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.

Smashing Ideas, a division of Random House, has published a report according to which about half of American smartphone owners spend about 200 hours a year on mobile games.

Forbes magazine published a small note explaining the reasons for the success of Finnish mobile games for iPad. After the games Oceanhorn, Angry Birds Star Wars 2 and several Supercell projects took the first place in the list of the most popular iOS tablet games in the United States, many began to think about the secret of Finnish entertainment.

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.

The administration of the Google Play Store mobile software store has finally begun to take tablets seriously. Android Police reports that the Google Play Store now only shows tablet-optimized programs when you enter the store from a tablet computer.

Apple has added a video to the product page in the App Store. A similar honor was awarded to the game Clumsy Ninja, which is advertised with a minute trailer.

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.

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A brand new App Insight Report for the third quarter of 2013 from InMobi has been published. The document names the most interesting current trends in the modern mobile entertainment advertising market.

GameAnalytics, a company engaged in analytical services, has announced the beginning of cooperation with Unity Technologies. Together, they will transfer GameAnalytics technologies and tools to the Unity Asset Store, which should make the life of game developers much easier. This is reported in the official press release.

The Western European Financial Union Holding has become the official licensee of the Walt Disney Company CIS.

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.

As part of the Slush conference, held recently in Helsinki, App2Top managed to talk with the executive director of Grand Cru, Markus Pasula, who spoke in detail about his view on the development of mobile games.

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.

App Annie has published ratings on downloads and publisher revenue for October of this year.