While Apple shares are rapidly going down, HTC is reporting an increase in its earnings over the past month. For the first time since March of this year, the company’s sales went up.

Archos has announced the start of sales in Europe of a new 7-inch tablet based on Android 4.1 with the eloquent name GamePad.

J’son & Partners Consulting has published a detailed overview of the mobile device market in Russia:  smartphone sales figures, mobile OS market segmentation and the harsh truth about tablets in our country.

Two updates have appeared on our website at once.

Only 15% of Russian websites have mobile versions, according to the analytical company NetCat and the CMS Magazine portal.

Stockholm studio Scattered Entertainment, headed by former Battlefield executive producer Ben Cousins, has announced a post-apocalyptic mobile shooter The Drowning for iOS.

The British resource presented an infographic in which he talked about the fundamental difference between tablets and smartphones. It turned out that it comes down not only to the size of the devices.

At the conference held at the end of November Droidcon NL 2012 Distimo company told about the income of mobile markets in the USA, compared Google Play and Amazon Appstore and reported on which applications Android developers earn money on.

By 2016, Apple will still own half of the tablet market, IDC analysts predict.

Beeline Interactive, a division of Japanese Capcom, is developing a mobile f2p game in the Ghostbusters comedy universe. 

Rockstar Games has posted one of its best console games on the App Store – a gangster action game about the 80s Vice City.

American users spend a third of their time on mobile apps more than last year. They devote almost half of their attention to games, analysts from Flurry calculated.

The successful sales of the Nexus 7 have become a catalyst for the rapid growth of Asus in the tablet market. Already next year, the company for the supply of “tablets” plans to overtake all Android competitors.

From today, the fourth-generation iPad can be purchased in Russia officially.

A week later, on December 14, Mobile Developer&Business Day Russia will be held in Moscow – an event for developers and customers of mobile applications. 

Mail.ru Games has announced the launch of its mobile games in Asian markets. GREE will act as one of the Japanese partners of the Russian giant.

Exactly half of all profits from the American versions of the App Store and Google Play are distributed among 25 developers, according to App Annie and Canalys.

The company, founded by the creator of the iconic Guitar Hero series, received $6 million in investments to develop a gamepad for mobile devices. Read about the next trend among small OEM companies, the pros and cons of gamepads and the console-mobile future in our material.