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This week’s headlines from across Inside Network
Posted by Kathleen De Vere, under FacebookA roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Mar. 5 to Mar. 11.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Mar. 5
- Spaceport says HTML5 performs better on iOS than Android
- 6waves Lolapps doubles down on mobile publishing, offers potential partners $100,000 in marketing
- Emerging top paid iOS apps: Fancy Pants, Procreate and Incoboto
- Citybuilding comes to Springfield (briefly) with The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Tuesday, Mar. 6
- Emerging free iOS apps: Plumber Crack, Camera Awesome, Smithsonian Channel
- Fluik launches Plumber Crack to let players pester a plumber’s posterior
- Google rebrands Android Market as Google Play, does another sale to round up credit cards
- Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social and Mobile Gaming Audience 2012
- Mobile-first, indie gaming companies dominate with two-thirds of user sessions on Android, iOS
- Designer Matias Duarte on steering the “ocean liner” that is Android
- Kihon Games takes $1.5M in round led by Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson
Wednesday, Mar. 7
- Emerging top grossing iOS apps: MLB.com At Bat, Mass Effect, QuickOffice
- A first look at Supercell’s tablet-only combat title Battle Buddies
- Mass Effect Infiltrator brings EA’s popular sci-fi franchise to iOS for the second time
- The new iPad for developers – better screen, better cameras, better graphics
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: PopCap, SocialPoint, TinyCo and more
- Ngmoco’s Neil Young: “Zynga is a far more formidable competitor than GREE.”
- In a boon for 3D and high-end games, Android and iOS boost app size limits this week
- EA PopCap’s slidedeck on how turning Bejeweled freemium bumped daily downloads by nine-fold
Thursday, Mar. 8
- Rovio gives another teaser of Angry Birds Space (from space)
- Emerging popular Android apps: MLB.com At Bat, Voxer Walkie-Talkie PTT, Poweramp
- New hires in mobile: 6waves Lolapps, Big Fish Games and TinyCo
- Innogames looks to branch out from hardcore-focused browser games with cross-platform mobile push
- Secrets of the acquisition process from EA and Zynga (straight from the horse’s mouth!)
Friday, Mar. 9
- OMGPOP’s resurgence draws interest from investors, acquirers abound
- Adventure Bar Story shows players an RPG world from another perspective
- Google+ looks increasingly poised to be the social gaming layer for Android
- Bango CEO: Operators are getting more flexible on terms for carrier billing
Saturday, Mar. 10
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Mar. 5
- Angry Birds wings to the top of this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Redshift reaches for the stars with its sci-fi RPG experience
- Zynga games platform is now live in beta
Tuesday, Mar. 6
- Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social and Mobile Gaming Audience 2012
- Facebook puts social game score stories in News Feed; module asks users to ‘play it again’
- Google+ digs up 30-day exclusive with Eastside Games’ Zombinis
- Google rebrands Android Market as Google Play, does another sale to round up credit cards
Wednesday, Mar. 7
- Caesars Interactive Entertainment: ‘We expect to be No. 1 in casino games on social and mobile’
- Angry Birds tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Addmired, TinyCo, PopCap and more
- PopCap back on form as Solitaire Blitz officially launches on Facebook
- Where EA PopCap’s Lucky Gem actually comes from
Thursday, Mar. 8
- New hires in social gaming: Crowdstar, Idle Games and Kixeye
- Facebook’s games ticker drove more referrals to The Sims Social than any other viral tool
- Liveblogging John Schappert’s GDC Track Keynote: “Why ‘Free’ and Cross-Platform Is The Future of Gaming”
- Zynga signs Playdemic, Konami, Rebellion for games platform, revenue share split 70/30 after Facebook
Friday, Mar. 9
- Secrets of the acquisition process from EA and Zynga
- Grow your crops and strive for eternal life in Astro Garden
- Diner Dash mysteriously reappears at the top of this week’s emerging games list on Facebook
- Wall Street Game takes social battling to the trading floor
Saturday, Mar. 10
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Mar. 5
- New moderation option hides user posts until page admins approve them
- Dailymotion, BranchOut, Angry Birds, Pinterest, Spotify, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook ads can still lead to specific tabs, even with default feature gone
- Microsoft puts Bing search ad on Facebook logout page
Tuesday, Mar. 6
- Adele, PlayStation, Mercedes-Benz, Disney, Guitar Hero, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages
- Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Spending and Usage Patterns of the Social and Mobile Gaming Audience 2012
- Facebook to restructure preferred developer consultant program
- New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagent, BranchOut, Involver
- Facebook puts social game score stories in News Feed; module asks users to ‘play it again’
Wednesday, Mar. 7
- New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, GREE, Power Reviews and more
- Facebook gives Open Graph apps option to add friends, location to posts
- Facebook says it had 432M mobile users in December 2011; 13 percent are mobile-only
- Facebook estimates 5 or 6 percent of total users are fake accounts
Thursday, Mar. 8
- 15M Facebook users bought virtual goods with Credits in 2011
- Facebook introduces interests lists to organize News Feed by topics
- Facebook hires and departures: engineering, data centers, mobile, more
- Facebook career postings: engineering, data centers, marketing, more
- Former Facebook engineering director Yishan Wong takes role as CEO of Reddit
- Facebook platform update: European incentive program, policy, training course, more
Friday, Mar. 9
- Marvel, Zynga, cards, Viddy, Metacafe, more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Facebook roundup: IPO, germany, Windows, location, more
Saturday, Mar. 10
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