The Head Hunter company timed the publication of interesting statistical data concerning the prospects and attractiveness of the programmer’s profession in the modern labor market to coincide with the Programmer’s Day, which is celebrated every 256th day of the year (including today, September 12).

Today Apple will present the iPhone 5. The novelty is eagerly awaited in Russia, but our users will most likely have to postpone the purchase until December.

Good afternoon! Is anyone going to social rocks in Kiev? there is a good discount if you register with a group of 4 people or more. Maybe someone wants to cooperate?

A little news about Android after the previous one: as it became known today, the number of activated devices based on the OS created by Google has reached a significant mark of an embarrassing 500 million. 

In 2013, the 1 billion gadget on the Android platform will be shipped, according to the global information company IHS.

>EA Mobile became the first major mobile game publisher to support the Android-based PlayMG portable gaming device.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the largest Chinese operator Alibaba Group plans to push the Android platform with its own OS – Aliyun, developed on the basis of Linux.

By the end of this year, about 45.6 billion applications will be downloaded worldwide, Gartner estimates. Moreover, the absolute majority of them will be distributed either under the free-to-play scheme or freemium.

Amazon has allowed the purchase of physical goods from its app store.

Startup Agawi announced the conclusion of an agreement with Microsoft Corporation. According to it, the game streaming service from Agawi will be available on all Windows 8 devices (including tablets). 

According to the results of the second quarter, Apple devices account for 31% of all mobile advertising views in the United States, Millennial Media reports in its latest report. 

The American audience of smartphone users is getting younger. Nielsen analysts came to such conclusions, finding that over the year the number of teenagers with smartphones in the United States increased by an impressive 22%.

Apple still allowed Big Fish Games to release Big Fish Casino in the UK – the first mobile gambling game for real money.

Good afternoon, dear readers of the blog on the app2top website!

Last week, Amazon introduced a whole line of Kindle Fire HD devices. The stated “pleasant” prices for the company’s devices are compensated by built-in advertising.  

Today, most mobile developers face a seemingly unsolvable question: how to attract attention to their project in a crowd of diverse projects of the wildest colors. Last year, one of the most popular ways to stand out and, thereby, get yourself in the unequal struggle of users, was to shoot a trailer. 

Nukotoys has announced a new Touchcode technology used in the card games Animal Planet Wildlands and Monsterology.

Liverpool-based publisher Thumbstar signed a contract with South American provider NII Holding two weeks ago to release a number of its projects in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. In connection with this transaction, Pocket Gamer took an interview with Thumbstar Executive Director Gareth Edmondson (Gareth Edmondson).  

Recently, Apple has been significantly expanding its presence in Russia: Apple Rus registration, in the future, the opening of its own Apple Store stores in Russia, and now access to iTunes.