This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between July 2 and 7.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, July 2
- Burn up the quarter-mile with NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing
- Chrome, CSR Racing and Clear Vision and more on this week’s top free iOS apps
Tuesday, July 3
- Brain training down on the farm with Ninja Ranch
- TinyCo: Android retention and average revenue per paying user can be 25 to 40 percent higher than on iOS
- Google I/O: 10 rules to follow if you want your app featured on Google Play
- Fiksu nets $10 million series B for European, Asian expansion
- Where’s my Perry, Temple Run: Brave, Dead Trigger and more on this week’s top paid iOS apps
- EA’s Strike Fortress proves HTML5 can deliver a social cross-platform action game
Thursday, July 5
- The monster hordes are back in Kingdom Rush
- 6waves is bringing Ravenwood Fair to mobile
- New hires in mobile: 6waves, InMobi and Storm8
- CSR Racing, The Amazing Spider-Man, Hipstamatic and more on this week’s top grossing iOS apps
Friday, July 6
- Conquer the world from your pocket with Mini Empires
- Where’s My Perry?, The Amazing Spider-Man and more on this week’s Android app charts
- Mobile app news roundup: iOS Trojans, Call of Duty goes mobile and Big Fish Games’ cloud
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, July 2
- Bubble Safari leads this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Band Stars review
- Former Digital Chocolate Vice President Manel Sort to head King.com’s new Barcelona studio
- Top 25 Facebook games of July 2012
Tuesday, July 3
Wednesday, July 4
Thursday, July 5
- Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM review
- 6waves is bringing Ravenwood Fair to mobile
- New hires in social gaming: Gaia Interactive, Spil Games and Wooga
Friday, July 6
- Foreign language games all over this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Jewel Kingdom review
- Social games news roundup: Call of Duty storms China, SongPop gets premium mobile version and Indian users get Facebook games
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, July 2
- TripAdvisor applies lessons from its other popular apps to new Local Picks restaurant review app
- TripAdvisor, Bubble Safari, Terra, Chill, Hootsuite, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook says bug caused wrong contact syncing on some users’ phones
Tuesday, July 3
Thursday, July 5
Friday, July 6
