Just a few weeks after the announcement of Xbox SmartGlass, a cloud platform that supports iOS, Android and Windows Phone, Microsoft has published an SDK for developers.

Yesterday, as part of the Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft presented an updated version of its mobile platform. Windows Phone 8 is very different from the “seven” and may well become a real competitor to iOS and Android.

The Russian mobile app market is one of the fastest growing in terms of profit,” say App Annie analysts, who published a chic infographic today under the uncomplicated title “Smartphone Game”.

App Annie analysts have announced that their service now fully supports the Google Play app store.

The Chinese company Tencent has acquired part of the Epic Games studio, known in the mobile market thanks to the Infinity Blade dialog.

App2Top, starting this week, will talk weekly not only about box office hits and the growth rate of free games in mobile markets, but also about the best paid applications of the American App Store. 

The new executive director of Samsung once again stated that in order to maintain a leading position in the market, the company needs to take a close look at software.

The development of the secret Meltemi OS for low-cost smartphones was discontinued by Nokia due to budget cuts of the company. 

Information appeared on the Network, according to which GREE acquired 49.2% of the shares of the newly minted game developer GeePlus.

The analytical company Flurry has presented a new report. In it, the company shared very interesting data on the share of Windows Phone applications in the mobile software market as a whole, as well as on their growth rates in the Microsoft market. 

There is official information about the new version of the multiplatform Unity 4 engine. Among the main innovations are animation support, Linux, DirectX 11 and AAA rendering support. 

At a special event held today in Los Angeles, Microsoft, as expected, presented a tablet of its own production – Microsoft Surface. 

Our friends with iGuides.ru Recently, a very detailed and interesting report on the conference on the development and promotion of mobile games White Nights: Mobile Games, held in St. Petersburg on June 14-15, was published in two parts. Now you can get acquainted with it on our website. 

Google has allowed Android developers to communicate with users directly. So now, if you suddenly don’t like something in a competitor’s project, you will not only be able to declare it on the application page, but also get an answer.Representatives of the Internet giant claim that this service will be available for the first time only to those developers who have received the title of Top Developer (Google does not specify how to earn such…

The Chinese publisher spoke about his own achievements in the field of distribution of mobile projects.

The Japanese publisher of social games said it expects a significant increase in sales in the first quarter of 2012. 

It was the devices of these companies that accounted for 90% of revenue from the global smartphone market in the first quarter of this year. But Nokia’s performance continues to fall, and very, very rapidly. The number of shipments of its smartphones in the world decreased by 40% compared to the same period a year ago, equaling RIM’s shipments in terms of indicators. 

Last week, three star companies immediately pleased the industry with their fresh releases. So it is possible that very soon we are waiting for news about the next records of NimbleBit, Rovio and Imangi. 

PopCap has published a report according to which users in the US and the UK spend half of the time they spend on electronic entertainment in general on mobile games.