This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Feb. 6 to Feb. 12.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Feb. 6
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Tank Hero, The Lost City and Reckless Racing 2
- Jigsaw Mansion 2 brings tabletop puzzle fun to iOS
- Last Chance for Pre-Registration to Inside Social Apps – Feb 8 & 9
- Ngmoco executive Oberfest leaves DeNA to start mobile health company
- Apple finally clamps down on app store copycats
- Chartboost’s app cross-promotion service passes 1 billion impressions
Tuesday, Feb. 7
- Formula One star Kimi Raikkonen lends his name to new freemium iOS racer
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Tomorrow – Few More Hours to Pre-Register
- Glu Mobile’s smartphone revenues more than triple to $10.1M in the fourth quarter
- Apple may be finally cracking down on bots after warning to developers
Wednesday, Feb. 8
- Spice Invaders for iOS provides freemium, social spin on tower defense
- Emerging free iOS apps: Ski On Neon, Ninja Farm and Hamlet! HD
- DeNA shares rally 8.4% as company forecasts rebound in virtual currency revenue
- With six recent launches and 60M downloads, Pocket Gems looks to hold onto the top
- Google’s AdMob eliminates minimum bids and targeting fees in move toward AdWords-style auctions
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Plumbee, Mobile Deluxe, Atari and more
- More executive shuffling at EA with departure of CFO Eric Brown
- DeNA’s Ngmoco, maker of the Android gaming network Mobage, sees layoffs amid restructuring
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Acquiring Users on iOS and Android
Thursday, Feb. 9
- Crazy Hedgy from Cybertime jumps and rolls onto the app store
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: iOS, Android and HTML5 app development
- Switching to Google Checkout has helped Bionic Panda Games increase Android user monetization by 25%
- Zynga signs merchandising deal with Hasbro
- New Hires in Mobile: Gameloft, GREE and InMobi
Friday, Feb. 10
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: Emerging International Opportunities for Mobile and Social Developers
- Feed a hungry Froad with YoYo Games’ latest GameMaker-produced iOS and Android title
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: Monetizing Mobile Games on iOS and Android
- Zynga’s new SVP of Mobile Travis Boatman: “We’re excited about the physics category”
Saturday, Feb. 11
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Feb. 6
- Social cricket game CricVille aims to hit a six on Facebook
- Last Chance for Pre-Registration to Inside Social Apps – Feb 8 & 9
- Digital Chocolate launches New In Town on Facebook, looking for female audience
- Social games getting bolder with closed, open beta tests on Facebook
Tuesday, Feb. 7
- Exclusive: Nexon Brings KartRider to Facebook
- Team Slots provides original, cooperative take on video slot machine genre
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Tomorrow – Few More Hours to Pre-Register
Wednesday, Feb. 8
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Facebook, Apple, Google and in 2012
- Developers say Facebook Credits is converting fewer paying users than they had hoped
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Trends in Social Gaming
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: FunCom, Identified, King.com, Addmired and more
- Loot Drop: We had a game cloned before a line of code had been written
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Monetizing Social Games on Facebook: Credits, Today and Tomorrow
- More executive shuffling at EA with departure of CFO Eric Brown
Thursday, Feb. 9
- Digital Chocolate’s New In Town invites players to find a life, love and gainful employment in the big city
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: The Google+ Platform Roadmap in 2012
- Zynga signs merchandising deal with Hasbro
- New Hires in Social Gaming: East Side Games, King.com and Peak Games
Friday, Feb. 10
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: Emerging International Opportunities for Mobile and Social Developers
- Robot Unicorn Attack hits Facebook for the third time with new “Evolution” version
- Zynga SVP of Mobile talks genres, acquisitions
- There is a $100M discrepancy in Facebook’s payments revenues
Saturday, Feb. 11
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Feb. 6
- Zynga, page tools, birthdays, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook lets Open Graph apps publish to past points on Timeline
- Last Chance for Early Registration to Inside Social Apps – Feb 8 & 9
- Facebook’s 99%: Later employees may pay almost double the tax rate that early employees will
- Platform update: ads, passwords, access tokens, more
Tuesday, Feb. 7
- Cityville, Adele, McDonald’s, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- Some pages boost engagement with posts about Super Bowl: So what?
- Inside Social Apps 2012 is Tomorrow – Few More Hours to Pre-Register
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Nimble, GraphEffect, Buddy Media, more
Wednesday, Feb. 8
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: GREE, Atari, Spooky Cool Labs, more
- Developers say Facebook Credits converts fewer paying users than hoped
- Facebook partners with mobile billing provider Bango
- Facebook appends its 2005 stock plan to its IPO filing in new amendment
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Facebook Platform Roadmap in 2012
- 60 million monthly users engage with apps on Facebook mobile platform; average 5 times per month
- Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Social Apps for Marketers and Brands, Maximizing Audience Engagement
- Facebook shares climb 10% in private auction to $103B valuation
Thursday, Feb. 9
- Facebook hires and departures: engineering, search, mobile, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, mobile, marketing, more
- Greeting cards, Zynga, Washington Post, birthdays, more on this week’s top 15 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: The Future of Mobile App Discovery on Facebook
Friday, Feb. 10
- Tabs, Heineken, Yahoo, games, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Blogging Inside Social Apps: Social Game Marketing and Performance Advertising on Facebook
- Santorum soars this week on Inside Facebook’s Election Tracker
- Facebook tests ‘Add to Map’ prompt on place pages
- Facebook IPO filing includes $100M discrepancy
- Facebook roundup: code, IPO, Super Bowl, WashPo
Saturday, Feb. 11
