This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Oct. 1 and 6.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Oct. 1
- Filter and caption your photos with Typic
- Urban Airship brings ultra-fine detail to location-based push marketing, promises to keep data secure
- Discovery Bay Games, Gameloft announce Duo Gamer controller
- Nexon purchases Japanese mobile social game developer Gloops for $469M
- Agawi offers AGP Gold program to bring mid-core games, MMOs to Windows 8
- Drift Mania Championship 2 aims for pole position
- MapQuest, Talking Lila the Fairy, Google Play Magazines and more on this week’s top free mobile apps
Tuesday, Oct. 2
- Prepare for what is to come with Future Scheduler
- Bad Piggies, Super Hexagon, RealCalc Plus and more on this week’s top paid app charts
- Take to the fields of war in Castle Raid
- Givit debuts mobile video editing and sharing app
Wednesday, Oct. 3
- Applicasa seeks to carve out a mobile niche with all-in-one game management platform
- Share the shopping list with AnyList
- CrowdStar Co-Founder and GM Jeffrey Tseng promoted to CEO
- It takes 54,000 downloads to reach the top 10 of the free iPhone app charts
- The Inside Network Job Board: Amazon Game Studio, Applifier, Kiwi and more
- Zoosk grows mobile platform, shares some of its insights
- Tiliard brings innovative pool-style puzzling to iOS
- New hires in mobile games: GREE, OUYA and more
- Bad Piggies, DoubleDown Casino, OfficeSuite Pro 6 and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
Thursday, Oct. 4
- Google’s new iPhone YouTube app explored
- Android-only cross promotion network AppFlood now serving 200M impressions a month, planing iOS expansion
- Zynga and Atari unveil Super Bunny Breakout for mobile devices
- Google Play revenues up 137% since January, payment conversion rates within “kissing distance” of iOS
- ACT debuts the App Privacy Icons
- Mobile apps sector created 519,000 jobs in the U.S.
- Prove your skills on an alien world in Shufflepuck Cantina
- Moga game controller attempts to bring console gaming experience to mobile
Friday, Oct. 5
- Fight to become Lord of the Dragons on iOS
- Words With Friends creators leave Zynga
- Guest Post: Making your iOS game succeed to China
- See where all your time is going with Chronos
- Play Gameloft titles with the Duo Gamer controller
- Mobile app news roundup: OMGPOP, Windows 8 devices and Apcelerator
Saturday, Oct. 6
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Oct. 1
- Last Temple review
- Calling All Readers: Help us Make Inside Social Games Even Better
- FarmVille 2 on top of this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- The Top 25 Facebook Games of October 2012
- Kixeye to launch synchronous “Live Battles” in War Commander this week
Tuesday, Oct. 2
Wednesday, Oct. 3
- Kixeye responds to allegations of workplace racism
- CrowdStar Co-Founder and GM Jeffrey Tseng promoted to CEO
- FarmVille 2 leads this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- App Center recommendation engine drives more repeat app users than previous Facebook games dashboard
- The Inside Network Job Board: Amazon Game Studio, Applifier, Kiwi and more
- Upcoming Event: Social Gaming Summit London
- Monopoly Millionaire Mansions review
- Things just got real: Playing Hasbro’s Zynga board games
- New hires in social games: Social Point, CrowdStar and more
Thursday, Oct. 4
- Zynga and Atari unveil Super Bunny Breakout for mobile devices
- Loot Drop announces ‘Old School RPG’ Kickstarter
- CityVille review
- Zynga lowers 2012 outlook with preliminary earnings report
Friday, Oct. 5
- For The People review
- Words With Friends creators leave Zynga
- Adventure Park on top of this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- Calling All Readers: Help us Make Inside Social Games Even Better
- Social games news roundup: Kixeye fires its “bad egg” employees, Zynga shares plummet (again) and GREE brings more devs on board
Saturday, Oct. 6
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Oct. 1
- Facebook says impressions, reach and frequency matter more than clicks
- Farmville 2, schoolFeed, 4shared, Wordox and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook exploring opportunities to sell premium services for businesses
Tuesday, Oct. 2
- Facebook makes recommendations to FTC about children’s privacy law
- Oreo takes Facebook ‘Daily Twist’ campaign to Times Square for final day
Wednesday, Oct. 3
- Facebook expands ‘promoted posts’ test for users’ personal updates
- App Center recommendation engine drives more repeat app users than previous Facebook games dashboard
- Adobe Photoshop, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer Arabia and others in this week’s top PTAT gainers among software pages
- Facebook says small businesses ‘just as important’ as big brands
- Facebook platform industry hires: Offerpop and SocialCode
Thursday, Oct. 4
- Facebook reaches billion user milestone
- Facebook creates first major ad campaign with Wieden & Kennedy
- Facebook clarifies how Like plugin works, addresses privacy concerns
- Facebook hires: Carsabi team, head of policy France, marketing mix science lead, client partners and more
- Facebook career postings: monetization, partner development, advertising counsel, platform policy, localization, more
Friday, Oct. 5
