According to IDC, global shipments of tablet devices increased to 47.6 million in the third quarter of 2013. This indicates a 7% increase compared to the figures of the previous quarter and 36% compared to the figures for the same quarter last year.  And again, the bulk of deliveries are accounted for by Android tablets.

One of the leaders of the Runet Mail.ru The Group and the world-renowned research company Nielsen Holdings N.V. conducted a joint analysis of the mobile industry in Russia and the world.

App Annie employees have published the results of the latest App Annie Market Index report for the third quarter of 2013. The document compares in detail the revenues and the number of downloaded mobile programs in various countries, stores and categories.

During the discussion, moderated by Martin Rae, President of the Academy Of Interactive Arts, four major venture capitalists spoke about their vision of the future of the gaming industry. This is told by GamesIndustry.

Europe’s key event in the mobile gaming industry is gaining momentum. As part of the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference (February 7-8, 2014, St. Petersburg), a competition for mobile game developers WN Mobile Games Competition will be held. The main prize is $30,000.

Applift and Newzoo spoke about the current state of the mobile games market and what awaits it in the next three years.

At the GamesBeat 2013 conference currently taking place in California, Kristian Segarstrale, a member of the board of Supercell and one of the founders of Playfish, said that at the moment there is no need for publishers in the mobile market.

Pocket Gamer released funny material in which our colleague John Jordan, commenting on EA’s far from brilliant quarterly results, claims that the gaming giant should have bought a couple of years ago, not PopCap at all.

The cross-content promotion model is becoming increasingly popular on the mobile market (this is when the characters of one project appear in another). Next up is the collaboration between GungHo and Warner Bros.

Last week we started a series of materials about companies selling traffic. A sequel is coming out today. This time we talked to Trademob. 

A few days ago, a presentation of the analytical tool devtodev was held in Moscow. Just below is the text version of the report, which was read at the event by Maria Paskevich, an analyst of the service.

Sony has announced the PlayStation App, a somewhat belated response to Microsoft’s Xbox Glass. It is assumed that the application will make a “second screen” for console titles from the user’s mobile device, the GamesIndustry bulletin reports.

King is preparing for an IPO. The company announced that Ciara Smyth has become the head of the personnel department (CPO) of the company. This is reported by Pocket Gamer.

Chris Carvalho, COO of Kabam, told about this at the GMIC event held in San Francisco the other day. 

The other day, the executive director of Fishlabs, Michael Schade, gave an interview to Pocket Gamer, in which he explained what led the company to bankruptcy, why the studio went to him.