Apple is still the main smartphone manufacturer in the United States, but in Europe, the “apple” company is among the catching up, Kantar analysts write in their latest report.

On the eve of the New Year, analytical companies continue to delight with their predictions about how much the mobile market will earn in future years. This time the forecast was shared by the Swedish Berg Insight.

The most important news and articles of the last week: daily revenues from the App Store are growing fastest in Russia; Flurry talked about the most successful game genres in terms of profitability; Playheaven shared the secrets of a threefold increase in eCPM and much more.

The other day, the publisher Square Enix released the next chapter of its cult series Final Fantasy IV for iOS. However, more attention of online media was attracted not so much by the fact of the release itself as by the trailer accompanying the launch of the project.

Funny Bunny Tales (Adventures of a Funny Rabbit) positions itself as a children’s game, but it will also be interesting for adults who have enough free time.

Mochi Media flash gaming service in cooperation with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com conducted a survey of Flash game developers. As a result, it turned out that many of them have already switched to mobile “rails”, but have not figured out marketing and monetization.

Kabam’s first mobile game Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North became the highest-grossing app in the Apple iTunes Appstore by the end of 2012 and allowed the studio to increase its revenues by 60% compared to the previous year.

Marketing company Distimo has published an overview of the global mobile OS market for 2012. According to him, Russia is ahead of all countries in terms of revenue growth from the iPad. 

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Starting today, Apple has officially gone on Christmas vacation. During this period, developers will not be able to upload new apps or updates to existing ones to the App Store. 

Yesterday, Google announced a new opportunity to promote applications in its market – this is the localization of promo graphics for programs by country. 

I know one person who works as the head of the security service. Once upon a time, he worked as a shift supervisor at one of the largest casinos in Moscow.

Appnique startup has offered a new service for developers to help their applications become “more visible” in mobile stores.

According to the latest quarterly report of analysts from comScore, the total share of smartphones in the five leading European markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) reached 54.6%. 

The developers of the Moscow company ZeptoLab have delighted all their fans with the release of a new game. This time there was no funny Nyama. Starring puddings.

Following the global iTunes update, the Apple company decided to take up the game collections in the App Store tightly.   

The American company in its corporate blog told about the four main trends of the outgoing 2012 in the mobile advertising market.

The Ukrainian edition of Forbes reported that according to the statistics of the two largest Ukrainian mobile operators “Kyivstar” and “MTS Ukraine” in recent months, the largest growth in the number of devices was recorded on the Android platform.