Not so long ago, the Facebook advertising service launched under the name Mobile App Install Ads received three important updates yesterday. 

According to the results of 2012, analysts from IHS iSuppli identified the top five global vendors of “smart phones”.

Developers of mobile games, which demonstrate advertising for projects of the same genre, receive 166% more from their colleagues from promotion, PlayHaven found out.

SGN has announced Master Key, an application development toolkit that allows you to create games for Facebook based on Adobe Flash technology, and then port them to iOS, Android and other platforms.

On December 3, the mobile development studio 65 Gb Software released a new game application for children “Dress Minako — find fashionable images!”

The program of the only international conference in Russia dedicated to mobile games, Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, has been announced.

The AdsCloud advertising cloud has reached 10 million since its launch, on November 14, 2012.

The results of a study conducted by Kendo UI, a company specializing in JavaScript and HTML5 development services, indicate that developers’ interest in HTML5 is only growing.

The South Korean publisher announced the overcoming of the next milestone in downloads: the company’s games have already 200 million installations.

Mobile publishers in the markets of the five leading European countries will earn 1.68 billion euros in 2012, according to the analytical company research2guidance in its December report.

Unity-based games dominate the list of the best apps in the App Store over the past year. In total, there are 17 such projects among the laureates.

On December 10, 2012, the developer of mobile GPS audio guides Toozla added a multilingual feature to its applications.

The Finnish startup Applicier last week received investments in the amount of $ 4 million. These funds will be used to further develop the Everyplay service, which allows gamers to record video of the gameplay and share these videos with friends.

The advertising company Fiksu recently published an infographic dedicated to mobile marketing during the Christmas period in the United States. We present its translated version.

The total number of paid downloads of the mobile version of Minecraft on iOS and Android has reached 5 million. Together with the desktop and console versions, the project has gained 18 million installations.

On December 14, the third wave of iPhone 5 sales started, affecting three dozen countries, including Russia and China. In the first three days, official sales reached 2 million devices in the Chinese market alone.

The biggest and most significant events of the mobile market over the past week: Angry Birds celebrated its third anniversary, Facebook dealt another blow to virality and much more.

The specialists of Flurry have built a “loyalty table” in which the nine most popular game genres and the frequency of access to them are marked.