A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Feb. 25 and March. 1.

Inside Mobile Apps

Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.

Monday, Feb. 25

• Keep up with the world with the 6 in 1 News Clock Radio Set
• Guest Post: Software patents are broken, and it’s hurting our economy
• TV ads pushes Puzzle & Dragons to 9 million users
• Agenda and speakers announced for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• Event Book offers a new view of your iOS calendar
• Plants vs. Zombies, Oscars, The Simpsons: Tapped Out and more on this week’s top paid app charts

Tuesday, Feb. 26

• Prepare your PDFs for editing with Able2Doc
• Reminder: Inside Network and KIXEYE’s gaming panel and networking event is Thursday, Feb. 28
• Google announces Google+ Sign-In
• The Inside Network Job Board: Machine Zone, KIXEYE, Kongregate more
• Major Magnet, Wheel of Fortune, SwiftKey 3 Tablet Keyboard and more on this week’s top paid app charts
• Note it down and keep it safe with Write for iOS

Wednesday, Feb. 27

• Fiksu: Holidays still impacting mobile advertising, iOS downloads increased by 13% in January
• Apple Passbook more than triples accepted MLB stadium tickets
• Guest Post: Clash of Clans engagement analysis
• Make your choice with Seesaw
• MLB, Plague, Megapolis and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
• Social video-sharing trend continues with Keek
• New hires in mobile: DeNA, Plumbee and Game Insight

Thursday, Feb. 28

• Guest Post: 5 tips from SessionM on how developers can turn average users into power users
• Scopely partners with five studios for developer network, including Double Fine
• GDC survey of developers finds interest in mobile greater than consoles
• Manage your inbox with Cloze
• Explore the world of the visual arts with Artfinder
• Web-based Command and Conquer: Tiberium Alliances heads to mobile

Friday, March 1

• Check in to your TV screen with TVcheck
• EA’s Nick Earl on the transition to free-to-play, relationships with mobile platforms and core gamers on tablets
• Reaction videos made easy with Moment Catcher
• Inside mobile news roundup: Indies, Rovio partners with DreamWorks, Chilingo partners with Samsung
• Mobile apps news roundup: Mobile World Congress 2013 edition

Inside Social Games

Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.

Monday, Feb. 25

• Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary (iOS) review
• Zynga closes Baltimore studio, consolidates Texas, New York offices
• Agenda and speakers announced for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• Bwin.party’s first social game, Slots Craze, debuts on iOS and Facebook
• FarmVille 2 returns to the top of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
• Diamond Duel review

Tuesday, Feb. 26

• Dragon Up (iOS) review
• Sega’s Godsrule enters open beta
• Reminder: Inside Network and KIXEYE’s gaming panel and networking event is Thursday, Feb. 28
• The Inside Network Job Board: Machine Zone, KIXEYE, Kongregate more
• SupersonicAds aims to make social/mobile game advertising more manageable with Ultra server
• FishPro review

Wednesday, Feb. 27

• Slots Craze review
• Arabic-language Happy Farm sports winning crop among fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
• Playdemic appoints Ian Livingstone as Chairman
• Gun Bros 2 (iOS) review
• Disney Mobile’s Toy Story: Smash It! launches
• New hires in social games: Plumbee, Game Insight and Playdemic

Thursday, Feb. 28

• Real Racing 3 (iOS) review
• Scopely partners with five studios for developer network, including Double Fine
• GDC survey of developers finds interest in mobile greater than consoles
• Toys”R”Us Towers coming to iOS
• Bubble Origins review

Friday, March 1

• Celebrity Slots review
• What Kristian Segrestrale’s departure could mean for EA’s social game plan
• CivWorld shutting down
• Kixeye/Inside Network panel: Unity vs. Unreal for the next generation of browser-based games
• Bubble Land leads this week’s emerging Facebook games
• Toy Story: Smash It! (iOS/Android) review
• Social games news roundup: War Cluster, Car Town and Pocket Tanks

Inside Facebook

Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.

• Facebook reduces image sizes for some page post ads
• Facebook partners with mobile carriers to offer free data for Facebook messaging
• Agenda and speakers announced for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• Facebook tries new designs for mobile page-Like and app install ads
• Facebook updates iOS SDK to help developers track conversions

• Facebook suggests users give gifts to friends with good news
• Facebook rewrites Like Box to load faster
• Instagram announces 100M active users
• Facebook platform industry hires: Nanigans, Shoutlet, Social Moov

Wednesday, Feb. 27

• Facebook announces data partnerships to help advertisers target users by offline purchases and attributes
• C&A, Foot Locker, Spencer’s and others top PTAT gainers for retail and consumer merchandise pages
• Facebook hires: head of policy Japan, SMB marketing, creative strategist and more
• Facebook careers: Graph Search, agency relations, marketing solutions and more

Thursday, Feb. 28

• Facebook shares its ‘favorite ways’ people use Graph Search
• Facebook tests yet another variation of Timeline
• Facebook agrees to acquire Microsoft Atlas
• Facebook temporarily reveals ‘returned value’ metric for ads

Friday, March 1

• Facebook recommends deals in new ‘My Offers’ section
• Facebook to reveal ‘new look’ for News Feed next week
• Facebook tests new ‘rated’ action for books and other content in Open Graph apps
• Facebook roundup: Code.org, same-sex marriage, Gifts, SocialCode and more

Inside Social Commerce

Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.

• Infographic: People mostly use mobile phones at home, primarily to research products
• Agenda and speakers announced for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• Price alert Clipix adds email clippings
• Apple Passbook more than triples accepted MLB stadium tickets
• PayPal joins Coinstar machines in another brick-and-mortar push
• Groupon fires CEO Andrew Mason after another quarterly loss