During the renewal of the IPO application, it became known that in the first quarter of this year, Zuckerberg’s social network earned more than $ 1 billion. 

Autumn is still very, very far away, and the network is already agitated by numerous rumors and speculation about the new, sorry, just about the iPhone 5. According to them, it will be small and thin.

According to the latest NPD data, 40% of users, after playing a freemium game, make an in-game payment.

How much mobile games earn per year and in which markets, what the average mobile player looks like and what types of monetization there are, how much mobile gaming advertising brings and what the industry will be like in three years – analysts from Superdata told about this and much more.

The Redmonds made an unexpected offer to the developers: to transfer their applications to the newly opened new Windows Phone Marketplace markets by Microsoft itself.

Analysts from Javelin Strategy & Research believe that very soon the share of Android tablets on the market will be greater than the share of tablets from Apple. 

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and Amazon Appstore are the fastest growing app stores, – Distimo and CSS Insight claim in their new report. 

Sony has published an open beta of the PlayStation Suite SDK, which allows developers to create games and applications for both Android devices and PS Vita.

The top five highest-grossing games of this week in the US version of iTunes Apple Store and Google Play. From now on, on Thursdays on App2Top.ru .

The truth is told: “appetite comes with eating“: less than a month after the OMGPOP takeover, Zynga is already in search of another prey. But this time she is ready to spend much more than $180 million.

Yesterday it became known that the Android version of the arcade hit Temple Run from Imangi Studios was downloaded more than 10 million times in 20 days.

Casual Games Association (CGA), an international organization that holds a series of annual Casual Connect conferences in different parts of the world, is expanding its field of activity to the east. On May 22-24, 2012, the conference will be held in Singapore for the first time.

We present a new series of virtual round table issues. Today we are visiting major publishers of mobile games – Big Fish Games, Nevosoft and Alawar. Experts will discuss the phenomenon of the Draw Something game project: what is its uniqueness, what determined the success, etc.

It’s all about search engine optimization. Fiksu found out that in most cases, users find applications in Android stores thanks to search, not charts and ratings.

Revenues from micropayments in mobile games by the end of 2012 in the United States will amount to $ 500 million. This is $150 million more than last year. 

As soon as Apple released a new iPad, rumors began to spread about a new, new iPad. They say it will be quite small. Why its release will not take place, read below.  

Amazon has improved the mechanism of so-called parental control on its devices. After that, it gave developers the opportunity to set the price for in-game purchases above $ 20.

Google’s mobile search platform has doubled its share of the smartphone market in the People’s Republic of China. 

The latest mobile release of Rockstar Games proves that paid apps can also be very profitable. However, only if there is a powerful IP.