This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 3 and Dec. 7.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Dec. 3
- News Corp shuttering iPad newspaper The Daily
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Platform Opportunity in 2013
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: The Future of Mobile App Discovery & Marketing
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Monetizing Social and Mobile Games
- News at a glance with Wavii
Tuesday, Dec. 4
- ZeptoLab still sweet on puzzle solving with new IP Pudding Monsters
- PlayHaven gets granular with its new user segmentation tools
- Find a room for the night with Airbnb
- Guest Post: how Outfit7 used deep advertising integration to double performance and revenues
- Slant Six Games opens up about its move from mainstream to mobile
Wednesday, Dec. 5
- HitFox driving 10,000 mobile game installs per day for mobile game publishers, expands with offices in San Francisco and Paris
- The Inside Network Job Board: DoubleDown, Wooga, Fiksu and more
- 25 developers account for half of the revenue in U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play, says Canalys
- Flurry: Mobile app usage grows 35%
- Marvel War of Heroes, Paradise Cove, Ayakashi and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
- New hires in mobile apps: Social Point, Paltalk and more
Thursday, Dec. 6
- Tapjoy reaches the 1 billion devices milestone
- Chartboost: iPhone accounts for 61 percent of overall mobile gaming among iOS devices
- Gamenauts working to bring Asian indie mobile games to Western markets
- See the world through everyone’s eyes with JustSeen
Friday, Dec. 7
- Fiksu’s FreeMyApps platform launches for Android
- Pocket Gems to publish third party titles
- Clone yourself with Split Pic
- 25 people laid off from GREE’s U.S. offices, consolidates existing teams
- Mobile news roundup: gumi on GREE, new games and Pocket’s first publishing partner
- Stay tuned with Frequency
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Dec. 3
- The Top 25 Facebook Games of December 2012
- Spaceteam (iOS) review
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Social and Mobile Game Product Design and Development
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Platform Opportunity in 2013
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Investing in Social and Mobile Games
- Adobe adds game developer tools to its Creative Cloud
Tuesday, Dec. 4
Wednesday, Dec. 5
- Facebook: SongPop is the top social game of the year
- The Inside Network Job Board: DoubleDown, Wooga, Fiksu and more
- CoasterVille is Zynga’s newest “Ville” title
- ChefVille has this week’s blue-ribbon recipe as the fastest-growing Facebook game by DAU
- Let’s Fish review
- New hires in social games: Kixeye, Social Point and more
- Zynga files for Preliminary Finding of Suitability, one step closer to real-money gaming in Nevada
Thursday, Dec. 6
- Gamenauts working to bring Asian indie mobile games to Western markets
- Kixeye expands into Canada with new studio
- Monster Hospital (iOS) review
- CoasterVille review
- Criminal Case review
Friday, Dec. 7
- Pet Rescue Saga is this week’s gainer among the Top 25 Facebook games of December 2012
- Pockie Ninja II Social review
- Yazino is this week’s top emerging Facebook game
- Party Place (iOS) review
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Dec. 3
- Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York: Fireside with Facebook’s David Fisch
- Liveblogging Social Apps for Marketers and Brands: Maximizing Audience Engagement
- TripAdvisor, JibJab, YouTube Mobile, Keek, Pandora and more on this week’s top 20 non-game Facebook apps growing by MAU
Tuesday, Dec. 4
- Facebook opens mobile Messenger app to non-users in play for ubiquity
- Facebook simplifies process for creating repeat events
- Shoutlet brings Facebook ad creation to marketing platform, partners with Kenshoo
- Facebook to add design team to NYC office
Wednesday, Dec. 5
- Facebook mobile platform gains ground with 200K apps now connected
- SongPop is Facebook’s top rated social game of the year
- Facebook to change ‘subscribe’ to ‘follow’
- Playstation, Burger King, Swatch and Clarins begin using global pages
Thursday, Dec. 6
- Facebook head of brand design calls out trends to watch in 2013
- Facebook shares stats about businesses using pages and promoted posts
- Facebook search takes users to specific sections of App Center
Friday, Dec. 7
- Facebook hires and departures: designer goes to Dropbox, 19 job listings removed
- Facebook careers: performance solutions strategists, global sales development lead, head of creative and more
- Facebook seeks to improve reference docs with auto updates from source code
- Identified, Daily Horoscope, Swaylo and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
