A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between March 11 and March. 15.
Inside Mobile Apps
Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.
Monday, March 11
- Publish your own magazine with Coverstory Casual
- Angry Birds Toons to be accessible within Angry Birds games, will begin airing March 16 to 17
- Early Bird Rate for Inside Social Apps Ends This Week
- Take command of color with ColorBurst
- LinkedIn to acquire Pulse
- Icomania, Angry Birds, Vector and more on this week’s top free app charts
Tuesday, March 12
- Execution Labs re-opens applications for its hybrid incubator for indie mobile game developers
- Flick, swipe and pinch your way to today’s forecast with Weathercube
- Facebook announces Mobile DevCon series coming to New York, London, Seoul
- The Inside Network Job Board: KIXEYE, Wooga, PopCap Games and more
- CocoaChina’s Fishing Joy generating more than $6M a month worldwide
- Make your own comic with Comic Craft
- Glu Mobile launches first real-money gambling game
- Tapjoy sees ad revenue spike nearly 50 percent during holidays
- Temple Run Oz, Sonic Dash, Toy Story and more on this week’s top paid app charts
Wednesday, March 13
- Keep a daily journal with Grid Diary
- Andy Rubin steps down as head of Android, Sundar Pichai tapped as replacement
- Games on Line platform reach 100M downloads
Thursday, March 14
- Discover new cuisines with Panna
- Hear it out loud with VoxDox
- Onavo looks at the market share for app discovery apps
- Samsung lifts the lid off the Galaxy S4, packs a 5” screen and 13MP rear-facing camera
Friday, March 15
Inside Social Games
Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, March 11
- Early Bird Rate for Inside Social Apps Ends This Week
- PlayGem Social Backgammon review
- Dragon City inhabits top spot on this week’s list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU
- Sonic Dash (iOS) review
- Playdemic credits Zynga with Village Life’s success, launching new game features soon
Tuesday, March 12
- Insanity review
- The Inside Network Job Board: KIXEYE, Wooga, PopCap Games and more
- CocoaChina’s Fishing Joy generating more than $6M a month worldwide
- Namco “retiring” Facebook games
- Deepworld (iOS) review
Wednesday, March 13
- Godsrule: War of Mortals review
- Pet Rescue Saga reclaims top spot among fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU
- Kabam officially reveals it’s in the publishing game
- Lexmee (iOS) review
- New hires in social games: Social Point and Big Viking Games
- GameMaker: Studio now supports Linux publishing
Thursday, March 14
- Arkadium closes $5M in Series A funding
- Inferno review
- Duke Nukem II blasting onto iOS
- Castle Champions (iOS) review
Friday, March 15
- Ridiculous Fishing (iOS) review
- Puzzle Chasers on top of emerging Facebook games for the second week in a row
- Relic Quest review
- Social games news roundup
Inside Facebook
Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers.
Monday, March 11
- Early Bird Rate for Inside Social Apps Ends This Week
- Facebook adds more prompts for users to Like pages on desktop, mobile
- Facebook tests new ways to promote page content organically in users’ feeds
- Facebook ‘focused on basics’ for News Feed and mobile ads
Tuesday, March 12
- Facebook announces Mobile DevCon series coming to New York, London, Seoul
- What’s old is new again with Facebook’s latest News Feed update
- Facebook removes ‘unlike page’ option in new News Feed
- Facebook tests redesigned share flow to help users choose where to post
Wednesday, March 13
- Facebook rolls out user Timeline redesign including new sections for movies, books, apps and more
- Facebook gives developers more ways to have their apps featured on user Timelines
- With Netflix Social, Facebook adds another key piece to its emerging video strategy
- Starbucks, Taco Bell, Coca-Cola and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for food and beverage pages
Thursday, March 14
- Facebook platform industry hires: HootSuite, Kenshoo, Work4 Labs
- New Facebook admin panel highlights reach and pushes Promoted Posts
- Facebook acquires Hot Studio design team
- Guest Post: Is Facebook More Innovative Than Google With Online Advertising?
Friday, March 15