This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between September 10 and 15.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, September 10
- Compare prices with Price Check by Amazon
- BeatTheBushes for location-aware lost and found
- Agawi teams with Microsoft to bring cloud-based gaming to Windows 8
- ESPN, NFL, Tap Campus Life and more on this week’s top free mobile apps
- Super Hexagon nails the formula for player addiction
Tuesday, September 11
- Smartphone ad impressions show most growth, feature phones bottom out
- Vintagio brings old-school aesthetics to your videos
- Start a sorority in Tap Campus Life
- Localytics secures $5.5M Series B from Polaris Venture Partners and others
Wednesday, September 12
- Wipeout, Notability, SwiftKey and more on this week’s top paid iOS app charts
- babe.e.book gives families a private place to share memories
- Apple unveils 4″, 16:9 iPhone 5 with new A6 processor
- Apple shows off Instagram-style photo sharing, Passbook, Facebook integration and improved maps in iO6
- Apple redesigns iTunes for iOS, Facebook, Twitter integration come to App Store
- 400 million iOS devices sold, 700k apps — 90 percent of which see downloads every month
- The Inside Network Job Board: Blizzard, Playphone, ShopWell and more
- Zynga brings two mobile titles over from Japan to North America
- New Hires in mobile apps: Wooga, GREE, Tapjoy and more
- Siri, 4″ screen and A5 processors come to iPod Touch
- Take to the battlefield in Infinite Warrior
Thursday, September 13
- Hands on with Line, the 60 million user strong mobile-social network from Japan
- Rage of Bahamut, Bingo Bash, Pandora and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
- What iOS 6 changes for app developers
- Drawing in the stars in Space Holiday
Friday, September 14
- Hands-on with Google’s new iOS and Android Google Drive apps
- Guest Post: major growth ahead for mobile advertising in China, but fragmentation looms
- Nexage looks to improve mobile ad analytics with “atomic level” insights
- Rune Gems brings a Shanghai-esque take on the match-3 genre
- Nielsen: teens lead growth in smartphones
- Mobile App Roundup: iPhone 5 sales, AdWords and a Chinese challenger for Android
Saturday, September 15
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, September 10
- Zynga’s CTO of infrastructure departs
- Zynga wins big among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Cabinet Noir: Persons of Interest review
- Jeff Karp stepping down from Zynga
- Update: Lucky Train and Lucky Space disappear from Facebook
Tuesday, September 11
Wednesday, September 12
- Players are getting Bejeweled on this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- MediaSpike seeks to make in-game product placement easier to implement
- Nordeus and bwin.party join forces for sports-betting game
- Slots! review
- Nuukster turns to Kickstarter to fund Birdopolis’s further development
- Zynga brings two mobile titles over from Japan to North America
- New hires in social games: King.com, Disney and more
Thursday, September 13
- Rubber Tacos review
- Zynga Slingo and The Sims Social this week’s gainer and loser among the Top 25 Facebook games of September 2012
Friday, September 14
- Funtactix’s The Hunger Games Adventures comes to iPad
- Foreign-language games top this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Mini Putt Park review
- Robert Melendres opens up about IGT’s current and future plans for DoubleDown Casino
- UPDATE: Zynga responds to The Ville copyright lawsuit, accuses EA of violating anti-trust laws
- Social games news roundup: Lots of people play Facebook games, social casino games will make lots more money soon and wooga is updating Diamond Dash for iOS
Saturday, September 15
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, September 10
Tuesday, September 11
- Zuckerberg says mobile is good for Facebook, shuts down phone rumors, and talks about Instagram acquisition
- Zuckerberg’s first interview post-IPO: ‘It isn’t about fun anymore; it’s about mission’
Wednesday, September 12
- Internet retailers miss opportunities by not using Facebook login, Sociable Labs says
- New Open Graph policy will help Facebook understand affinity
- Facebook integration coming to iPhone and iTunes App Store next week
- Zuckerberg appearance helps propel stock above $20 for first time in 4 weeks
Thursday, September 13
- Ad partners see early promise as Facebook brings FBX retargeting system out of beta
- Facebook overtakes Japanese social network Mixi in Japan
- Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, One Direction and more in this week’s top PTAT gainers among musician/band pages
- Yahoo, Nook, Farmville 2, photo apps and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook hires: design generalist, software engineers, Salesforce developer, analyst, data center technicians and more
- Facebook careers: creative solutions, patent counsel, business operations, data center engineers, program managers, more
- Facebook ends Reach Generator program in favor of Promoted Posts product
Friday, September 14
- Farmville 2, Chase Community Giving, Ustream and more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- China’s Renren social network copies Facebook Timeline
- This week’s updates to the Facebook Marketing Bible
- Facebook platform industry hires: Identified, Kenshoo, ShopIgniter and Webtrends
- Facebook roundup: Blackberry update, patent suit, App Center, studies and more
