This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between May 8 and June 2.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, May 28
Tuesday, May 29
- Fiksu: iOS app download volume down 8% year-on-year, but user acquisition costs rise
- Bug-chomping fun with Glow Bugs
- Urban Airship: incorporating push notifications improved Airbnb’s booking speed 8x
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Palm Reading Booth, Angry Birds Space and Monopoly for iPad
Wednesday, May 30
- Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage
- Catch, breed and feed with Monster Park
- Zooz offers unified solution for PayPal, credit cards and carrier billing
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- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: DragonVale, Dragon Story and Slotomatia
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Activision, King.com, Wooga and more
Thursday, May 31
- Pets in your pocket with Mobbles
- GREE bringing $26M-a-month-earning card battle game Driland to North America
- How to double user retention with push notifications: Urban Airship shares best practices
- New hires in mobile: Gloops, NaturalMotion and Tylted
- Emerging popular Android apps: Monster Park, Songify and Rebuild
Friday, June 1
- Rule the high seas with Sid Meier’s Pirates, now for iPhone
- Stomp, roar and burn with Dragon Evolution
- WeottaGo reinvents local with smart data intelligence
- It looks like Zynga’s newest mobile game is Zynga Slots
- Mobile app news roundup: 46 million iOS apps a day, 300 million Fruit Ninjas and 100,000 Angry Birds credit cards
Saturday, June 2
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Sunday, May 27
Monday, May 28
Tuesday, May 29
- Zynga Bingo tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Former Zynga CTO of Mobile Laurent Desegur goes to Game Closure
- RocketFrog review
- You Don’t Know Jack is now live on Facebook
Wednesday, May 30
- Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage
- bwin.party sets aside $50 million for social games, creates Win studio
- Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research
- Seaside Hideaway review
- Zynga Bingo scores big, wins this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
Thursday, May 31
- Bubble Witch Saga is both this week’s gainer and loser among May’s Top 25 games
- You Don’t Know Jack review
- New hires in social gaming: TrialPay, Adparlor and GameHouse
Friday, June 1
- Buffalo Studios partners with the Riviera for Bingo Blitz integration, Las Vegas bingo tournament
- Arabic-language “Guerilla” sneaks to the top of this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Baseball Heroes review
- Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012
- Social games news roundup: Kixeye resurrects 3 Blokes, Monster Galaxy expands and Russia gets even bigger
Saturday, June 2
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Tuesday, May 29
- Socialcam, quizzes, Yahoo, Pinterest, games, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Asking for Open Graph app permissions: Involver shares best practices following success of Ad Meter campaign
- Facebook introduces ‘trending videos’ module in News Feed, redesigns ‘trending articles’ layout
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Buddy Media, Wildfire, Kontagent, Identified, BranchOut
- Facebook shares fall to $28.84 on first day of options trading
- Facebook for Every Phone, Snaptu, Facebook Marketing, Kobe Bryant, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
Wednesday, May 30
- Facebook tests button within mobile News Feed to drive users to native Instagram app
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- Facebook rolls out ‘promote’ button to more U.S. pages, provides details on how it works
- 21 Questions, Socialcam, Shufflr, Zynga, mobile, horoscopes, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Facebook expands mobile Sponsored Stories to include recent post and call to action
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SocialDealer and more
Thursday, May 31
- Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access
- Facebook allows post scheduling directly from pages without third-party tools
- New Facebook guidelines require news and video apps to wait at least 10 seconds before publishing user activity
- Facebook hires: investor relations, engineering, business development, more
- Facebook career postings: data center, engineering, mobile, more
Friday, June 1
- Video, photos, House MD, smileys, Chinese music, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook puts proposed policy changes up to a vote following activist campaign
- Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012
- Complete walkthrough of Facebook’s mobile Pages Manager app
- Facebook roundup: Outages, Apple, HQ, hackers, awards, Ceglia, Bing and more
Saturday, June 2
