On the calendar on December 25, there is less than a week left until the New Year, it’s time to sum up the results of 2012. We decided to start with the top of the best mobile devices of the outgoing year.

The other day, seven forecasts for the development of the mobile gaming market in the coming year appeared on the pages of the electronic version of Forbes. Their author is the founder and vice president of the marketing company W3i Robert Weber (Robert Weber). We decided to briefly bring them to us. 

YouTube has announced the release of the long-promised Player API for Android developers, allowing them to integrate videos into their applications.

According to the 9to5Mac resource with reference to the Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple is ready to introduce a new generation iPad 5 months after the launch of the iPad 4.

 

The industrial resource Venturebeat on the eve of Catholic Christmas has published its version of the list of the best mobile games of the year. 

GREE has become one of the sponsors of the application for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

At the end of November, at the Mobile VAS & Apps Conference in St. Petersburg, App Annie presented a huge report on the Russian mobile platform market. Today we present it to your attention. 

Mobile startup MobileDevHQ, which optimizes applications in mobile stores, received funding from Founder’s Co-op and Social Leverage in the amount of $650 thousand.

Not so long ago, we wrote about the possible appearance of new Nexus tablets on the market at a record low price of $99. The rumors are beginning to be confirmed. 

Right before the closure of the App Store for the weekend, the attackers placed fake applications “based on” Halo 4 in the digital market.

Apple is still the main smartphone manufacturer in the United States, but in Europe, the “apple” company is among the catching up, Kantar analysts write in their latest report.

On the eve of the New Year, analytical companies continue to delight with their predictions about how much the mobile market will earn in future years. This time the forecast was shared by the Swedish Berg Insight.

The most important news and articles of the last week: daily revenues from the App Store are growing fastest in Russia; Flurry talked about the most successful game genres in terms of profitability; Playheaven shared the secrets of a threefold increase in eCPM and much more.

The other day, the publisher Square Enix released the next chapter of its cult series Final Fantasy IV for iOS. However, more attention of online media was attracted not so much by the fact of the release itself as by the trailer accompanying the launch of the project.

Funny Bunny Tales (Adventures of a Funny Rabbit) positions itself as a children’s game, but it will also be interesting for adults who have enough free time.

Mochi Media flash gaming service in cooperation with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com conducted a survey of Flash game developers. As a result, it turned out that many of them have already switched to mobile “rails”, but have not figured out marketing and monetization.

Kabam’s first mobile game Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North became the highest-grossing app in the Apple iTunes Appstore by the end of 2012 and allowed the studio to increase its revenues by 60% compared to the previous year.

Marketing company Distimo has published an overview of the global mobile OS market for 2012. According to him, Russia is ahead of all countries in terms of revenue growth from the iPad.