This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between August 27 and September 1.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, August 27
- Fight it out in the animal kingdom with Zookeeper Battle
- Inside Network at PAX Prime 2012
- Flurry: China could have more iOS and Android devices than the U.S. by Christmas
- ESPN Fantasy Football 2012, The Weather Channel, What’s My IQ? and more on this week’s top free iOS apps
Tuesday, August 28
- Chartboost expands its Kiosk program with four new big-budget offers from Booyah, Kabam, Crowdstar and GREE
- Gogobot turns to mobile in order to conquer the travel service market
- Flipboard hits 20 million user mark
- Happy landings in Box 2 Box
- WhatsApp Messenger, Vintique, NFL and more on this week’s top paid iOS app charts
Wednesday, August 29
- The battle for numeracy has begun in Numbers Together
- Aeria Mobile brings Monster Paradise to Android
- Placed adds support for mobile websites, adds marketing exec Jeff Lanctot to board
- New hires in mobile apps: InMobi, Motorola Mobility and more
Thursday, August 30
- With 20% of its users watching on mobile devices, TV streaming service Crunchyroll sees its mobile business soar
- Battle evil through the ages with Time Defenders
- The Inside Network Job Board: KANO/Apps, Optimal Inc., eBay and more
- Nearly half of smartphone consumers make digital purchases — Millennial Media
- Emerging popular Android apps: Blood Brothers, Pinterest and more
- Double Fine reveals first iOS title Middle Manager of Justice
Friday, August 31
- Fiksu: user acquisition costs continue to rise as iOS downloads fall
- HitPoint reveals episodic title Adera for Xbox games on Windows 8 launch
- Catch 22 marks first PAX 10 indie Facebook game
- Mobile app news roundup: Amazon, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Square and AT&T
Saturday, September 1
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, August 27
- Inside Network at PAX Prime 2012
- SongPop still topping the charts of the fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Campaign Story review
Tuesday, August 28
- Family Village review
- East Side Games launches Ruby Skies in Canada, Korea and Hong Kong
- Zynga CCO Mike Verdu announces his departure
Wednesday, August 29
- Zynga teaming up with Eruptive Games for Citizen Grim
- Aeria Mobile brings Monster Paradise to Android
- New hires in Social games: King.com, Zynga and more
- Dreamland re-review
- 6waves horns in on bubble shooter genre with Bubble Epic
Thursday, August 30
- Facebook updates platform policies, limits games on third-party sites
- EA’s next social title is the hidden object game Jetset Secrets
- The Inside Network Job Board: KANO/Apps, Optimal Inc., eBay and more
- Zynga loses two more VPs
- Players are in the kitchen with ChefVille on this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Candy Crush Saga and The Ville are this week’s gainer and loser amongst the Top 25 Facebook Games of August 2012
Friday, August 31
- Foreign language games score big on this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Zynga hires former online gambling executive Maytal Ginsburg Olsha
- Bubble Epic review
- Come on, DC: Give Batman his own social game
- Facebook re-opens notifications channel for developers to send users custom messages
- Catch 22 marks first PAX 10 indie Facebook game
- Social games news roundup: Kabam’s making more money away from Facebook, Square Enix is delivering great games to your browser and Amazon’s Appstore comes to Europe
Saturday, September 1
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, August 27
- Facebook shows off the size of its News Feed ads
- Chefville, social readers, Scribd, Causes, BranchOut and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
Tuesday, August 28
- Does Romney have a better Facebook strategy than Obama?
- SumAll helps businesses see correlation between social activity and sales
- Facebook gives page owners new option to reach friends of fans with ‘Promote’ button
- Facebook updates Camera app for iPhone with notifications to draw users back in
Wednesday, August 29
- 4 strategies advertisers are using for Facebook’s search ads
- State approves Facebook’s plan to issue stock for Instagram purchase
- New page post targeting options coming to all Facebook pages over 5,000 Likes
- Facebook updates Pages Manager app with additional support for photos
Thursday, August 30
- Facebook updates platform policies, limits games on third-party sites
- Rockstar Games, Farmville Neighbours, EA Sports Madden and more among this week’s Most Talked About game/toy pages
- Facebook to allow ad targeting by email, user ID and phone number
- Facebook hires: data center technicians, recruiters, marketing managers, designer and more
- Facebook careers: FBX, financial planning, internal communications, engineering, more
- Bing continues to expand Facebook integration with Facebook friends’ photos search feature
Friday, August 31
- Word of Mouth at Scale with Facebook: Understanding PTAT
- Facebook to increase automated efforts to remove false Likes
- Facebook re-opens notifications channel for developers to send users custom messages
