuesday, April 24
- No more lost pieces with Jigsaw World
- Latest S-1 amendment shows Zynga and Facebook untangling their finances
- How likely is to Facebook lower its 30 percent fee for developers on the platform?
- Bubble Saga pops onto Kindle Fire; Android version in development
Wednesday, April 25
- Candy Crush Saga keeps sweet lead over this week’s fastest growing Facebook games by DAU
- Build a fantasy alliance in Playdom’s Armies of Magic
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Kixeye, GameHouse, King.com and more
- Nekki brings free-running to Facebook with Vector
Thursday, April 26
- Bubble Witch Saga and CityVille this week’s gainer and loser among April’s Top 25 games
- New hires in social gaming: East Side Games, Happy Elements and Kixeye
- More shiny gem-matching with Jewel Journey
- Zynga reports highest ever bookings for Q1 at $329M
- Zynga up to 21M mobile daily active users on strength of Q1 releases
- New games lead Zynga’s revenue to increase; more titles coming in Q2
Friday, April 27
- Gunny shoots to the top of this week’s emerging games on Facebook
- Prove who is the Top Shot on Facebook
- CrowdStar still building for Facebook, just through mobile
- Social games news roundup: Zynga, Nexon and Friendster
Saturday, April 28
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, April 23
- Viddy, Dailymotion, Instagram, games, BranchOut, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook updates Android app, adds new shortcuts to take over more of users’ homescreens
- Facebook expands arsenal with 650 patents from Microsoft, license to hundreds more
- Facebook generates $1.21 per user on average worldwide in Q1
- Facebook estimates 4 percent of Q1 revenue came from ads on Zynga app pages, 11 percent from Zynga directly
Tuesday, April 24
- Mobile, Converse, Snoop Dogg, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- How likely is to Facebook lower its 30 percent fee for developers on the platform?
- Native Android apps can now get distribution through Facebook discovery channels
- Facebook to increase profile picture size for pages
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Nixon Peabody, Courier.com, SponsorPay and more
Wednesday, April 25
- Yahoo, Metacafe, birthdays, games, Spoitfy, BranchOut, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook partners with anti-virus software makers to provide free computer security
- Facebook updates Locations app, but feature still only available to select pages
Thursday, April 26
- Facebook lowers barriers for developers, users to switch to Open Graph apps
- Facebook platform update: real-time insights, Offers API
- Facebook hires: engineering, data center, legal, more
- Facebook career postings: legal, mobile, data centers and more
- Facebook tries new tactics to get users to rate apps
Friday, April 27
- Facebook tests button that lets page owners skip complicated ad dashboard, promote content directly from their pages
- Facebook platform supports more than 42 million pages and 9 million apps
- Facebook Offers now available to partners through API; no date for wide release
- Facebook roundup: Yahoo, IPO, Windows Phone, security
Saturday, April 28
