This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between August 13 and 18
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, August 13
- Harry returns in Pitfall! for iOS
- TinyCo to set up not-so-tiny 60 person studio in Vancouver B.C.
- YoYo Games integrates monetization, analytics services into GameMaker: Studio
- Location analytics service Placed is now tracking up to 20 million locations a day
- Google cuts 4,000 Motorola Mobility jobs
Tuesday, August 14
- The Heist, Finger Olympics, Where’s My Perry? and more on this week’s top free iOS apps
- Drive to survive in Gears & Guts
- GREE’s net sales, income decline Q-over-Q to $508.6M and $156.1M on kompu gacha ban
- SkyVu raises undisclosed amount in round led by Lightbank
- Gunplay on rails with Total Recall
- App Annie raises $6 million in series B round of funding
- Pitfall!, Quickoffice Pro, GoodReader and more on this week’s top paid iOS app charts
Wednesday, August 15
- CSR Racing is earning more than $12M a month on iOS, says NaturalMotion
- Best Buy, Target, 7-11 and others form Merchant Customer Exchange, mobile wallet solution
- Gamevil Q2 2012 sales dip 7.8% Q-over-Q to $13.4M, as net profits rise to $5.2M
- The Inside Network Job Board: Ubisoft, SmartRecruiters, Game Pill Interactive and more
- Mobile revenues now account for 8.8% of Tencent’s earnings as net profit his $490.1M in Q2 2012
- Discover new videos with Vodio, now available for iPhone
- MediaBrix: Facebook and Mobile users prefer integrated, interactive ads
- Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, CSR Racing, Bejeweled Blitz and more on this week’s top grossing iOS app charts
Thursday, August 16
- Phosphor Games and Zynga unleash Horn for iOS, Android coming soon
- Stained-glass puzzling with Pictorial 2
- Exclusive: Full-service Chinese publisher Yodo1 signs up Germany’s HandyGames
- Big Fish teams with Betable, brings mobile real-money gaming to U.K.
- GREE’s North American studio earned $16.8M in Q2, with peak ARPDAU over $1
- New hires in mobile apps: Gameloft, NaturalMotion and Apsalar
- Emerging popular Android apps: Tiny Village, Modern War and Google=
Friday, August 17
- Zynga and Phosphor bring console-style action to mobile with Horn
- Tapjoy sees the gap between iOS and Android revenues closing in 2012
- HP is back into consumer tablets with new Mobility division, but will face tough challenges
- MoPub: growth in mobile ads, especially Android, social networking apps
- Gameloft’s Heroes of Order & Chaos brings MOBA to mobile
- Mobile app news roundup: Google Play, the iPhone 5, GREE and DeNA
Saturday, August 18
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, August 13
- Playdom invading core gamer territory with Mobsters: Criminal Empire
- Pilarina Estrada comes to Amazon Game Studios from Disney Playdom
- YoYo Games integrates monetization, analytics services into GameMaker: Studio
- Light of Nova review
- The Ville once again on top of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
Tuesday, August 14
- Social Gaming Infrastructure: Winning with Flash
- Bravo releases Real Housewives: The Game on Facebook.
- Mobsters: Criminal Empire review
- App Annie raises $6 million in series B round of funding
Wednesday, August 15
- Six weeks later: SimCity Social deep dive
- SongPop resumes its reign on this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- The Inside Network Job Board: Ubisoft, SmartRecruiters, Game Pill Interactive and more
- Tencent’s social networking revenues increase to $345.7M in Q2 2012
- Real Housewives: The Game review
Thursday, August 16
- Goko officially launches new HTML5 platform with social boardgames including Dominion, Settlers of Catan
- Phosphor Games and Zynga unleash Horn for iOS, Android coming soon
- New hires in social games: Amazon Game Studio, Zynga and more
- Big Fish teams with Betable, brings real-money gaming to U.K.
- Gametek sues major social games companies over virtual currency patent
- Dragon City and Hidden Chronicles this week’s gainer and loser among August’s Top 25 Facebook games
Friday, August 17
- Threads of Mystery review
- Riding Club Championships beats the competition by a nose on this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Top Gear Speed World review
- Social games news roundup
Saturday, August 18
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, August 13
- Anti-Facebook social platform App.net raises more than $700K from users and developers
- Facebook gives developers new setting to publish more prominent stories from Open Graph apps
- Facebook now reports average News Feed position for Sponsored Stories
- Yahoo, Bing, Power Editor, Causes, BranchOut and more on this week’s top 20 non-game Facebook apps growing by MAU
Tuesday, August 14
- Facebook tests page post ads in News Feed to reach users beyond fans and friends
- New Facebook platform industry hires and promotions: HYFN, Nanigans, Optimal
Wednesday, August 15
- Facebook countersues Mitel over patents
- Who subscribes to page updates without Liking? Facebook gives admins a list
Thursday, August 16
- Optimal, Nanigans and 3 more new partners join Facebook ad exchange program
- Facebook fixes photo deletion issue 3 years after privacy questions were raised
- Chevrolet, Toyota, BMW and more in this week’s top 10 PTAT gainers among car brand pages
- The Ville, Bing, SongPop, Dragon City, Zoosk and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook hires: communications manager, director of partner engineering, finance manager, commercial counsel, more
- Facebook careers: Indonesia growth manager, Open Graph partner engineer, media solutions, PMD managers, more
Friday, August 17
- What Payvment learned about F-commerce that led the company to start Lish.com
- Facebook returns to No. 2 spot among U.S. video sites, beating Yahoo, Vevo
- Social reader apps grow as Facebook tests larger ‘trending articles’ display
- Olympic Games City, Victoria’s Secret, Waze, Amazon and more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook roundup: shares close at $19.05, Instagram deal progresses, Oregon data center to be expanded and more
