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This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network Posted: 08 May 2011 08:00 AM PDT Here are all the latest headlines from around Inside Network this past week. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms, and virtual goods. Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Emerging Paid iOS Apps: Non-Gaming Apps Rise On The Charts Protect the Stars on iOS in Celebrity Bodyguard Monday Mobile Roundup: RIM, Mobile Payments, Lawsuits, & More Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 EA to Acquire Australian Mobile Game Developer Firemint Emerging Top-Grossing iOS Apps: Any Music Downloader, MMORPGs & Books Rise Glu Forsees Slower Revenue Growth on Uncertainty Around Apple Offer Wall Policy Ponies: More Violent Than Most Think in Unpleasant Horse on iOS King.com Games Gain Growth Through Cross-Platform Play Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Wednesday Mobile Roundup: iTunes Competitors, BlackBerry, Google, & More Android Revenue Still One-Eighth to One-Tenth of iOS, Glu Says Emerging Top Free Apps on iOS: Office Jerk, Talking Ben, Planetary  HD New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sharkius Games, Idel Games, Loot Drop & More Security Specialist Says He Was Able to De-Anonymize Device IDs of OpenFeint Users Firemint’s Acquisition Price Was Less Than $25 Million, EA Says EA Says iOS Revenues Doubled in The Fourth Quarter From a Year Earlier Thursday, May 5th, 2011 Mobile Advertising Network Jumptap Raises $25 Million From Existing Investors New Hires in Mobile: Big Blue Bubble, Booyah, Gameloft, & More Thursday Mobile Round-Up: Yudu’s Subscription Product, Android Shipments Trade Nations Comes To Facebook Following Success on iOS Messaging Startup GroupMe Acquires Blackberry Developer Sensobi Friday, May 6th, 2011 Friday Mobile Round-Up: Janrain Social Log-In, Visa Mobile Payments Developers Still in the Dark About Apple’s Policies on Incentivized Installs, Rankings Inside Social Games Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Diamond Dash Slowing Down On This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU YouRiding Bodyboarding Battle Hopes For Easy Ride On Facebook With Competitive Play, Future Mobile Apps Bubble Saga Captivates Early Crowd, Shows Strong Growth Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 Kabam Declares Global Warfare on Facebook’s Core Gamers King.com Games Gain Growth Through Cross-Platform Play N.O.V.A. Elite’s User Figures Blast Into Orbit Thanks to Impressive Graphics and Competitive Gameplay Top 25 Facebook Games For May 2011 Zynga Games Command One Quarter Of This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by DAU Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Gourmet Ranch Keeps Growth Fresh With Fishing Expansion, Royal Wedding Campaign New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Loot Drop, Synapse Games, Sharkius Games & More EA Looking to Get More “Digital Service” Social Games Onto Facebook NBA Dynasty No “Rival” to NBA Legend, Despite Shared License Thursday, May 5th, 2011 New Hires in Social Gaming: Booyah, CrowdStar, Cie Games, & More Trade Nations Comes To Facebook Following Success on iOS Facebook Deepens Partnership with TrialPay DealSpot to Offer Credits for Watching Videos Farkle Pro’s Pay-to-Play Dice Rolling Sees Steady Growth Friday, May 6th, 2011 Traditional Video Game Titles And Tie-Ins Top This Week’s List Of Emerging Facebook Games Recent Zynga Filing Shows $490 Million in Funding Zynga, Other Social Game Developers, Using More Advanced Game-Play Tech Social Gaming Roundup: MyFarm Experiment, Social Startups, LOGIN Conference, & More Inside Facebook Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Sunday, May 1st, 2011 Will Facebook Profiles Gain Richer Open Graph Integration This Year? Monday, May 2nd, 2011 Music, Page Tools, Photos, Zoosk and More on This Week’s Top 20 Growing Facebook Apps by MAU Featured Facebook Campaigns: Frito-Lay, Snickers, American Express, Carnival Cruises and More With 44 of the Top 100 Pages Promoting Music, Relaunched “Music on Facebook” Page Shows Site’s Renewed Focus Facebook Page Admins Can Offer Pre-Paid Deals Directly With ThruSocial and FaceItPages Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Kontangent, Nanigans, Syncapse, Vitrue and Wildfire Enrique Igelsias, Football, TV, Disney, Converse and More on This Week’s Top 15 Growing Facebook Pages Facebook Sponsored Stories Ads Have 46% Higher CTR, 18% Lower Cost Per Fan Says TBG Digital Test Causes to Bring the Big Donor Communication Experience to All Donors and Facebook Pages Facebook for Blackberry PlayBook Includes Core Features but Lags Far Behind iOS and Android Facebook Allows Users to Hide Recent Activity Story Types From Their Profile Walls Facebook Tech Ops Exec Jonathan Heiliger to Depart by End of Summer Top 25 Facebook Games For May 2011 Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Birthdays, Security, Badges, Mobile and Spotify on This Week’s Top 20 Facebook Apps by DAU The 25 Most Liked Pages on Facebook, Spring 2011 Facebook Ads API Tool Efficient Frontier Acquires Page Management Tool Context Optional Facebook’s Sel-Serve Ad Tool Now Includes a Creative Library New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: Blue Fang Games, Idle Games, Kabam & More Facebook Notifies Admins That Content but Not Members of MOst Old Groups Will Be Migrated Thursday, May 5th, 2011 Facebook Careers Postings: Recruiting, Ads, Engineering and More Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Recruiting, Mobile, Sales and More Facebook Allows @ Mention Tags of Friends to be Shortened Facebook Deepens Partnership with TrialPay DealSpot to Offer Credits for Watching Videos Early Look: RootMusic Adds Like-Gating, Email Capture and More to BandPage Facebook Rolling Out Major Update to Ad Analytics with Audience Funnels and Conversion Data Friday, May 6th, 2011 Video, Friends, Chase Community Giving, Bands, Cards and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps India, Brazil, Egypt Among Countries With Most New Facebook Users in April 2011 Refreshed Facebook for BlackBerry Improves Integration with Native Contacts App Platform Update: Re-Authentication, Raised App Tester Capp Facebook Roundup: Govt Requests, Stock, Skype, Tablet Apps, Like & Send Buttons, Syria, Zuckerberg and More

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