This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between June 24 and July 1.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, June 25
- Game Insight reveals MMO Dragon Eternity for iOS, Android and web
- Fly a whole planet with Min: A Space Adventure
- Emerging free iOS apps: Angry Birds Space Free, Flow Free and Hay Day
Tuesday, June 26
- Adult Swim reveals what really happened to the dinosaurs in Velocirapture
- Zynga moves into mobile publishing with Phosphor Games, Clay Jam, Atari and others
- Zynga unveils Matching With Friends, the latest addition to the With Friends franchise
- Temple Run: Brave, Asphalt 7: Heat, NOAA Hi-Def Radar and more on this week’s top paid iOS apps
Wednesday, June 27
- Save the Bandies in Band Together
- Pocket Gems tries its hand at multiplayer with voice-based All Talk
- Live from Google I/O 2012
- Google I/O: There are now 400 million Android devices and 1 million activations a day
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update introduces offline Siri-like voice writing, gesture navigation, more
- Google Play passes 20 billion app installs
- Google and Asus take aim at Amazon’s Kindle Fire with the Nexus 7 Android tablet
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Big Viking Games, TellApart, Playsino and more
- Google rolls out Android PDK with an eye to fixing fragmentation issues
- 67% of all Google Play revenue comes from outside the U.S.
- Bubble Witch Saga coming to iOS next month
- DragonVale, Global War HD and Magic 2013 and more on this week’s top grossing iOS apps
Thursday, June 28
- Full-service publisher Yodo1 wants to help Western developers crack China
- Zynga’s Matching With Friends aims to be the next asynchronous craze
- New hires in mobile: Gameloft, GREE and Tapjoy
- Amazon to allow social features for Kindle Fire games
Friday, June 29
- Fiksu: Mobile app downloads recover from three month slump as user acquisition costs fall
- The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7
- GREE’s card-battling hit Driland hits Android and iOS
- How rating affects ranking in search results and top charts across platforms
- Want to be a top grossing iOS app — you need to earn about $5M a month now
- Slot City, Duck Hunting and Osmos HD and more on this week’s Android app charts
- Mobile apps news roundup: Rage of Bahamut’s printing money, RIM’s problems get worse and Amazon might launch the Kindle Fire 2 soon
Saturday, June 30
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, June 25
- Game Insight reveals MMO Dragon Eternity for iOS, Android and web
- SimCity Social now live on Facebook
- Bubble Safari comes out on top of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- SimCity Social (Open Beta) review
- SimCity Social: Over an hour in and no paywall in sight
Tuesday, June 26
- The Fire Rises review
- Live from Zynga Unleashed
- Zynga reveals Zynga API for third-party developers
- Zynga announces publishing deals with Majesco, 50 Cubes and Portalarium
- Meet The Ville, the newest member of Zynga’s “Ville” family
- Zynga’s stock rises, then tanks during Unleashed event
- Zynga and EA: Dog chasing tail
Wednesday, June 27
- Song Pop hits new high note among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Google+ now has over 150M active users, adds Android tablet and iPad compatibility
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Big Viking Games, TellApart, Playsino and more
- Bubble Witch Saga coming to iOS next month
- Rooms of Memory review
Thursday, June 28
- New hires in social gaming: Zynga, Game Insight and Wooga
- The Ville review
- CityVille and Words With Friends this week’s gainer and loser among June’s Top 25 Facebook games
- Amazon to allow social features for Kindle Fire games
Friday, June 29
- Foreign-language titles dominate this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- I AM PLAYR review
- Social game news roundup: Spider-Man webs up Avengers Alliance, Gameloft working on My Little Pony and Pam Anderson wants to play poker with you
Saturday, June 30
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, June 25
- Facebook tests design and wording changes to encourage users to post more
- This Week in the Facebook Marketing Bible
- Facebook adds COO Sheryl Sandberg to board of directors
- Facebook complicates privacy settings and hide users’ email addresses, favoring its own messaging platform
- Bubble Safari keeps popping, TripAdvisor runs Sponsored Stories, and more on this week’s top growing Facebook apps by MAU
Tuesday, June 26
- Timeline still optional for Facebook users more than 6 months after global launch
- Facebook removes Find Friends Nearby feature, but is another location-based product on the way?
- Petflow, Walmart, Converse and more on this week’s top 10 gainers in retail and consumer merchandise pages
- Facebook updates Messenger and Pages Manager mobile apps
Wednesday, June 27
- Facebook promotes user education with new icon above ads
- AllFacebook Marketing Conference Kicks Off Tomorrow – June 28th and 29th in San Francisco
- Facebook building ‘blazing fast’ iOS app, New York Times says
- Admins can now change their page URL without having to submit a request
- Is a Twitter Open Graph app on the way?
- Facebook creates new ‘follow’ action to allow users to get updates about other users’ app activity directly in News Feed
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Adaptly, Blinq, GraphEffect, PageLever, Unified and Wildfire
Thursday, June 28
- Facebook reminds page owners which ‘voice’ they are using to post to their pages
- Open Graph apps can now publish multiple photos and use third-party location data
- ‘See your ad here’ module encourages developers to promote their apps with Sponsored Stories
- Facebook testing ‘Want’ button plugin
Friday, June 29
- Instagram, Socialcam, Glassdoor, Chill, Sims FreePlay and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Coca-Cola, Entertaining Elf, Ted movie and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- Facebook hires: head of policy, analysts, client partners, engineers, more
- Facebook career postings: mobile, platform, recruiting, client management, more
- Facebook roundup: stock price slips, Chill raises $8M, new currency API and more
