This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Jan. 9 to Jan. 14.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, January 9
- Moblyng’s Shutdown: Enthusiasm For HTML5 Gaming is Still a Little Premature
- Emerging top paid iOS apps: Angry Birds, Phraseology, LostWinds
- Gamevil’s Zenonia Series Enters the HD Age with Fourth Installment
Tuesday, January 10
- Half of The Time U.S. Consumers Spend in Mobile Apps is With Games
- New Tapjoy Partnership Brings Incentivized Phone Calls to Offer Walls
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: NBA Game Time, Slotomania, Bejeweled Blitz
- Mobile Apps on the Agenda at Inside Social Apps 2012
Wednesday, January 11
- Fluff Friends Social Game Franchise Makes the Jump to iOS with Fluff Friends Rescue
- DeNA’s Ngmoco Snags Partnership With Glu Mobile For Mobage Platform
- Gamevil Launches Free Pictionary-Style Game Chalk ‘n’ Talk on Android
- Call of Duty Mobile Companion App “Elite” Supplements Popular Series with Stat-Tracking on the Go
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Addmired, 6waves, TubeMogul and more
- Emerging Free iOS Apps: Angry Gran, Cloud On and Life is Crime
- Atari, The Venerable Gaming Brand, Hints at Mobile Publishing Plans, New IP
- Android Apps Can Run on Windows 8 PCs Through BlueStacks
- Shanghai’s The9 Will Get to Run Sony Ericsson’s App Store in China
Thursday, January 12
- iPad-Exclusive Newspaper The Daily is No Longer Just For iOS Tablets
- Apple Narrows Smartphone Sales Gap With Strong Quarter Following 4S Launch, NPD Says
- A Modest Suggestion For Improving App Discovery on The Charts From Hong Kong’s Animoca
- New Hires in Mobile: Funzio, Rovio and ngmoco:)
- ISA Preview: Mobile Game Marketing and Distribution – Acquiring Users on iOS and Android
- Emerging Android Apps: Big Time Gangsta, Basketball Shot, Dead Space
- Digital Chocolate Snags VPs From Nokia, Sulake, Announces Android Apps and Army Attack for iOS
- EA Loses Barry Cottle to Zynga, Promotes Playfish’s Segerstrale
Friday, January 13
- Apple Shelves Retail Availability of iPhone 4S in China After Mobs Form in Beijing
- Chillingo’s Licensed Woody Woodpecker Game is a Twist on Indie Hit Tiny Wings
- 25 Popular EA Titles Will Come to Nokia’s Lumia Windows Phones
- Mobile App Roundup: World of Goo, Gameloft and PayPal
- EA Leads Academy of Interactive Arts & Science Award Nominations for Mobile and Social Games
Saturday, January 14
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- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Addmired, TubeMoguel, IMVU and more
- Android Market is Probably Not Coming to China Anytime Soon
- Zynga’s New Game ZombieSmash is Probably From an Undisclosed Acquisition
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, January 9
- Rekoo becomes largest social game company in China after acquiring HappySNS
- Words With Friends continues to lead this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Disney’s first branded Facebook game will be Marvel: Avengers Alliance
Tuesday, January 10
- Vostu: social games with real-time multiplayer more likely to go viral
- Announcing the Agenda at Inside Social Apps 2012
Wednesday, January 11
- CastleVille back at the top of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Google+ gets another timed exclusive with Plarium’s Pirates: Tides of Fortune
- Gameloft brings 3D social racing to Google+ with GT Racing: Motor Academy
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Addmired, 6waves, Jana and more
- EA’s Risk: Factions annexes Facebook with updates to original Xbox Live game
- ISA Preview: Monetizing Social Games on Facebook, Today and Tomorrow
Thursday, January 12
- Spry Fox aiming for 10 years of Triple Town, mobile app heading to iOS and Android
- Inside Tetris Battle, Facebook’s top multiplayer arcade game
- Brighter Option’s cheaper user acquisition solution boosts dev’s users 60 percent
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Booyah, GameHouse and Plumbee
- YoYo Games’ first social game Grave Maker demonstrates popular Game Maker product’s versatility
- EA Loses Barry Cottle to Zynga, promotes Playfish’s Segerstrale
- International Game Technology buys Double Down Interactive for $500M
- Digital Chocolate snags VPs from Nokia, Sulake, announces Android apps and Army Attack for iOS
Friday, January 13
- World Mysteries top this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Disney Playdom to publish Spry Fox’s Triple Town
- Risk: Factions reimagines popular board game and console title for Facebook
- Social gaming news roundup: China, Google and PerBlue
Saturday, January 14
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, January 9
- Causes, Family Tree, Yahoo, Trip Advisor, Birthday Cards, Spotify on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- How Facebook Comments impact Google search rankings
- Facebook, NBC partnership expands to political polling
Tuesday, January 10
- ‘People Talking About This’ defined
- Facebook continues coupon test with larger News Feed stories
- Sponsored Stories begin to appear in News Feed
- Announcing the Agenda at Inside Social Apps 2012
Wednesday, January 11
- Spotify, Yahoo, Bing, Badoo and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Tapjoy, 6waves, Jana, more
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagent, Wildfire, TBG Digital
- Facebook optimizes comments plugin for mobile
- Adele, Leo Messi, Games, “Titanic,” YouTube and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook Pages
Thursday, January 12
- Facebook careers postings: counsel, engineering, data centers and more
- Facebook hires and departures: engineering, sales, legal and more
- Platform update: infinite scrolling, stream filters, user support, more
- Facebook introduces ‘listen with friends’ for real-time music sharing
Friday, January 13
- Romney, Paul lead this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Football, beer, Myspace, Netflix and more on this week’s yop 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook integrations prove popular at CES
- Facebook Roundup: Politico, NBC, CES
Saturday, January 14
