This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Jan. 28
- Puzzle & Dragons reaches 7 million downloads, GungHo now more valuable than Zynga
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App Annie takes an-depth look at the mobile app economy in Japan
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Temple Run 2, What’s the Word, and Ghostbusters on this week’s top free apps charts
Tuesday, Jan. 29
- Fiksu: Holidays boost app downloads and mobile marketing costs
- OpenTable acquires FoodSpotting for $10 million cash
- Mixpanel launches Revenue Analytics, tracks any and all revenue data for app developers
- Gameloft Q4 2012 revenues up 23% year-over-year to €57.7M, fiscal year revenues up 27% year-over-year to €208.3M
- Vine could be the next big thing in social video sharing
- Banana Kong, Sleep Cycle, Super Hexagon and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, Jan. 30
- WebEx co-founder launches Moxtra app to organize your multimedia, foster collaboration
- No more waiting at the bar with iDon’tQ
- The Inside Network Job Board: Spil games, Hitachi, Twitter and more
- App Annie: Google Play revenue doubles quarter-over-quarter, revenue growth led by Japan and South Korea
- EA generates $79M in revenue on mobile in Q3 2013, up 20 percent quarter-over-quarter
- What’s the Word, ForeFlight, and Fantasica on this week’s top grossing apps charts
Thursday, Jan. 31
- No-frills rich editing on the go with Texts
- Temple Run 2 runs to 50 million downloads in two weeks, shatters previous record
- New hires in mobile apps: Wooga, Akamon and DeNA
- Facebook mobile app install ads used by 20 percent of the top 100 grossing iOS apps
Friday, Feb. 1
- Millennial Media: Android platform accounts for 64% of games impressions, 12 percent higher than the ad network’s platform average for Android
- Exclusive: W3i partners with HasOffers, accurately track which ad networks drove app installs with MobileAppTracking
- Schedule it with friends in TheTudu
- Mobile apps news roundup: Apple, Gameloft, Twitter and more
- Distimo analyzes the impact of price changes on download volumes, revenue
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Jan. 28
Tuesday, Jan. 29
- Command your armies from anywhere: Stratego comes to mobile, web and Facebook
- Gameforge reveals SponsorPay helped convert 16 percent of non-paying users
- Rumble Entertainment publishing Unity-powered FPS Ballistic
- Ghostbusters (iOS) review
- King.com releases new Candy Crush Saga highlights
- Pengle review
Wednesday, Jan. 30
- PlayHaven picks up AdMob’s Charles Yim as COO
- Zynga’s first high-profile departure of 2013 is Brian Reynolds
- Digit raises $2.5M for cross-platform game development
- The Inside Network Job Board: Spil games, Hitachi, Twitter and more
- Pantheon the Legends (iOS) review
- EA reports $45M net loss for Q3 2013, made $79M from mobile titles
- Royal Story review
Thursday, Jan. 31
- Red Crucible 2 review
- Immortalis (iOS) review
- KingsRoad on track to bring the AAA RPG experience to social games
- New hires in social games: Wooga, East Side Games and Akamon
Friday, Feb. 1
- Peter Relan launches OpenKit with over 500 devs signed on
- Pixel People (iOS) review
- The Top 25 Facebook games of February 2013
- Guest Post: Resurrecting Location-Based Games
- Social games news roundup: Zynga, Actua Sports and myVEGAS
- 27M users bought virtual goods using Facebook Payments in 2012; Zynga’s influence on revenue further diminishes
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Jan 28
Tuesday, Jan. 29
- Guest post: Facebook App Ecosystem Year in Review
- Study: Facebook Page Post Ads generate 14% higher ROI for retail sector than Marketplace ads
Wednesday, Jan. 30
- Stipple allows Facebook pages to share interactive images and drive e-commerce
- 3 key findings influence how Facebook approaches advertising
- Facebook reports $1.585B in revenue for Q4 2012, net income of $64M
- Facebook’s global growth in Q4: 1.06B MAU, mobile surpasses web
- Facebook earned $5M from non-game payments in Q4 2012, expects Gifts and other revenue sources to grow slowly
- Ads in News Feed reduce Likes and comments by marginal percentage, Zuckerberg says
- Facebook says 500,000 pages use Promoted Posts, 42M users claim Offers
- Facebook introduces new structured status updates to help users share what they’re feeling, watching, eating and more
Thursday, Jan. 31
- Facebook, P&G, UM! Brands, Jordan and others on this week’s top PTAT gainers among product and service pages
- Facebook introduces universal gift card that friends can reload for different retailers
- Facebook platform industry update: Glow raises $1.3M; Offerpop makes hires
- Zuckerberg says mobile-first experiences will be ‘big theme’ of 2013, maximizing profits won’t be
Friday, Feb. 1
- Facebook hires: head of automotive, VP business communications, global brand designer, software engineers, more
- Facebook careers: filmmaker, product marketing managers, user operations analysts, measurement leads, more
- News Feed is the next Facebook pillar in need of an overhaul
- 27M users bought virtual goods using Facebook Payments in 2012; Zynga’s influence on revenue further diminishes
- Facebook platform now encompasses more than 50M pages and 10M apps
- Facebook roundup: photo tags, privacy, Crunchies, Cleantech and more
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
- Facebook-focused Payvment goes dark, hints at acquihire, directs customers to Ecwid
- SkiftSocial brings a Klout-like social media dashboard to the travel industry
- OpenTable acquires FoodSpotting for $10 million cash
- Interview: GSI Commerce talks new social graph partnership with 8th Bridge
- Social TV Company Dijit Acquires App Creators Miso
