This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Feb. 4 and Feb. 8.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Feb. 4
- Sign here with OliveSign
- Capcom digital revenues up 39.2 percent year-over-year to $536.1M
- Build your own music magazine with Shuffler.fm
- AppGratis, Early Bird, and What’s the Word on this week’s top free apps charts
Tuesday, Feb. 5
- Com2uS revenues dip quarter-over-quarter to $19.5M in Q4
- Amazon Coins virtual currency coming in May
- GREE lifts the lid off $10M investment fund for mobile game developers
- Get noticed with Flirt Chase
- Make the most of your day with TimeNuggets
- Glu Mobile’s Q4 2012 smartphone revenues up 1% quarter-over-quarter to $18.5M, up 24 percent Y-o-Y
- Arms Cartel Global, Little Inferno, Fruit Ninja and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, Feb. 6
- Urban Airship lands $25M in another round of funding
- The Inside Network Job Board: Twitter, Stanford University, GameDuell and more
- Tell the world what you think with Swipp
- Lord of the Dragons,The Tribez, and HellFire on this week’s top grossing apps charts
- Android Jelly Bean grows to a 13.6% market share, Ice Cream Sandwich remains stagnant at 29%
- Deface your favorite photos with Photograffiti
- ComScore: Apple remains top smartphone manufacturer, Samsung shows most growth
- New hires in mobile apps: DeNA, Gloops and Brainbow
Thursday, Feb. 7
- Telly announces My Telly, delivers videos based on user’s social graph
- Mominis rebrands as PlayScape
- Build a communal masterpiece with Pixplit
- Find your perfect career with Glassdoor
Friday, Feb. 8
- Binders full of anything you please with Moxtra
- Share your location-based experiences with Now
- Mobile news roundup: Ouya details, iOS 6.1 issues and more
- Guest Post: Learning from the past: Patterns in the recent history of game platforms part 1
- Frima, Moonscoop to produce animated TV series based on mobile game Squids
- Exclusive: Apsalar analyzes the correlation between mobile game engagement and monetization by genre
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Feb. 4
- Kongregate pledges $10M towards mobile gaming, former Zynga VP heading mobile division
- Betable partners with Frima Studio’s new real-money gaming division, 3OAK
- Kabam announces Fast & Furious 6 mobile game
- Berserk: The Cataclysm review
- Race 4 My Place launches, bringing real world rewards and cash prizes to social gaming
- CoasterVille leads this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Book of Heroes (iOS) review
Tuesday, Feb. 5
- GREE lifts the lid off $10M investment fund for mobile game developers
- Total Domination re-review
- Game Insight secures $25 M investment
- Zynga’s earnings report for Q4 2012 shows $311 M in revenue, $48.5 M loss
- Zynga shutting down CityVille 2
- Zynga bringing FarmVille 2 to mobile, pushing onto the platform with new IP
Wednesday, Feb. 6
- Race 4 My Place review
- The Inside Network Job Board: Twitter, Stanford University, GameDuell and more
- Criminal Case solves the mystery of this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Stratego (iOS) review
- New hires in social games: Brainbow and Gloops
Thursday, Feb. 7
- Playdek opens up about adapting hobby games to digital platforms
- Large Animal Games debuts Universal Film Mogul on Facebook
- Universal Film Mogul review
- Frog Orbs (iOS) review
- Bee Cave announces first game, seed funding of $1.4M
Friday, Feb. 8
- Hidden Agenda review
- PerBlue launching Parallel Kingdom “Age of Ascension” update
- Birdopolis again tops this week’s list of emerging Facebook games
- City Conquest (iOS) review
- Social games news roundup: FarmVille on TV, Scarecrow in Oz and Robo5
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Feb. 4
- Facebook to implement AdChoices icon on FBX ads to improve transparency
- Facebook prompts users to Like pages associated with domains their friends share
- Facebook ‘Lookalike Audiences’ help advertisers reach users similar to current customers, others in their database
Tuesday, Feb. 5
- Spredfast raises $18M, Sprinklr secures $15M for social marketing software
- Facebook tries new tactics to get users to invite friends to events
- Instagram brings image feed to the web
- Facebook tests new sidebar ad format with horizontal image above body copy
Wednesday, Feb. 6
- Percent of monthly active Facebook users who return daily increases
- Iron Man benefits from Super Bowl blackout as viewers turned to Facebook after commercial aired
- BlackBerry, Nokia, more among this week’s top PTAT gainers for electronics pages
- Facebook brings friendship pages to mobile site, still rolling out to native apps
Thursday, Feb. 7
- PageData Launches New Comparative Dashboard Tool
- Nanigans Ad Engine optimizes for mobile app users with highest lifetime value
- Guest Post: Facebook Custom Audience Targeting Top 3 Concerns Put to Rest
- Average Facebook costs per click drop as advertisers adopt News Feed ads, TBG finds
- Bug briefly leads sites with Facebook login and plugins to render error message
Friday, Feb. 8
- Guest Post: Get Ahead of Competitors and Implement Strategies for Graph Search
- Facebook hires: mobile program manager, global sales development lead, mobile UI engineer, product release specialist, more
- Facebook careers: SMB community support, data protection and public policy, measurement partnerships, more
- Facebook roundup: Developers Live, Promoted Posts, Nasdaq and more
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
