With each new version of Android, the platform’s monetization indicators are growing, according to Tapjoy. According to the company’s latest research, the ARPU of the latest version of the OS from Google has reached $1.63.

The lecture-workshop was conducted by Dmitry Zaretsky, the head of the company mobbtech.com in September 2012 in St. Petersburg. The article contains quite a lot of his quotes.

Great news for those who promote apps on Apple’s mobile platform: Google has implemented monitoring of iOS downloads through AdWords.

Yesterday came the news about the acquisition by the Japanese social giant GREE of the Pokelabo game studio. 

According to the DigiTimes resource, the Taiwanese company Compal Electronics, a strategic partner of Acer and Lenovo, is drastically reducing the staff involved in the development and testing of tablets.

Facebook has published a financial report for the third quarter of this year, according to which 14% of the company’s revenue comes from mobile advertising.

The social company is giving up 5% of its staff, closing several internal studios and ceasing support for 13 projects, the founder of Zynga said.

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert on strategic technologies at Microsoft, gave an exclusive interview to the App2Top portal. As part of a rather lengthy conversation, we discussed the reason for creating separate operating systems for smartphones and tablets, the issue of porting applications to them, as well as the features of monetization of games on Windows 8 and WP8.

Speaking at a presentation in San Jose yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook shared some interesting figures and facts about his company’s products and services.

The editors of App2Top managed to talk with David Worle, vice president of Wild Tangent. On the eve of the Casual Connect conference in Kiev, we discussed the need for diversification on the Android platform, the reasons for developers’ refusal to enter the Chinese market, as well as the differences between Russian and American businessmen.

As part of a special project timed to coincide with today’s Casual Connect conference, the editors of the App2Top portal interviewed David Nixon, co-founder and CEO of Gemini Hive consulting company. David told us in detail whether independent developers have a chance to succeed on their own in the mobile games market, whether applications should be distributed according to the free-2-play model in order to make money, and what is needed to create a hit.

A couple of minutes ago, at an event in California, Apple introduced the fourth generation of iPad and iPad mini tablets.

On the eve of the Casual Connect conference, as part of a special project prepared by the editors of the App2Top portal, Alexander Egoshin, head of mobile production at Alawar Entertainment, answered our questions. He spoke about the mistakes of developers when positioning the project, as well as about the main criteria for selecting games for production.

As part of the App2Top special project dedicated to the Casual Connect conference, Igor Bukhman, co-founder and president of Playrix products, told us about the reorientation of casual games to mobile platforms and the dominance of the free-2-play model in them.

According to the results of the third quarter, the conversion of contextual advertising on iOS devices is almost twice as high as Android’s, Adobe reports.

Yulia Lebedeva from Nevosoft, as part of a special project for the Casual Connect conference, told us about the audience of mobile games, shared her thoughts about the possibility of cloning popular projects, and also noted that you should not be skeptical about the market of Russian–language mobile games – it is quite possible to earn money on it.

According to the Buffalo Studios staff, 80% of the revenue of the mobile version of Bingo Blitz is provided by users who have linked the game to their accounts on the Facebook social network. 

On the eve of Casual Connect Kiev, we talked with John Holland, COO of Big Fish, one of the largest “fish” in the casual and now mobile games industry.

Yesterday, Wooga announced that the Diamond Dash game has achieved 30 million downloads since its release on iOS in December last year.