This week's headlines from across Inside Network

A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between May 8 and June 2. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, May 28 Dig deep with Glu’s Lil’ Kingdom Tuesday, May 29 Fiksu: iOS app download volume down 8% year-on-year, but user acquisition costs rise Bug-chomping fun with Glow Bugs Urban Airship: incorporating push notifications improved Airbnb’s booking speed 8x Emerging paid iOS apps: Palm Reading Booth, Angry Birds Space and Monopoly for iPad Wednesday, May 30 Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage Catch, breed and feed with Monster Park Zooz offers unified solution for PayPal, credit cards and carrier billing Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research Emerging top grossing iOS apps: DragonVale, Dragon Story and Slotomatia New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Activision, King.com, Wooga and more Thursday, May 31 Pets in your pocket with Mobbles GREE bringing $26M-a-month-earning card battle game Driland to North America How to double user retention with push notifications: Urban Airship shares best practices New hires in mobile: Gloops, NaturalMotion and Tylted Emerging popular Android apps: Monster Park, Songify and Rebuild Friday, June 1 Rule the high seas with Sid Meier’s Pirates, now for iPhone Stomp, roar and burn with Dragon Evolution WeottaGo reinvents local with smart data intelligence It looks like Zynga’s newest mobile game is Zynga Slots Mobile app news roundup: 46 million iOS apps a day, 300 million Fruit Ninjas and 100,000 Angry Birds credit cards Saturday, June 2 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Mixr, Activision, King.com and more Inside Social Games Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Sunday, May 27 Trip Hawkins steps down as Digital Chocolate CEO, says studio is becoming more “streamlined” as layoffs are reported Monday, May 28 myVegas aims to combine real world casinos with virtual resorts and social games Tuesday, May 29 Zynga Bingo tops this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU Former Zynga CTO of Mobile Laurent Desegur goes to Game Closure RocketFrog review You Don’t Know Jack is now live on Facebook Wednesday, May 30 Kixeye brings Backyard Monsters to mobile with Mobage bwin.party sets aside $50 million for social games, creates Win studio Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research Seaside Hideaway review Zynga Bingo scores big, wins this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU Thursday, May 31 Bubble Witch Saga is both this week’s gainer and loser among May’s Top 25 games You Don’t Know Jack review New hires in social gaming: TrialPay, Adparlor and GameHouse Friday, June 1 Buffalo Studios partners with the Riviera for Bingo Blitz integration, Las Vegas bingo tournament Arabic-language “Guerilla” sneaks to the top of this week’s emerging Facebook games Baseball Heroes review Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012 Social games news roundup: Kixeye resurrects 3 Blokes, Monster Galaxy expands and Russia gets even bigger Saturday, June 2 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: King.com, Wooga, Mixr and more Inside Facebook Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Tuesday, May 29 Socialcam, quizzes, Yahoo, Pinterest, games, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU Asking for Open Graph app permissions: Involver shares best practices following success of Ad Meter campaign Facebook introduces ‘trending videos’ module in News Feed, redesigns ‘trending articles’ layout New Facebook platform industry hires: Buddy Media, Wildfire, Kontagent, Identified, BranchOut Facebook shares fall to $28.84 on first day of options trading Facebook for Every Phone, Snaptu, Facebook Marketing, Kobe Bryant, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages Wednesday, May 30 Facebook tests button within mobile News Feed to drive users to native Instagram app Want More Data and Analysis? Introducing Inside Network Research Facebook rolls out ‘promote’ button to more U.S. pages, provides details on how it works 21 Questions, Socialcam, Shufflr, Zynga, mobile, horoscopes, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU Facebook expands mobile Sponsored Stories to include recent post and call to action New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, SocialDealer and more Thursday, May 31 Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access Facebook allows post scheduling directly from pages without third-party tools New Facebook guidelines require news and video apps to wait at least 10 seconds before publishing user activity Facebook hires: investor relations, engineering, business development, more Facebook career postings: data center, engineering, mobile, more Friday, June 1 Video, photos, House MD, smileys, Chinese music, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU Facebook puts proposed policy changes up to a vote following activist campaign Top 25 Facebook games of June 2012 Complete walkthrough of Facebook’s mobile Pages Manager app Facebook roundup: Outages, Apple, HQ, hackers, awards, Ceglia, Bing and more Saturday, June 2 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Abundance, Warner Bros and more

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