This week's headlines from across Inside Network
A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 10 and Dec.14.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, Dec. 10
- Writing it old-school with Handwrite
- MoMinis secures $6M in Series B round
- Smash Cops Heat, Fun Run, YouTube and more on this week’s top free mobile apps
- Zite gets a version 2.0 makeover
Tuesday, Dec. 11
- Nexage: CPMs grew 44 percent quarter-over-quarter, increase in rich media and video ad impressions and brand mobile ad spend will increase next year
- Keep your contacts up to date with Addappt
- Block Ops, GTA Vice City, Scribblenauts and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, Dec. 12
- Appnation: mobile is “cannibalizing” TV, ngmoco builds its user base via a “platform effect”
- How changes to Facebook’s app auth process affect developers
- GTA Vice City, Modern Combat 4, SwiftKey 3 and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
- The Inside Network Job Board: Playdom, GameHouse, Triggit and more
- Show off your panorama skills with PanoPerfect
- GREE designs RPG for a casual and core audience with Knights & Dragons: Rise of the Dark Prince
- New hires in mobile apps: PlaySpace, Wooga and NaturalMotion
Thursday, Dec. 13
Friday, Dec. 14
- Inside Network Research finds nearly half of Facebook games players are daily users — and so are their friends
- iOS leads the pack in eCPM, traffic, revenue on Opera’s mobile ad platform, iPad average eCPM of $4.42
- Spread some holiday cheer with Pocket Card Lab
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, Dec. 10
- Writer Rumble (iOS) review
- CityVille 2 returns to the top spot among the fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Cantasia review
- PopCap looking for developer to work on “AAA console title”
Tuesday, Dec. 11
- Warner Bros. and MGM invest in Kabam
- Bubble Rush review
- Ubisoft, Toys “R” Us partner for Toys “R” Us Towers Facebook game with in-store discounts
- Beacon Bingo Friends review
Wednesday, Dec. 12
- Applifier closes $4M second round for mobile games discovery
- Subway Surfers (iOS) review
- The Inside Network Job Board: Playdom, GameHouse, Triggit and more
- Openfeint co-founder announces OpenKit, new open platform for mobile developers
- Zynga combining mid-core RPG and casino genres with Zynga Elite Slots
- Bike Race (iOS) review
- Candy Crush Saga’s sugar rush continues among fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Disney Mobile reveals updates, new titles to keep us busy over the Holidays
- New hires in social games: PlaySpace and Wooga
Thursday, Dec. 13
- Stars Connect review
- You Don’t Know Jack comes to iOS with cross platform play
- Top Eleven and FarmVille are this week’s gainer and loser among the Top 25 Facebook games of December, 2012
- Bubble Monsters review
Friday, Dec. 14
- Diamond Speedy review
- Inside Network Research finds nearly half of Facebook games players are daily users — and so are their friends
- Dawn of Darkness tops this week’s emerging Facebook games
- Smash Cops Heat (iOS) review
- Social games news roundup: Double Fine gets into the super hero game, Century 21 joins The Sims Social and Jon Smedley doesn’t like social games
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, Dec. 10
- Facebook launches PMD Center to help marketers find vendors and software
- With Twitter prepping photo filters, Instagram takes action to protect brand
- Facebook tries new ‘recommended pages’ section to get users to Like more
Tuesday, Dec. 11
- Facebook Gifts expands to all U.S. users
- Facebook approves new Data Use Policy, Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
- The Facebook Marketing Bible: Updates for December 2012
- Identified, Candy Crush Saga, Amazon, JibJab, Megapolis and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU
Wednesday, Dec. 12
- Facebook redesigns privacy controls, activity log and app permissions flow
- How changes to Facebook’s app auth process affect developers
- Facebook updates ad manager tool with multi-account support and activity summary
- Marriott, Best Western, Hilton, Aria and Holiday Inn among most popular hotel brands on Facebook
Thursday, Dec. 13
- Facebook ‘Year in Review’ includes key feature advertisers may envy
- Facebook introduces option for SMBs to create ads directly from their pages
- Facebook for Android 2.0 focuses on speed
- Developers can now easily add ‘go to app’ or ‘play game’ buttons to Facebook pages
- Recent articles module helps Facebook users discover stories about topics they’re interested in
- Facebook for iOS 5.3 includes photo album selection, faster Timeline and News Feed
Friday, Dec. 14
- Inside Network Research finds nearly half of Facebook games players are daily users — and so are their friends
- Guardian takes Facebook integration to its own site, focuses on explicit sharing
- Megapolis, Fox News, Any.Do, Glimpse, Wrapp and more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps by MAU
- Apparent Facebook bug shows users ads in different languages
Inside Social Commerce
Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.
- Green Monday: FedEx says e-commerce will push record shipping today
- New 8thBridge social commerce study: Pinterest has highest adoption, but lowest sales conversions
- Flurry finds retail apps have solid loyalty, but are the least used applications
- New recommerce site Mobixa aides confusing smartphone options
- Inside Network Research finds nearly half of Facebook games players are daily users — and so are their friends
