<p>Tango, a mobile messaging and video calling app with now over 120 million members worldwide, is expanding its service by opening its platform to third-party developers. By integrating the newly launched Tango software development kit (SDK) into their own applications, mobile publishers will be able to add a social layer into their apps meant to better reflect users' real-world connections with family and friends. Gameloft is the first of a dozen or so launch partners to debut apps using the new Tango platform.</p><p>Gameloft will soon be releasing an app in called "Candy Block Breaker for Tango" on iOS, and that will be then followed by "JetPack Jinx for Tango," developed by Bubble Gum Interactive.</p><p>This is a major move for the mobile social communications service, Tango, which has been steadily transforming itself from just a video calling app to rival Skype into something that more closely resembles a mobile social network. Already, users could call, video chat, text, leave voicemails and video messages, and even play games within Tango's mobile application, but this is the first time the company has made access to its so-called "social graph" to other applications.</p><p>According to Tango CEO Eric Setton, Tango users have been playing tens of millions of games within the app every month something that would see the app ranked toward the top of the app store charts if it called itself a mobile game, he says.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/mobile-messaging-app-tango-debuts-a-content-platform-will-now-power-the-social-layer-of-third-party-apps-games/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/tangos-plan-for-world-dominance-after-hitting-120m-users-bringing-its-messaging-platform-into-mobile-games/">Tango&#039;s plan for world dominance after 120M users: Bringing its messaging ...</a> (VentureBeat)</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/06/06/tango-built-its-video-chat-empire-now-its-taking-on-the-mobile-gaming-market/">Tango built its video chat empire. Now it&#039;s taking on the mobile gaming market</a> (GigaOM)</p><p><a href="http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/06/06/tango-launches-asia-style-games-platform-for-its-120m-users-snags-gameloft-as-launch-partner/">Tango launches Asia-style games platform for its 120m users, snags Gameloft as ...</a> (The Next Web)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dc9E_RWHYWc90AMK8gYKkvAxM68bM&ned=us">6 additional articles.</a></p>