This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Nov. 19 and Nov. 24.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Nov. 19
- Present and share with SlideShark
- GREE to shut down OpenFeint on December 14
- Hill Climb Racing, Black Friday, Candy Crush Saga and more on this week’s top free mobile apps
Tuesday, Nov. 20
- Say it with photos, text and drawings in Honk
- Jim Ying joins GREE as new VP of Developer Relations and Publishing
- Aeria mobile launches Magimon on iOS
- Sony launches PlayStation Mobile Developer Program for all developers
- Mixpanel launches Activity Feed to help understand individual user activity
- Bloons, JotNot, FoxFi and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, Nov. 21
- The Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Tetris, Velocidi and more
- Drive engagement with Glyder’s rich content
- Clash of Clans, Shipwrecked, The Hobbit and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
- New hires in mobile apps: GREE, Wooga, and Social Point
Thursday, Nov. 22
Friday, Nov. 23
- SessionM’s Lars Albright discusses the state of mobile ads
- Mobile news roundup: Black Friday, Skylanders, DeNA and more
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Nov. 19
- Ruby Blast (iOS) review
- CityVille 2 sees population boom among fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-Earth (iOS, Android) review
Tuesday, Nov. 20
- Aeria mobile launches Magimon on iOS
- Jim Ying joins GREE as new VP of Developer Relations and Publishing
- Zynga shuts down Indiana Jones Adventure World
- Full Bloom review
- Amazon announces free Unity plugins for mobile apps
- Disney Interactive reveals Thanksgiving social game sale
- QatQi (iOS) review
Wednesday, Nov. 21
- Blood Brothers (iOS, Android) review
- The Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Tetris, Velocidi and more
- Bookie Mania review
- CityVille 2 continues to top fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New hires in social game: Akamon, Social Point and Wooga
Thursday, Nov. 22
Friday, Nov. 23
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Nov. 19
- Cityville 2, TripAdvisor, Pet Rescue Saga, Call of Duty and more on this week’s top 20 Facebook apps growing by MAU
- Facebook brings photo-syncing to iOS
Tuesday, Nov. 20
- Analytics company Socialbakers raises $6M
- Facebook suggests upcoming events and recently released albums in News Feed
- Data visualization company SumAll raises $6M, including $500K for charity foundation
Wednesday, Nov. 21
- Platform industry hires: Adknowledge picks up 4, Syncapse forms advisory board
- Kit Kat, P&G, Pet Centric and others among this week this week’s PTAT gainers for product and service pages
- The Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Tetris, Velocidi and more
- Orange telecom announces partnership with Facebook to launch social calling app
- Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, end to site governance voting
Thursday, Nov. 22
Friday, Nov. 23
- Report: Facebook Exchange seen as key influence on real-time bidding growth
- Facebook hires: machine learning engineer, direct response specialist, SMB growth analyst and more
- Facebook careers: investigator, executive protection leader, BI engineer, SMB growth associates, client partners, more
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
- Interview: Sephora on its Black Friday plans, social media success
- Interview: loyalty start-up Belly invades San Francisco, pushes Small Business Saturday
- Shopping site Lish launches weekly deals in time for Black Friday, Cyber Monday
- Etsy Does Holiday Pop-Up Store in Manhattan, Streamlines E-Commerce for Cyber Monday
- Shop from your phone with Rakuten’s Play.com app
