This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Mar. 19 to Mar. 24
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Mar. 19
- Apple to spend $45 billion on dividends, share buybacks
- Emerging free iOS Apps: Air Wings, Zombie Jombie and Lowe’s Creative Ideas
- Flight Control Rocket takes Firemint’s classic to the stars
- Inside Mobile Apps is hiring
- Exclusive: 6waves Lolapps cuts development staff, focuses exclusively on publishing
Tuesday, Mar. 20
- Warheads Medieval Tales offers familiar fantasy fun
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation, Goodreader and iPhoto
- 44 percent of mobile games played at home according to MoPub, Miniclip
- $75 eCPM? Some developers are seeing it with PlayHaven
- Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social and Mobile Gaming Audience 2012, Is Here
Wednesday, Mar. 21
- Red Robot enters Asia with $5 million investment from Taiwan’s Next Media
- Zombie Panic in Wonderland brings WiiWare hit to iOS
- Emerging top grossing iOS Apps: Galaxy Empire, The Daily and Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy
- Gameloft’s earnings rise 17% to $217 million in 2011
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: BrightRoll, Legacy Games, King.com and more
- Zynga acquires OMGPOP
- Zynga New York split into Mobile, Social studios with OMGPOP acquisition — gearing up for mobile publishing
Thursday, Mar. 22
- Angry Birds Space rockets to the top of the App Store charts in over 28 countries
- Announcing the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit – Coming June 26th in San Francisco
- New hires in mobile: Gameloft, Tap.me and Thumb
- Emerging top grossing Android apps: Draw Something, Draw Something and Draw Something
Friday, Mar. 23
- Angry Birds Space: out of this world or crash and burn?
- The9 sees revenues increase, reports net loss of $45.2 million in 2011
- As The9 sees its mobile business grow, competition heats up
- Mobile app news roundup: Apple, Kiip and Path
Saturday, Mar. 24
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Mar. 19
- Exclusive: 6waves Lolapps cuts development staff, focuses exclusively on publishing
- Dungeon Rampage battles across Facebook
- Angry Birds still leading flock of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
Tuesday, Mar. 20
- The Supernauts aiming for super-stardom on iOS and Facebook
- Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social and Mobile Gaming Audience 2012, Is Here
- 5th Planet Games acquires To Be Continued LLC
- Zynga Slingo blends two of the hottest game genres on Facebook for a simple, addictive experience
- Two years later, Backyard Monsters continues to thrive on Facebook
Wednesday, Mar. 21
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: High 5 Games, Legacy Games, King.com and more
- Zynga Slingo wins big with this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Soul Crash brings over-the-top anime-style combat to your Facebook friends list
- Zynga acquires OMGPOP
- Zynga New York split into Mobile, Social studios with OMGPOP acquisition — gearing up for mobile publishing
Thursday, Mar. 22
- Lucky Slots provides polished but predictable slot machine action
- Plumbee announces funding, launches Mirrorball Slots on Facebook
- New hires in social gaming: GameHouse, Game Insight and Nordeus
Friday, Mar. 23
- Facebook pushes Credits promotion with in-game units for first-time payers
- SEC filing confirms OMGPOP’s $180 million price tag
- Foreign language games permeate this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Take to the social skies with Aviator
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Mar. 19
- Facebook provides more insights about referral traffic for mobile apps
- Draw Something, Angry Birds, Rotten Tomatoes, Trip Advisor, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook app by MAU
- NPR seeks to help media organizations geotarget Facebook content at scale
- Facebook redesigns permalinks to match Timeline, adds buttons for Like, subscribe
Tuesday, Mar. 20
- Facebook prompts some users to return to non-game apps
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Adaptly, AdParlor, TBG Digital, BranchOut, Banyan Branch
- Adele, Kakà, Thailand, Intel, Jeremy Lin, Will Smith, Bruno Mars, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
Wednesday, Mar. 21
- Draw Something, WashPo, Yahoo, Rotten Tomatoes, iPad, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook faces another patent suit
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Nickelodeon, King.com and more
- Will Twitter integrate Facebook Open Graph?
Thursday, Mar. 22
- Facebook to reduce image sizes, lower character count for body copy in ads
- Facebook tool helps users divide friends from acquaintances, clean out News Feed
- Facebook to implement fullscreen, hi-res photo viewing
- Facebook hires and departures: community engagement, engineering, mobile ops
- Facebook career postings: engineers, mobile, games, legal, more
- Facebook social reader app contributes to record traffic for U.K. news site
- Confirmed: Facebook buys patents from IBM
Friday, Mar. 23
- Facebook pushes Credits promotion with in-game units for first-time payers
- Friends, Digg, Gogobot, Hey Tell, tabs, games, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook logout ad price equal to takeovers on other sites; advertisers still question value
- The Facebook Marketing Bible: New and Improved for March 2012
- Facebook roundup: password privacy, IPO, engineering, Hacker Cup, more
Saturday, Mar. 24
