This week’s headlines from across Inside Network

A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 31 and Jan. 4.

Inside Mobile Apps

Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.

Monday, Dec. 31

• Inside Mobile Apps’s 2012 year in review

Tuesday, Jan. 1

• Guest Post: Why developers should implement a CMS into their app

Wednesday, Jan. 2

• Flurry: 50M iOS and Android devices activated and 1.76B apps downloaded during Christmas week
• The Inside Network Job Board: KIXEYE, Pandora, Glu and more
• Prepare for your next vacation with TripLingo
• Storm8 racks up 2M downloads on Christmas Day

Thursday, Jan. 3

• Lord of the Dragons, The Room, Fantasica and more on this week’s top grossing apps charts
• New hires in mobile apps

Friday, Jan. 4

• Pocket Gems and W3i expand Android monetization partnership
• Tell a tall tale with Story
• Get it done with Wunderlist
• Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• W3i’s Erik Lundberg on Android games monetization, tablet dominance, closing the gap with iOS
• Mobile news roundup: An Angry Birds Christmas, Ubuntu for mobile and a Ouya competitor

Inside Social Games

Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.

Monday, Dec. 31

• Bubble Safari Ocean this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
• Megapolis review
• The biggest surprises of 2012 in social and mobile gaming

Tuesday, Jan. 1

• The Top 25 Facebook games of January 2013
• Nemo’s Reef (iOS/Android) review

Wednesday, Jan. 2

• Guest Post: Top 5 Reasons ‘Stealth Mode’ Will Kill Your Startup
• RAD Soldiers (iOS) review
• Candy Crush Saga returns to the top of the fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
• The Inside Network Job Board: KIXEYE, Pandora, Glu and more
• Village Life review
• Holidays prove big success for Disney Mobile and Storm8
• New hires in social games: Gloops and Plarium

Thursday, Jan. 3

• Pocket Gems and W3i expand Android monetization partnership
• Offensive Combat review
• Clayton Stark opens up about Kixeye Canada
• Into the Dead (iOS) review

Friday, Jan. 4

• Kabam shutting down Thirst of Night at the end of this month
• W3i’s Erik Lundberg on Android games monetization, tablet dominance, closing the gap with iOS
• Fresh Deck Poker review
• Bake Shop Drop cooks up winning numbers amont this week’s emerging Facebook games
• Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps San Francisco
• wePlay (iOS/Android) review
• Social games news roundup: Infographics, chimps and ghost stories

Inside Facebook

Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.

Monday, Dec. 31

• Guest Post: 2013 Social Media Predictions for Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and more
• The Year in Facebook Advertising 2012

• Top 25 Facebook Pages January 2013
• Top 25 Facebook Apps January 2013

Wednesday, Jan. 2

• How Facebook’s latest monetization efforts may take shape in 2013
• SlideShare, Rotten Tomatoes, Waze and more on this week’s top 20 non-game Facebook apps growing by MAU
• Facebook shares back up to $28; company to report Q4 earnings Jan. 30

Thursday, Jan. 3

• Blackberry, Trident, Grammarly and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for product and service pages
• Facebook to begin bundling breaking changes quarterly
• Facebook allows ‘flexible sentences’ for Open Graph activity
• Facebook adds asynchronous voice messages to Messenger app; begins testing VoIP in Canada

Friday, Jan. 4

• Guest Post: Deeper Metrics, Advertising Everywhere and a Showdown with Google, 2013 is the Year Facebook Grows Up
• Facebook starts to roll out Pages Manager app for Android
• BO.LT, Circle, Tango, MyFitnessPal, more on this week’s emerging Facebook apps
• Facebook hires: data protection counsel, icon designer, payment partnerships manager, Indonesia growth manager, more
• Facebook career postings: revenue analyst, recruiters, client partners and more
• Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps San Francisco

Inside Social Commerce

Tracking the convergence of social media and commerce.

• More tablets than smartphones activated this past holiday season, says Flurry study
• Price drop alert bookmarklet Clipix redesigned for mobile users
• New studies show e-tailers lost 18 billion last year from abandoned shopping carts
• Registration Now Open for Inside Social Apps San Francisco