According to the research company Gartner, the volume of the mobile commerce market will grow by 44% worldwide and reach $235 billion this year.

Last month, there was talk of restructuring Microsoft. It was reported about the possible unification of the Window s 8 Surface and Windows Phone teams into one division. So far, these rumors have not received any confirmation, but new assumptions have already appeared.It is said that the CEO of the company, Steve Ballmer, is considering a larger-scale reorganization of work in connection with the departure of the former “face” of Xbox 

The Finnish company has decided on serious innovations in the latest update of the original Angry Birds. About updates, and whether they can seriously change anything in the fate of the project – read below.

The British trade association TIGA has announced its partnership with Chartboost. Recall that this platform allows developers to share their traffic, stimulates cross-promotion and distribution of games.Unknown ObjectPartners have created a group on the Chartboost platform dedicated to TIGA.

According to Kantar Worldpanel, Samsung is the manufacturer of almost half of the smartphones purchased in Europe this spring.

What do high fashion and the world of mobile apps have in common? Stupid question? Not at all. They have a lot in common. Read below about the new Google Play summer collection and the reasons why it’s worth a look. 

This Monday, the information portal Chaebul.com He published a list of the 400 richest people in South Korea. One of them was the head of the Nexon gaming company – Kim Jag-ju (Kim Jung-ju).

Due to July 4 and a large number of sales this week there were almost no bright releases. It is risky to be released at a time when the bigwigs of the market are dropping prices for their projects. 

It’s been a long time since we wrote about the Japanese box office hit from GungHo. The project has no new figures from the Land of the Rising Sun, but it became known that it began to slowly conquer the South Korean market. 

The other day Telefónica, Mozilla and ZTE announced that they are releasing the first commercial phone based on Firefox OS. And at a sensationally low price of €69. We decided to reflect on why this is not an event.

According to new reports from Juniper Research and the Cinema Blend news site, the mobile app market will grow to 160 billion downloads in 2017. The forecast for 2013 – 80 billion – already indicates a noticeable annual increase.

According to our colleagues from Techcrunch, Facebook is testing a new mobile game distribution system that will bring direct profit to the social network.

Rovio is now not only a developer, but also a publisher. It’s too early to say how successful it is. The company’s first publishing project was released two weeks ago. The second one will appear next Thursday.

Clash of Clans, the main box office hit of this year in the US and European markets, managed to enter the top ten on the Japanese App Store. Puzzle & Dragons helped. 

The number of international subscribers of the Chinese “conversational” WeChat application has reached 70 million. About the present and future of the platform – in our material. 

With the furious success of Angry Birds, Clash of Clans and Puzzle & Dragons, investors are growing faith in the gaming segment of the mobile market. They are in a hurry to open funds. And they are looking for developers. 

A Japanese publisher has announced that the revenue of Knights & Dragons, a third-party studio project, has crossed the $1 million mark per month. About the developers’ dislike of publishers and about the success of the Canadian game – in our material.    

The critically acclaimed Limbo platformer from the Danish independent Playdead team has appeared on the App Store today.

The South Korean social application KakaoTalk celebrated a significant event – the registration of a hundred millionth user.