The main thing for the week (09.06.2014 – 15.06.2014)

Apple has published a list of the best games for MayThe Apple company continued the practice of publishing a selection of the best applications for the month.

Let’s see who got into it in Russia in May.

The number of daily downloads in the US App Store in April fell by 25%If in March, American users downloaded about 7.1 million applications, then a month later this figure fell to 5.34 million, according to the analytical company Fiksu in a report for last April.

How to promote apps (Facebook, Word of Mouth, namesquatting)A/B testing allows you to reduce the percentage of one-day users to about 25%, said AppInTop and App2Top.ru , produced by Digital Click Anton Losman.

King has released a sequel to Candy Crush SagaToday, a new part of the “candy” saga from King has been released in the Canadian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch Google Play.

The novelty is called Candy Crush Soda Saga.

Does Apple prohibit advertising third-party software in applications?There is hysteria in the Western media: in the App Store, those applications that pay for viewing video ads and social sharing are now banned.

Why it’s worth calming down and not making a big deal out of a molehill, I figured it out App2Top.ru .

Alibaba buys UCWeb for $630 millionThe Chinese Internet giant has announced the imminent acquisition of UCWeb, one of the aspects of its business is the distribution of mobile games.

App Annie has published the Top 52 mobile publishers of 2013The analytical company App Annie, which recently absorbed another analytical company Distimo, presented a list of companies that earned the most money on the App Store and Google Play last year.

How to work with users of free-to-play games?The general producer of the Game Garden company Ivan Gorelov said App2Top.ru about the subtleties of working with users at various stages of the development of a free-to-play project.