This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between April 23 and 28.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, April 30
- EA PopCap hops on the merchandising wagon
- Emerging free iOS apps: Logos Quiz Game, Cannon Cat and Smash Cops
- Become a hero and build a town in Rule the Kingdom
- CrowdStar and iWin bringing Facebook games to GREE’s mobile platform
Tuesday, May 1
- Little Red Riding Hood goes on a grand time-travelling adventure in Elphis
- Emerging paid iOS apps: Ugly Meter, Infinity Blade and Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- EA shutting down Restaurant City on Facebook, iOS
- Google Play doesn’t monetize? It does for free-to-play games that use carrier billing
- Facebook platform sent 160M users to mobile apps in April
- GREE buys Crime City developer Funzio for $210 million
Wednesday, May 2
- Heroes and villains clash in Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sojo, King.com, IMVU and more
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: Slotomania, Castle Age HD and Kingdoms of Camelot
Thursday, May 3
- LifeStreet enters the mobile advertising fray with $66 million in new funding
- Rescue the baby birds with Hareep
- Gameloft smartphone, tablet games make up 40% of earnings in Q1
- Behind the scenes of GREE’s latest acquisition: what made Funzio right for the Japanese mobile giant
- New hires in mobile: Big Fish Games, Path and Unity
- Glu Mobile’s smartphone revenues climb 192% to $17.4m in Q1
- Emerging popular Android Apps: Rage of Bahamut, Instagram and Shark Dash
Friday, May 4
- Game Insight invites iOS players to rule the Enchanted Realm
- Plumber Cracks and Office Jerks: How Fluik built up an entertainment app empire
- Mobile app news roundup: Google mobile search, Draw Something and WWDC
Saturday, May 5
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, April 30
- CrowdStar and iWin bringing Facebook games to GREE’s mobile platform
- Candy Crush Saga continues hot streak among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Living the frontiersman’s life once again in Plinga’s Pioneers
- What social games can learn from real money gaming
Tuesday, May 1
- EA shutting down Restaurant City on Facebook, iOS
- Bubble-popping, honey-stealing fun with Buggle
- Zynga turns on Facebook cross-promotion for partner game Woodland Heroes
- Top 25 Facebook games of May 2012
- GREE buys Crime City developer Funzio for $210 million
Wednesday, May 2
- Bejeweled Blitz tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Kixeye, PopCap, Ryzing and more
- Crack cases in the ‘big smoke’ in Hidden Adventures: Shadows of London
Thursday, May 3
- Zynga.com — two months old and 2.8 million MAU
- Mirrorball Slots brings fairy-tale gambling to Facebook
- New hires in social gaming: Idle Games, Kontagent and Nordeus
Friday, May 4
- Chinese language RPG tops this weeks list of emerging Facebook games
- Scavenge, hunt and survive in The Last Stand: Dead Zone
- Ravenshire Castle launches, marks possible end for “Ravenworld”
- Social games news roundup: King.com, Detroit and Jay-Z
Saturday, May 5
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, April 30
- Socialcam, Viddy, Instagram, Metacafe, Candy Crush Saga, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages by MAU
- Facebook tests new icon to indicate whether activity will be shared after users click links
Tuesday, May 1
- Facebook for Every Phone, sports, ‘Titanic,’ ‘Twilight,’ more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- How social video apps leverage Facebook Open Graph to rapidly gain new users
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Ifeelgoods, Scale Venture Partners, Nanigans, Strutta, more
- Buddy Media acquisition of Brighter Option results in new BuyBuddy ad platform
- Facebook platform sent 160M users to mobile apps in April
- Facebook bug prevents some users from creating event ads
Wednesday, May 2
- Viddy, SocialCam, WashPo, Instagram, quizzes, games, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sociable Labs, Fiveonenine, SponsorPay and more
- What non-profits can take away from Facebook’s organ donation initiative and past activism efforts
Thursday, May 3
- LifeStreet enters the mobile advertising fray with $66 million in new funding
- Involver introduces Engagement Optimization API to be used by any Facebook ad provider
- Zuum updates Facebook strategy tool to provide more insight on page content, competitor performance
- Facebook brings back ‘action links’ to give developers more ways to engage users directly from feed stories
- Instagram for feature phones? Facebook adds simple photo filter options to mobile app
- Facebook hires: engineering, recruiting, policy, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, data center, diversity, more
- Facebook sets $28-35 price range for IPO, valuing company at up to $96B
- Facebook Offers beta extends to more local businesses in U.S.
Friday, May 4
- Buggle, games, file sharing, Etsy, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- After 6-month run, page tab application no longer tops Facebook apps by MAU
- Walkthrough of how to use Facebook’s updated self-serve ad tool
- Facebook roundup: Messenger, Open Compute Project, IPO, Like button, FBI, Ordr.in. more
- Facebook makes another mobile acquisition: location app Glancee
Saturday, May 5
