This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network

This Week’s Headlines from Across Inside Network A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between November 14th and November 18th. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, November 14th: Emerging Top Paid iOS Apps: P90X, Gangstar Rio and EPOCH Adult Swim Games and Rocket Jump Deliver Major Mayhem on the App Store Kindle Fire Runs Nearly Neck-And-Neck With Galaxy Tab in Developer Interest More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco Tuesday, November 15th: Zynga Commits Mafia Wars Shakedown to iOS, No Connection to Facebook Versions Pretty Pet Salon Maker Animoca Raises Funding From Intel Capital, IDG-Accel Emerging Free iOS Apps: Pocket Potions, Glass Tower and Office Jerk App Updates, New Releases May Be Delayed or Unavailable During Christmas Week, Apple Warns Velti Agrees to Buy U.K.’s Mobile Interactive Group For Up to $59 Million in Cash and Earnouts Wednesday, November 16th: Mercenary, Inc. from YCombinator-Selected LVL6 Looks Like a Contender in The Free-to-Play War Mobile Advertising Company Velti Swings to a Profit in The Third Quarter Tapjoy and PapayaMobile Partner on Social Recommendations For Android Apps on Offer Walls 46 Cents in Revenue Per Daily Active User? Vancouver’s A Thinking Ape Has Seen It Before Emerging Top Grossing Apps: Mafia Wars Shakedown, Gangstar and Tiny Village New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: TinyCo, EA, Deep Fried and More Android Platform Reaches 200M Activated Devices, Pace Remains Constant at 550K Per Day Playtomic Brings Mobile Analytics to Android, Adds Heatmaps For Unity-Based Games Thursday, November 17th: Board Game Adaptation Ticket to Ride Pocket Rolls Onto The App Store Chart Google’s AdMob is The Ruling Ad Network on Android Followed by Millennial, InMobi, Xyologic Finds NaturalMotion’s My Horse Reaches a Half-Million Daily Active Users on Its Realistic Animations New Hires in Mobile: Atari, GREE and Natural Motion jQuery Mobile 1.0 Emerges: An HTML5-Based JavaScript Framework For The Mobile Web Emerging Top Android Apps: Great Little War Game, Skitch and NFL Live Wallpapers Appssavvy Hoping to Crack Mobile Ads Market with Activity-Based Ad SDK Yelp’s IPO Filing Reveals 5M Monthly Uniques For Its Mobile Apps Friday, November 18th: Capcom’s Snoopy Street Fair Serves Up a Nostalgic Free-to-Play Treat on iOS China, Apple’s Second Most Lucrative Market, is About to Get Better For Developers With New Payment Options Put “-Ville” in a Mobile App’s Name. Risk Litigation From Zynga. Zynga’s Daily Active Users on iOS, Android Reached 11.1M in October New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: EA, TinyCo, King.com and More Saturday, November 19th: New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: EA, TinyCo, King.com and More Inside Social Games Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, November 14th: Tetris Battle’s Slow Burn on Facebook Proves Brands Staying Power on the Platform Mafia Wars 2 Tops This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by MAU Vostu’s Gol Mania Scores a Goal for Realtime Soccer Gameplay on Facebook The First 18 Minutes of Zynga’s CastleVille More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco Tuesday, November 15th: A&E’s Storage Wars Fights for Space in Your Facebook Gaming Rotation Woodland Heroes Brings the Fun of Battleship-style Strategy Gaming to Facebook Zynga Commits Mafia Wars Shakedown to iOS, No Connection to Facebook Versions Wednesday, November 16th: Bubble Witch Saga, Diamond Dash Top This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: 6waves Lolapps, Storm8, TinyCo and More Sony’s Japan-Only PlayStation Community Highlights Growing Social Network Trend in Consoles Hardcore Social Game Company Kabam Gets into Pre-Paid Gift Card Business MindJolt’s Bubble Atlantis for Facebook Shoots onto the Match-3 Puzzle Game Scene Thursday, November 17th: Zynga Brings the King of Pop to CityVille in Michael Jackson Branded Promotion New Hires in Social Gaming: Zynga, Kixeye and PopCap Pangalore Debuts HTML5-based Facebook Games Portal Friday, November 18th: Family Feud & Friends Top This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games Facebook Updates Credits Payflow, Adds International Payment Methods, and Updates Transfer Policy Bonfire’s Hooked Reels in Card Game Fans on Facebook What We’re Playing This Week on Inside Social Games Put “-Ville” in a Mobile App Name, Risk Litigation From Zynga Social Gaming News Roundup: Google+, Car Town and Nordeus Saturday, November 19th: New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: 6waves Lolapps, EA, TinyCo and More Inside Facebook Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Monday, November 14th: Page Tabs, Yahoo, The Guardian, WaPo Reader, Scribd and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU Featured Facebook Campaigns: John Deere, Flex Watches, JC Penney, Ann Taylor, Toyota, Visa and More Facebook Adds User Subscription Recommendations Based on Page Likes Facebook Platform Updates Expose High Scores, Location, Recent Activity More Details on Inside Social Apps 2012 – February 8th and 9th in San Francisco Tuesday, November 15th: “Titanic,” Books, TV, Levi’s, Zynga, Music and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Shoutlet, Work4 Labs, Buddy Media and More Facebook Marketing Showcase: Athletic Apparel Brands Make a Play on Facebook Facebook Picks Up Veterans of Second Life-Maker Linden Lab in Talent Acquisition of MailRank Interview: Veteran Product Lead Josh Elman on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter — and Joining Greylock Wednesday, November 16th: Pages, Horoscopes, Photos, Birthdays, The Guardian, Windows and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by DAU Facebook Asking Users to Tag Photo Locations New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: JibJab, Live World, Acquinity Interactive and More Reviews and Discussion Tabs Now Removed from Facebook App Profile Pages Facebook Testing “See Likes,” Updating Language for Page Insights Thursday, November 17th: Facebook Now Showing Up to Six Display Ads on Some Pages TBG Digital Study: High Conversion Performance in Facebook’s Social Context Ads Facebook Careers Postings: Patents, Engineering, Mobile and More Facebook Updates Photo Uploading, Events UI Facebook Hires and Departures: Counsel, Engineering, Recruiting and More Facebook Updates Credits Payflow, Adds International Payment Methods, and Updates Transfer Policy Friday, November 18th: Page Tools, Livestream, Store Locator, Photos, Windows, Chase and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU How Brands Can Use Facebook’s Subscribe Button to Drive Referral Traffic to Their Website TrustedID Acquires Unsubscribe.com and its Social Monitor Application Facebook Roundup: Pircy, Privacy, Congress, Spam, Google+, PayPal and More Saturday, November 19th: New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Live World, Acquinity Interactive, TinyCo and More

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