This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 23 to Jan. 27.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Jan. 23
- Emerging top paid iOS apps: Scramble With Friends, Puzzlejuice and monkeys
- Booyah takes on crowded pet genre with Pet Town for iOS
- Exclusive: Microsoft to discontinue its virtual currency system Microsoft Points
Tuesday, Jan. 24
- Producteev’s socializes task management with update for iOS, Android & more
- Arcade classic SoulCalibur slashes through the App Store
- Mojang: It’s really sad when people are trying to be Minecraft when they are not
- Emerging free iOS Apps: SimSimi, Talking Princess and iTunes U
- Hooked Media leans on personalization to make its Android game discovery shine
- Apple reaches a record $46.3 billion in revenue on sales of 37.04M iPhones, 15.43M iPads
- Apple has paid $4 billion to developers over lifetime of its app store
- Apple “actively” discussing $97.6B in cash and equivalents
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Coming in Two Weeks – Feb 8 & 9 in San Francisco
Wednesday, Jan. 25
- Tapjoy says its Android network now reaches 25M users, while it publishes 130 apps
- Gimmie, a new startup from a PopCap developer, ties real-world deals with gameplay
- Atari continues retro remake trend with Breakout: Boost+
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Plumbee, GSN, Mobile Deluxe and more
- Emerging top grossing iOS Apps: Blood & Glory, TurboTax 2011 and Smash Cops
Thursday, Jan. 26
- PyramidVille Adventure for iOS brings citybuilding to the desert
- Nokia confirms more than 1 million Lumia Windows Phones sold, posts $1.4 billion loss
- New Hires in Mobile: Big Fish Games, Tapjoy and Kontagent
- Distimo finds features and sales are more effective on Android rankings than on iOS
- Here are the best-performing Chinese Android app stores for one of the country’s top developers
Friday, Jan. 27
- Mobile Marketing Association unveils free, generic privacy policy for mobile developers
- Emerging Android Apps: SPB Shell 3D, Galaxy and Grabatron
- Google’s Admob adds automatic conversion tracking for mobile ad campaigns
- iMob 2 adds strong community features to well-worn text RPG gameplay
- Amazon’s Kindle Fire is even with Samsung in engagement on Android tablets
- International Mobile Gaming Awards nominees announced, category for Best Mobile-Social Game added
- Mobile app roundup: Apple, Samsung and Amazon
Saturday, Jan. 28
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Jan. 23
- Hidden Chronicles, Words With Friends top this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Trivia Adventure blends roleplaying, quiz and board game mechanics into one intriguing package
Tuesday, Jan. 24
- Vostu’s World Mysteries taking on Hidden Chronicles for hidden object supremacy
- King.com expands to Google+ with Bubble Witch Saga
- Inside Social Apps 2012 Is Coming in Two Weeks – Feb 8 & 9 in San Francisco
Wednesday, Jan. 25
- Hidden Chronicles, Tetris Battle top this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- BMW xDrive Challenge demonstrates what advergames, racing games can do on Facebook
- Location-based RPG Parallel Kingdom hits Facebook
- Angry Birds finally coming to Facebook on Valentines Day
- Miscrits of Volcano Island gives fans a new world in which to “catch them all”
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Addmired, TubeMogul, Lolapps and more
Thursday, Jan. 26
- Digital Chocolate’s newest strategy title Galaxy Life sees steady growth since November launch
- Zynga Bingo enters closed beta today
- RockYou’s Galactic Allies shows declining MAU despite strong core gamer strategy action
- New Hires in Social Gaming: EA Playfish, Kixeye and Zynga
- Facebook game categories make it easier to identify games, but not to find them
Friday, Jan. 27
- Kabam acquires Fearless Studios, home of Force Unleashed developer Haden Blackman
- Risk: Factions leads this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- THQ’s Margaritaville Online takes players on a tropical island adventure
- EA’s Earner leaving for Accel
- CyberAgent’s quarterly social game sales climb to $41.7 million
- Social gaming news roundup: Amazon, Tagged and DeNA
Saturday, Jan. 28
Sunday, Jan. 29
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Jan. 23
- Facebook expands Questions API
- Open Graph, tabs, birthdays, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
Tuesday, Jan. 24
- Open Graph apps: what’s there, what’s next
- Zynga, Xbox, Adele, ‘Titanic,’ Angry Birds, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Coming in Two Weeks
Wednesday, Jan. 25
- What Open Graph means for marketers
- Yahoo, Netflix, Pinterest, Spotify, WashPo, cards, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: GREE, Spooky Cool Labs, Tapjoy and more
- Facebook gaining edge with journalists using subscribe
Thursday, Jan. 26
- Facebook hires and departures: counsel, editing, engineering, product management, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, ad ops, communications, user ops, more
- Facebook Platform Update: subscriptions, search, notifications
- Open Graph issues inhibit past-tense sharing, force apps to make trade-offs
- Facebook tests 7 ads on single page
Friday, Jan. 27
- Shufflr, Netflix, ‘Twilight,’ dating, tabs, sweepstakes, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Santorum makes gains following debate this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Facebook is in the final stages of preparing an IPO filing
- Facebook beta plugin turns any website into an Open Graph app
- Facebook Roundup: EU Privacy, economic impact, games, Google, security, more
Saturday, Jan. 28
