Sales from smartphones last Thanksgiving, compared to the same day last year, jumped by 221%, and on Black Friday – by 128%, according to the commercial startup Branding Brand.

Freeze Tag Studio has signed an agreement with Activision Mobile Publishing and Flurry to publish the mobile game Grimm Reaper: Hidden Tales.

Facebook has launched a comprehensive Droidfooding program for the transition of its employees to Android devices.

Another sex scandal in the mobile app market. Virtual companions from the children’s game Boyfriend Maker turned out to be very frank guys, ready to talk to a real girl on any forbidden topic. For this application, they removed it from the shelves of the digital store. 

The Korean company managed to sell more than 5 million boxes with its tablet phone among its suppliers worldwide in two months.

Microsoft Corporation is negotiating to open specialized points of sale of its own devices and software in Europe during 2013, The Financial Times reports.

Task: determine the number of downloads that our application will need to get into the top Google Play.There is no material of their own yet, but I sincerely wish that not only readers shared and exchanged experiences.

The introduction of HTML5 support is aimed at the eastern, not the Western market, GREE Japan employees told our colleagues from PocketGamer.

There are only 1,421 gaming apps available for Windows 8 right now. This figure was announced at the London Games Conference 2012 by Andrew Webber, head of Microsoft’s marketing department.

Now Microsoft Studios is competing with Google and Apple, said Phil Harrison, vice president of the interactive entertainment division at Microsoft.

The volume of the mobile market in the world will double over the past year, reaching $30 billion, according to experts from ABI Research.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: how to become a millionaire by developing games and apps for the App Store; who are American mobile app developers really are; why card games are so popular and much more. 

There is censorship in the foggy Albion: a mobile game has been banned in the UK, one of the heroes of which is the naked son of Prince Charles. 

In Finland, Angry Birds soda sells better than Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Finns from Supercell, according to unofficial information, were offered about $ 600 million for their company.

It is believed that a single–player game with a good plot, designed for a single passage, as a phenomenon has not really caught on on mobile platforms. The experience of Telltale Games suggests the opposite. We decided to reflect on this topic.    

Official sales of the iPad Mini in Russia will start in mid-January, sources close to one of the major distributors of Apple devices tell Izvestia.

Yesterday, the app store for Windows 8-based devices reached the mark of 20 thousand applications. 

Ed Rumley from Chillingo, in an interview with Inside Mobile Apps, talked about how long they have been working with projects, and also noted that fragmentation is in his company’s favor.