Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
- Monday Mobile Roundup: Foursquare-INQ, EFF’s Call to Apple & More
- Emerging Paid iOS Apps: New Content Breaths New Life Into Older Apps
- Apple Responds to Lodsys Threats, Says Developers Are Protected
- Casey’s Contraptions Rises Up iPad App Charts
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
- Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Top Paid Apps Fill the Top Grossing List
- Microsoft Releases New Developers Tools for Windows Phone
- Nexon KartRider Rush Breaks Through 2 Million Downloads in 10 Weeks
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
- TinyCo Launches $5 Million Fund To Finance Games From Third-Party Developers
- Simogo Brings a Bit of Charm to iOS With Bumpy Road
- Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: High Noon, iQuarterback & More
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: TinyCo, PopCap Games, Roblox and More
- PopCap’s Second 4th & Battery Title, Candy Train, is Both Colorful and Challenging
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
- New Hires in Mobile: EA Mobile, Gameloft, Glu Mobile & More
- Building a Better Hospital With Game Insight’s Social-Mobile Title, My Clinic on iPad
- With Google Wallet, How Much Potential Will There Be For Third-Party Developers
- Room For Both The Familiar And The Unexpected in Glu’s Summer Lineup
Friday, May 27th, 2011
- Glue Boosts Second-Quarter Earnings Guidance, Stops Accounting for Incentivized Install Revenue
- Paypal-Google Lawsuit Reveals More About How Android Market Deal Went Awry
- Amazon Wants to Hire Game Designer to Create Mobile Social Games
- Friday Mobile Roundup: Margaritas, Lodsys Redux, iPhone 4 & More
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
- GagaVille Pushes FarmVille Toward the Top of This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- CrowdStar Secures $23 Million Series A Funding From Intel, Time Warner, The9
- Rocket Ninja Seeing Retention Rise After Launching 3D Mode in Wrestler: Unstoppable
- “Facebook + Games” Equals a New Effort by Facebook to Communicate With Game Industry
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
- Rocket Ninja’ Shr3d Engine Provides Boost in Social Gaming 3D Arms Race
- Richard Garriott’s 3D Portalarium Plugin Appears in A Mystical Land
- Hero’s Blend of City-Building and Adventure Sees Steady MAU Growth but Variable DAU
- Report: Zynga Filing for IPO This Week of Next Week
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
- Deep Realms Doing Something on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by DAU
- Peak Games Finds Growth In Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, Secures $5 Million in Funding
- Nival North America to Bring Russian Strategy PC Series King’s Bounty to Facebook
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: 6waves, AdParlor, Kixeye and More
- Fortune Creek Poker Gives Card Sharks a Place to Visit Instead of a Game to Play
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Cie Games, CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate, & More
- Facebook Announces PayPal Payouts to Developers for Credit Revenue
- It’s Official: Kabam Announces $85M Fourth Round of Funding
- Tagged Looks to In-House Social Game Development for New Growth
- Trials of Elsword Experiments With Demoing A Full MMOG on Facebook
Friday, May 27th, 2011
- King.com’s Bingo Adventure Appears on This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- LOLapps Side-Steps Sequels With Franchise Expansion in Ravenshire Castle
- Glu Boosts Second-Quarter Earnings Guidance, Stops Accounting for Incentivized Install Revenue
- Amazon Wants to Hire Game Designer to Create Facebook and Mobile Social Games
- Social Gaming Roundup: THQ, Supercell, Sim City, & More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
- Pages, Music, Badoo, Videos and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Lancôme, Nivea, Cost Plus World Market, Allstate, Budweiser and Axe
- USA Network’s Chatter Aggregates Conversations About TV Shows From Facebook and More
- Platform Update: PHP SDK 3.0.0 Arrives, Client-Side Re-Authentication, & More
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
- Bruno Mars, Subway, Turkey, Disney, Vin Diesel and Converse on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Efficient Frontier, Involver, Vitrue, Wildfire and More
- Facebook No Longer Blocking Comments for (Most) Pharmaceutical Pages
- Facebook Adds “Subscribe Via RSS” Option to Pages
- New Facebook Feature Has Users Post Recommended Pages to Wall, News Feed
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
- Chase Giving, Luck, Astrology, Mobile, BandPage and More on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU
- Report: A More Official Spotify-Facebook Partnership Is Coming Soon
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Context Optional, AdParlor, PopCap Games and More
- ShopIgniter CEO Matt Compton on Raising $8M and the Growth of Ecommerce on Facebook
- Facebook Ecommerce: What Features Are Important in a Page Storefront Application
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Account Management, Creative and More
- Facebook Careers Postings: Singapore, Recruiting, Engineering and More
- Facebook Announces PayPal Payouts to Developers for Credits Revenue
- BandRx: A Free Page Management App for Musicians That Matches Facebook’s Design
Friday, May 27th, 2011
- Friends, Photos, Videos, Weddings and More on This Week’s Top 2- Emergin Facebook Apps by MAU
- A New Facebook Lobbying Team Emerges to Match Increasing Political Scrutiny
- Facebook Platform Update: New Token Requirements, Photo and Video Graph APIs
- Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Europe, Mobile, Minors, Travel, Trading, Legal, Capital and Profanity
Source: Inside Social Games
Sunday, May 29, 2011