Nielsen briefly described how much the mobile software market in the United States has changed over the past year, sharing a curious infographic. 

Today, the Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 conference dedicated to the development of flash, social and mobile games opened in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel at 10.00.

Android holds a dominant position in the mobile systems market thanks to Samsung’s good sales; Windows Phone has doubled its share in the American and European markets in a year.  

Staircase3 has found out which smartphone is the most popular among Android devices, on which devices it is best to test your own applications, and also why the fragmentation of the “green” platform is growing from year to year. 

Thanks to the GREE report for the third fiscal quarter (the company has it in January-March 2012), it became clear what amounts a developer can count on whose games fall into the top-grossing iOS applications. 

At the top of the free iPhone games chart is the 100 Floors puzzle. On the iPad, the situation is different: the Highway Rider racing runner is the most popular. As for the growth rate, Ice Rage hockey is out of competition among free iOS games. 

According to unofficial data, there are very few left to the mark of 100 thousand unique applications on the Microsoft platform.

On June 7-8, 2012, a conference for mobile application developers Mdday#MoCO will be held in Moscow. It will be held within the framework of the VIII-th business forum “World of Mobile Content 2012” (MoCO).

The social giant recently bought Wild Needle studio for an unknown amount, which developed games for a casual female audience. 

Two big events of the Russian gaming industry will take place this week: Flash GAMM! Moscow 2012 and the main conference of domestic developers of computer and video games KRI 2012.

The high level of fragmentation on Android prevents developers from making money on their own applications, says David Roberts, executive director of PopCap Games. 

The countdown to the mobile gaming conference – White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, which will be held in St. Petersburg on June 14-15 during the St. Petersburg White Nights, has begun. At the event, it will be possible to communicate with representatives of Rovio, Disney, Google, Microsoft, Flurry Analytics, Big Fish Games, Nevosoft, Social Quantum, Alawar and more.

The most popular smartphone in the land of the rising sun turned out to be a gadget from Apple. It has 30% of the Japanese market. 

Just a few days ago it became known that GameDuell, one of the central players in the German mobile software market, and Vostu, Brazil’s largest social gaming company, announced support for GetJar’s new virtual currency – GetJar Gold. Read below about why they decided to support an independent Android app store.    

Facebook seems to have passed the time when projects were ported to iOS from Facebook, now they are porting to Facebook from iOS. At least that’s exactly what the developers from the Halfbrick studio did when their unpretentious, but extremely popular arcade game Jetpack Joyride in the iOS version scored more than 25 million downloads. 

The expected shooter N.O.V.A. 3, despite the high price and a relatively small target audience for this platform, turned out to be at the top of the world charts the very next day after the release.  

There was information that the search corporation is developing a single gaming hub that will connect all gamers on the Android platform. There is also an opinion that the new service will be an analogue of the Facebook App Center announced recently.  

The creators of Angry Birds, the most downloaded mobile game and, there is such a suspicion, the most popular game of the last five years in general, announced that their new project will be a remake of the popular puzzle, and not the original title. 

Kingdoms of Camelot, after a two-week pause, once again leads the top of the most profitable games on the iPhone; Angry Birds Space is descending down the “standings” lower and lower, while managing to gain 1 billion downloads; Smurfs’ Village after the update is in the top ten on all leading digital platforms.