This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Jan. 14 and Jan. 18.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Jan. 14
- Find your next meal with Foodspotting
- 15,000 app submissions for BlackBerry 10 in 37 hours
- Ruzzle, Amazing Ants, eBay and more on this week’s top free mobile apps charts
Tuesday, Jan. 15
- SponsorPay grows by 126% in 2012
- Take in a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic
- Former Funzio executives return at the helm of Wormhole Games
- Minecraft: Pocket Edition downloaded more than 280,000 times on Christmas Day, more than 5.8 million times in 2012
- PlayMesh changes their name to Quark Games
- Wood Camera, Joe Danger, My Backup Pro and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, Jan. 16
- Digisocial adds audio functionality to the social sharing scene
- Kiip, Interpublic enter strategic partnership
- The Inside Network Job Board: Twitter, KIXEYE, SponsorPay and more
- Enjoy a fleeting moment with Snapchat
- New hires in mobile apps: Gloops, Wooga and more
- Candy Crush Saga, Kno Textbooks, and Ruzzle on this week’s top grossing apps charts
Thursday, Jan. 17
- App discovery service AppGratis raises $13.5M in Series A funding, delivers up to 700,000 installs for app developers
- Exclusive: Nexus 7 monetizes better than other Android tablets, says TinyCo
- Chat about the world’s weather with Wezzoo
- Amazing Ants surpasses 1M installs in one week, ranks in the top 5 on the top free iPad apps chart
Friday, Jan. 18
- Create and share impressive photo slideshows with Ptch
- Mobile news roundup: DeNA’s NFL deal, TinyCo’s new title and Temple Run 2
- Messaging app Line surpasses 100M users in 19 months
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Jan. 14
- Reign of Conquerors (iOS) review
- CrayonPixel’s Atlas Raider aims to deliver board game experience for both casual and midcore players
- Bips review
Tuesday, Jan. 15
- Exploding Barrel Games is Kabam’s first acquisition of 2013
- SponsorPay grows by 126% in 2012
- Former Funzio executives return at the helm of Wormhole Games
- Amazing Ants (iOS) review
- Sega partners with Gogogic for cross-platform Godsrule: War of Mortals
Wednesday, Jan. 16
- Animal Blitz review
- Former Zynga GM Jonathan Flesher joins Betable team
- The Inside Network Job Board: Twitter, KIXEYE, SponsorPay and more
- New hires in social games: Akamon, Gloops and Wooga
- QuizCross (iOS) review
Thursday, Jan. 17
- King.com’s cross-platform mobile launches lead to company’s best traffic ever, more “Saga” games going mobile
- The Last One review
- Amazing Ants surpasses 1M installs in one week, ranks in the top 5 on the top free iPad apps chart
- Final Fantasy: All The Bravest (iOS) review
Friday, Jan. 18
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Jan. 14
- Facebook gives links more prominence in News Feed with 3x larger image preview
- Facebook builds knowledge graph with info modules on community pages
Tuesday, Jan. 15
- Facebook announces Graph Search, a new way to find people, photos, places and things on the social network
- How marketers can use Facebook’s Graph Search to understand consumers
- Facebook makes recommendation stories in the feed more visual
Wednesday, Jan. 16
- Graph Search: a recommendation engine only Facebook could power
- Platform industry hires: Ampush, Nanigans, Nimble and Syncapse
- 9GAG, AMC The Walking Dead Social Game, Hay Day and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for app pages
- Graph Search gives users insights about their followers
- Free voice calling rolls out to U.S. Facebook users with iOS Messenger
Thursday, Jan. 17
- Instagram announces 90M monthly active users, other usage milestones
- How Graph Search can help users see the world through different lenses
Friday, Jan. 18
- Facebook hires: mobile program manager, application engineer, space planner, more
- Facebook careers: ecosystem measurement manager, security program manager, presentation designer, more
- Facebook for Android update allows more flexible sharing, adds voice messages
- Facebook cuts off ‘find friends’ access for Voxer; policy vague on how other messaging apps will be treated
- Facebook roundup: Bing social search, PMD policies, Open Compute Summit, more
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
- Google Zavers aims squarely for mobile coupon, loyalty card startups
- Review: Updated eBay iPhone app virtually masters the selling process
- Groupon continues physical goods pivot acquiring CommerceInterface over the holidays
- Mobile loyalty app shopkick profitable with 4 million users
- eBay earns 4 billion last quarter with mobile leading the way
- Personal.com launches Fill It data service, may help curb abandoned virtual carts
