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This week’s headlines from across Inside Network Posted: 01 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you from Mar. 26 to Apr. 1 Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Mar. 26 GREE's second North American title sees players nurturing an Alien Family Emerging free iOS Apps: The Hunger Games, Geared and Ninjago: Rise of the Snakes What Apple's UDID phase out means to the iOS ecosystem Tuesday, Mar. 27 Apsalar introduces even more advanced user segmenting analytics Castle Age comes to iOS with gorgeous art but well-worn gameplay Millennial amends S-1: Now reaches 300 million users, target share price upped to $11-$13 Addmired nets $8 million Series B, changes name to Machine Zone Emerging paid iOS apps: Angry Birds dethrones Draw Something Adobe allies with Unity for Flash Player 11.2 release, introduces premium APIs Wednesday, Mar. 28 The Playforge remains independent as it branches out with Tree World On the run with Katniss in The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire Apple saves print media? Newsstand applications earning $70,000 a day on iPad New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: East Side Games, Sojo, BrightRoll and more Only two percent of Android apps use in-app purchases Emerging top grossing iOS Apps: Angry Birds Space, Galaxy Empire and Tap Paradise Cove Thursday, Mar. 29 Escape from the 35 rooms with DOOORS Kontagent forms alliance, releases API to standardize mobile advertising New hires in mobile: Gameloft, GREE and PayPal User acquisition costs rise as Apple's bot crackdown drops downloads, says Fiksu Ngmoco's chief publishing officer resigns Friday, Mar. 30 Crytek brings its graphical prowess to iOS with Fibble Millennial's Media's shares hit $25, but dip on second day of trading Kontagent adds funnels and custom dashboards to its mobile analytics Google Play delivers a quarter of the revenues Apple and Amazon do, says Flurry Bird-free physics puzzling in space with Gravity Fleet Mobile App News Roundup: DeNA, Rovio and RIM Saturday, Mar. 31 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Sojo, East Side Games, High 5 Games and more Inside Social Games Covering all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, Mar. 26 Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers mixes hidden object gameplay and wildlife education on Facebook Zynga Slingo tops the list of fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU Build, grow and produce with Township Tuesday, Mar. 27 Mob Science raises $1M in funding, preps mid-core RPG for launch on Zynga.com Ludia invites players to "come on down" for The Price Is Right Slots Adobe allies with Unity for Flash Player 11.2 release, introduces premium APIs Wednesday, Mar. 28 CelebrityMe wants to bring out players' inner stars on Facebook RockYou settles with FTC over security flaw charges Zynga Slingo wins again with this week's fastest-growing Facebook games by DAU Two genres collide in Vostu's Flying Kingdoms New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: MachineZone, Bally, PT Gaming and more 6waves drops "Lolapps" name entirely, announces publishing deals with 32 social developers Thursday, Mar. 29 Fling a Thing brings physics-based bug-twanging to Facebook Zynga execs selling over 20M shares in secondary offering New hires in social gaming: Akamon Entertainment, Double Down Interactive and Zynga Rocket Ninja moves away from games, focuses on 3D 'lightweight dating' Friday, Mar. 30 Galaxy Online II warps atop this week's emerging games list Scream if you want to go faster with Rollercoaster Mania The Hunger Games Adventures aims for the adventure game bullseye on Facebook Social games news roundup: Martha Stewart, Disney and Gangs of Boomtown Saturday, Mar. 31 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SpeedDate.com, High 5 Games, Legacy Games and more Inside Facebook Tracking Facebook and the Facebook platform for developers and marketers. Monday, Mar. 26 Draw Something, Rotten Tomatoes, Cities I've Visited, more on this week's top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU App aims to simplify Facebook ad offerings, lets advertisers visualize 'premium' units 'Offers' on Facebook exclusive to premium advertisers for now, will be free for all pages later this year Facebook expands Sponsored Stories in News Feed with image, more social context Mediabistro's Facebook Marketing Boot Camp Happening This Week Facebook adds contact form to ad dashboard, aims to respond in 4 hours Tuesday, Mar. 27 Clickable releases new dashboard tool to visualize Facebook, search campaign performance 'Hunger Games,' LMFAO, Miracle-Gro, more on this week's top 20 growing Facebook pages Facebook reminds page owners of pages they haven't posted to lately New Facebook platform industry hires: Kontagent, TBG Digital, BranchOut Users spent more than 10.5B total minutes per day on Facebook in January, not including mobile use Facebook amends S-1 filing to note Yahoo patent suit, Ceglia updates Wednesday, Mar. 28 Zynga, Draw Something, Cities I've Visited, ESPN, more on this week's top 20 growing Facebook apps by DAU Facebook now features app activity more prominently on Timeline New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Spruce Media, W3i, OfferPop and more Facebook gives permalinks to individual comments, hides potential spam Thursday, Mar. 29 ReverbNation adds feature to let artists compare their Facebook ad campaigns to those in similar genres Facebook to adjust calculations for total check-ins displayed on place pages Facebook tests simpler interface for creating ads, targeting users Facebook hires: privacy, public policy, data centers, mobile, more Facebook career postings: engineering, London, account management, more Friday, Mar. 30 Local Facebook pages outperform corporate pages in terms of reach, engagement percentage, study finds Price Is Right, Pose, Change.org, Amex, hi5, more on this week's top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU Why Timeline engagement 'studies' should be ignored Romney leads, Gingrich loses fans, plus new insights from Timeline this week on Inside Facebook's Election Tracker Facebook roundup: platform updates, trading, IPO, Google, more Saturday, Mar. 31 New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Shutterstock, Rebel Entertainment, SponsorPay and more

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