At the last Vas Forum conference, Dmitry Martynov from Google shared the secrets of successful applications.

Fiksu representatives tried to figure out how the release of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C affected the mobile application market.

SuperData, an American research company, reports that the cost of acquiring users has exceeded the average income that developers of games for tablets and smartphones receive.

Japanese messenger LINE has added another 100 million users in just 4 months. Now the company intends to raise 500 million by the end of 2014.

Monetization is the very word that keeps developers in constant suspense. To better understand this issue, we suggest considering the opinions of experienced representatives of the gaming industry.

GameFounders is the first company dedicated to accelerating the growth of gaming industry startups in Europe. App 2 Top talked to her co-founder Kadri Ugand during their demo day at the Slush conference in Helsinki.

Many developers believe that push notifications are nothing more than just spam, and users prefer to disable them altogether. According to PlayHaven, the situation should look different.

Samuli Syvähuoko is an experienced veteran of the Finnish gaming industry, a former employee of Remedy Entertainment, as well as the founder of Fathammer and Recoil. App 2 Top met with him on the eve of the Slush conference in Helsinki to talk about his latest project – Game Brewery.

Every day, 5,000 new user companies join the Google Apps platform. However, the update of the Apps Marketplace for Business shows that Google does not want to stop there.

At the International Games Summit in Montreal, sociologist Jen Whitson, a researcher from Technoculture, Arts and Games, explained the impact of analytical data on the games industry.

Companies releasing their games to the vastness of app stores cannot afford to leave such an important case to chance. They must know how to attract the attention of users to their developments. Statistics will help you imagine the scale of the market.

Facebook and Parse invite representatives of the mobile industry to take part in FbStart Moscow, which will be held on November 28.

A recent Rumble study found that owners of Android devices are several times more likely to share articles with friends than owners of iOS devices.

All studios of the Japanese Square Enix will develop mobile and online titles. 

According to IDC, global shipments of tablet devices increased to 47.6 million in the third quarter of 2013. This indicates a 7% increase compared to the figures of the previous quarter and 36% compared to the figures for the same quarter last year.  And again, the bulk of deliveries are accounted for by Android tablets.

One of the leaders of the Runet Mail.ru The Group and the world-renowned research company Nielsen Holdings N.V. conducted a joint analysis of the mobile industry in Russia and the world.

The British Marmalade has announced the creation of the publishing division Marmalade Play. Its main goal, according to the official press release, is to help developers “get into the mobile market painlessly.”

Telltale Games has announced that its latest title The Wolf Among Us will be ported to iOS this fall. The company also pleased the owners of Sony Vita, who will also be able to install the game on their devices.

The other day Supermagical, an arcade game from Super Mega Team, migrated from the category of free-to-play apps to premium on the App Store.