This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
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.
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
Monday, June 6th, 2011
- Monday Mobile Roundup: Games, Clinical Trials, Marketing & More
- What Does A Top-Grossing Android Game Make? $640,000 A Month, Says Game Insight
- Apple Says It Has Paid $2.5 Billion to Developers Seen 14 Billion iOS App Downloads
- Apple’s iOS 5 Includes New Notifications, Game Center Upgrades — Good for Apps?
- Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Sports, Puzzles & Classics Show Growth This Week
- ZyngaBrings Hanging With Friends to iOS
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
- Feed Me Oil Shows Off Its Fluidity in Physics on iOS
- Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Feed Me Oil, X-Men, Adventure Games, & More
- RIM Buys Scoreloop as a Streak of Mobile Gaming Network Acquisitions Continues
- OpenFeint Adds Newsfeed-Like Features to Its Mobile-Social Gaming Network
- No iOS 5 Integration, No Credits Deal — The Facebook-Apple Relationship Cools
- Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social Gaming Audience 2011
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
- Wednesday Mobile Roundup: Infinity Blade, iOS 5, Trademarks & More
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Kixeye, Tagged and More
- Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Lite Version Games, Sports & News Grow
- CrowdMob’s Mafia Location Game Harnesses Facebook Places to Drive Downloads
- Q&A: Storm8′s Perry Tam on Cracking $1 Million in Revenue in a Single Day
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
- New Hires in Mobile: Bottle Rocket Apps, EA Mobile, Foursquare, & More
- Take Aim at Devious Rabbits in High Ranked iPhone Game, Bunny Shooter
- Facebook Social Game Developer TheBroth Getting Into Mobile Games
- Icebreaker Hockey Skates Up the Top iPhone Charts
- Craneballs on Its iOS Hit Overkill, Losing Incentivized Installs & Upcoming Game Super Rope
Friday, June 10th, 2011
- Friday Mobile Roundup: Activision, RIM, Messaging & More
- Apple Moves to Intervene, Assist iOS Developers in Lodsys Patent Case
- Twilio Halves SMS Rates as Apple’s iMessage, Other Rivals Raise The Heat in Group Messaging
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, June 6th, 2011
- Army Themed Strategy Games Top This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- Tecmo Koei Gets Into Facebook Games With Cute but Conventional JollyWood
- EA’s Sims Studio & Playfish Bring The Sims to Facebook in The Sims Social
- ZyngaAnnounces Hanging With Friends for iOS
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
- Rivet Games Challenges Copycats With Pet Tales
- RIM Buys Scoreloop as a Streak of Mobile Gaming Network Acquisitions Continues
- TinierCafe Grows on Facebook Through “One Character, Multiple Games” Approach
- Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social Gaming Audience 2011
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
- ‘Villes Bedevil This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by DAU
- Pac-Man for Facebook Provides Virtual Quarter-Swallowing Experience for Retro Arcade Game Fans
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Tagged, Lolapps, King.com, Kixeye and More
- DNA Games Sunsets Casino City, Bar World and Slot City on Facebook Following Zynga Acquisition
- CrowdMob’s Mafia Location Game Harnesses Facebook Places to Drive Downloads
- Infinite Realms Aims to Cater to Hardcore Gamer Crowd with Realistic Graphics and Strong Story
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Cie Games, CrowdStar, Digital Chocolate, & More
- TheBroth’s Planet Domo Gains Growth Through Grind and PvP Mini-Games
- TheBroth Open to Funding for Facebook and MObile Social Games, but Happy to Do Its Own Domo Thing
- Pop Rocket Games Marries Social Sports to Text RPG Genre on Facebook in CopaSocca
Friday, June 10th, 2011
- Planet Domo Tops This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Digital Chocolate’s Marc Metis Explains Army Attack Strategy
- Shadow Fight Brings Stylized Martial Arts Combat to Social Games on Facebook
- Social Gaming Roundup: E3, Zynga, Health, & More
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, June 6th, 2011
- BandPage, VEVO, Friends, Videos, IQ and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU
- Featured Facebook Campaigns: Hot Wheels, New Belgium Brewing, Men’s Health and Women’s Health, Dogs, Callaway Golf and 7-Eleven
- Platform Update: Facebook Removes Pre-Filled Stream Stories, Like Box Configurator Gets Border Color
- Exclusive: Target Facebook Fans for 44% Cheaper Registrations Says TBG Digital Test
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
- YouTube, Tom Cruise, Harry Potter, Katy Perry and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages
- New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Buddy Media, Involver, Syncapse, Vitrue, Wildfire and More
- Core Strategies From Facebook and BrightEdge’s Facebook Page SEO Whitepaper
- Facebook Rolling Out Facial Recognition With Opt Out Privacy Setting That Could Irk Governments
- No iOS 5 Integration, No Credits Deal — The Facebook-Apple Relationship Cools
- WordPress Challenges the Facebook Comments Box by Adding Facebook, Twitter Logins to its Comments Widget
- Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social Gaming Audience 2011
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
- Badoo, Zoosk, Phrases, Horoscopes and Luck on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU
- European Privacy Authorities to Investigate Facebook’s Opt Out Facial Recognition
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Acquinity Interactive, A Bit Lucky, King.com, Tagged and More
- Musicians Test Charging Facebook Credits for Pay-Per-View Concert Streams
- CrowdMob’s Mafia Locations Game Harnesses Facebook Places to Drive Downloads
- Relevvant and Constant Contact Bring TextualAds SMS Signup and Publishing App to Facebook Pages
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
- Facebook Careers Postings: Singapore, São Paulo, Engineering, Marketing, Communication and More
- Facebook Hires and Departures: Interns, Global Brand Partnerships, Operations and More
- How to Build a Customized Facebook Landing Page Using Iframes
- Sequoia-Backed Taykey Mines Trends in Real-Time to Power Cost Per Action Ad Targeting
- MerchantCircle Survey Indicates Plenty of Runway for Facebook Ads Among Local Businesses
- Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet v1.0.5 Adds Video Uploads, Still No Events
- Facebook Hires Team From Sofa, a Dutch Development and Design Company
Friday, June 10th, 2011
- Daily Luck, Videos, Turkey and Profile Statistics on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU
- Facebook Now Reaches 687 Million User — Traffic Trends and Data at Inside Facebook Gold, June 2011 Edition
- Facebook Testing “Happening Now” Column That Could Reduce Home Page Bounces
- Facebook Account Groups Let Agencies Access Multiple Ads Accounts Simultaneously
- Join Inside Facebook’s Josh Constine at the Social Media Marketing Bootcamp
- Facebook Roundup: Sharing, AT&T, Buddy Media, Fusion-io, iOS5, Bing Mobile, Iran, Jobs, The White House, and Iran
