This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Mar. 26 to Apr. 1
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Mar. 26
- GREE’s second North American title sees players nurturing an Alien Family
- Emerging free iOS Apps: The Hunger Games, Geared and Ninjago: Rise of the Snakes
- What Apple’s UDID phase out means to the iOS ecosystem
Tuesday, Mar. 27
- Apsalar introduces even more advanced user segmenting analytics
- Castle Age comes to iOS with gorgeous art but well-worn gameplay
- Millennial amends S-1: Now reaches 300 million users, target share price upped to $11-$13
- Addmired nets $8 million Series B, changes name to Machine Zone
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Angry Birds dethrones Draw Something
- Adobe allies with Unity for Flash Player 11.2 release, introduces premium APIs
Wednesday, Mar. 28
- The Playforge remains independent as it branches out with Tree World
- On the run with Katniss in The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire
- Apple saves print media? Newsstand applications earning $70,000 a day on iPad
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: East Side Games, Sojo, BrightRoll and more
- Only two percent of Android apps use in-app purchases
- Emerging top grossing iOS Apps: Angry Birds Space, Galaxy Empire and Tap Paradise Cove
Thursday, Mar. 29
- Escape from the 35 rooms with DOOORS
- Kontagent forms alliance, releases API to standardize mobile advertising
- New hires in mobile: Gameloft, GREE and PayPal
- User acquisition costs rise as Apple’s bot crackdown drops downloads, says Fiksu
- Ngmoco’s chief publishing officer resigns
Friday, Mar. 30
- Crytek brings its graphical prowess to iOS with Fibble
- Millennial’s Media’s shares hit $25, but dip on second day of trading
- Kontagent adds funnels and custom dashboards to its mobile analytics
- Google Play delivers a quarter of the revenues Apple and Amazon do, says Flurry
- Bird-free physics puzzling in space with Gravity Fleet
- Mobile App News Roundup: DeNA, Rovio and RIM
Saturday, Mar. 31
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Mar. 26
- Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers mixes hidden object gameplay and wildlife education on Facebook
- Zynga Slingo tops the list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Build, grow and produce with Township
Tuesday, Mar. 27
- Mob Science raises $1M in funding, preps mid-core RPG for launch on Zynga.com
- Ludia invites players to “come on down” for The Price Is Right Slots
- Adobe allies with Unity for Flash Player 11.2 release, introduces premium APIs
Wednesday, Mar. 28
- CelebrityMe wants to bring out players’ inner stars on Facebook
- RockYou settles with FTC over security flaw charges
- Zynga Slingo wins again with this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Two genres collide in Vostu’s Flying Kingdoms
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: MachineZone, Bally, PT Gaming and more
- 6waves drops “Lolapps” name entirely, announces publishing deals with 32 social developers
Thursday, Mar. 29
- Fling a Thing brings physics-based bug-twanging to Facebook
- Zynga execs selling over 20M shares in secondary offering
- New hires in social gaming: Akamon Entertainment, Double Down Interactive and Zynga
- Rocket Ninja moves away from games, focuses on 3D ‘lightweight dating’
Friday, Mar. 30
- Galaxy Online II warps atop this week’s emerging games list
- Scream if you want to go faster with Rollercoaster Mania
- The Hunger Games Adventures aims for the adventure game bullseye on Facebook
- Social games news roundup: Martha Stewart, Disney and Gangs of Boomtown
Saturday, Mar. 31
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Mar. 26
- Draw Something, Rotten Tomatoes, Cities I’ve Visited, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- App aims to simplify Facebook ad offerings, lets advertisers visualize ‘premium’ units
- ‘Offers’ on Facebook exclusive to premium advertisers for now, will be free for all pages later this year
- Facebook expands Sponsored Stories in News Feed with image, more social context
- Mediabistro’s Facebook Marketing Boot Camp Happening This Week
- Facebook adds contact form to ad dashboard, aims to respond in 4 hours
Tuesday, Mar. 27
- Clickable releases new dashboard tool to visualize Facebook, search campaign performance
- ‘Hunger Games,’ LMFAO, Miracle-Gro, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- Facebook reminds page owners of pages they haven’t posted to lately
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagent, TBG Digital, BranchOut
- Users spent more than 10.5B total minutes per day on Facebook in January, not including mobile use
- Facebook amends S-1 filing to note Yahoo patent suit, Ceglia updates
Wednesday, Mar. 28
- Zynga, Draw Something, Cities I’ve Visited, ESPN, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook now features app activity more prominently on Timeline
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Spruce Media, W3i, OfferPop and more
- Facebook gives permalinks to individual comments, hides potential spam
Thursday, Mar. 29
- ReverbNation adds feature to let artists compare their Facebook ad campaigns to those in similar genres
- Facebook to adjust calculations for total check-ins displayed on place pages
- Facebook tests simpler interface for creating ads, targeting users
- Facebook hires: privacy, public policy, data centers, mobile, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, London, account management, more
Friday, Mar. 30
- Local Facebook pages outperform corporate pages in terms of reach, engagement percentage, study finds
- Price Is Right, Pose, Change.org, Amex, hi5, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Why Timeline engagement ‘studies’ should be ignored
- Romney leads, Gingrich loses fans, plus new insights from Timeline this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Facebook roundup: platform updates, trading, IPO, Google, more
Saturday, Mar. 31
