According to a study conducted by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the world leader in telecommunications market analysis, more than 50% of all smartphones in China run on Google’s operating system.

The German startup AppLift, which provides services to attract users, received investments of $13 million from the Dutch venture capital firm Prime Ventures.

The open source project One Platform Foundation (OPF) together with Yandex, whose developers are involved in its creation, announced the AppDF format, designed to seriously facilitate the publication of Android applications.

The game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic took third place in the box office top of iPad US in a few hours, overtaking Hay Day, Big Fish Casino, Injustice: Gods Among Us and many other titles. 

Glu Mobile will enable American users to win real money in their non-gambling games. Yesterday, the company announced the beginning of cooperation with the Californian startup Skillz, whose service allows you to do this.

AppData, a well-known provider of social and mobile application analytics, announced that now it will also regularly post data on the approximate profitability of applications and developers.

Amazon continues its global expansion. Yesterday, she launched the end-to-end authorization service in Android and iOS apps.

The Dots game was released about a month ago and, as we have already reported, almost instantly became popular. Its creators from Betaworks decided not to stop there and prepared a version optimized for iPad and including multiplayer.

The Israeli company TestFairy has launched a platform for testing applications for Android.

The release date of the second part of one of the main games in the tower defense genre – Kingdom Rush from Ironhide Game Studio became known.

On June 19, Helsinki will host the Free Your Play 13 event for the first time, which will bring together the leaders of the free games market – Supercell, King, GungHo and Wargaming.

In March of this year, a small company from New Zealand, Rocket Jump Games, released a Mini Golf Matchup game. On the first day of downloading the game amounted to 1 million. The authors of the project are sure that they owe their success to working with the publisher.

Yesterday we wrote that iTunes has learned to understand Yandex.Money. And we tried to understand whether the revenue of the Russian App Store will increase after that. Today we received an official comment from Yandex on this issue. 

Nextpeer has launched a closed beta testing of its solution that adds multiplayer mode to Android games.

After the recent announcement of the not too successful results of the 2012 financial year, Square Enix thought about how to fix the situation. According to the latest information, one of the “lifebuoys” for the company may well be the development of the mobile direction. 

Russian iOS users have the opportunity to pay for purchases in iTunes using Yandex.Moneys’. Read about whether this will lead to an increase in App Store revenue in Russia in our material.

The good old “Word of Mouth” (Word of Mouth – WOM) is the most important source of information about new applications. This conclusion was made by the analysts of the company Applicier as a result of a survey of 1800 mobile gamers. 

The authors of the last part of Devil May Cry and Enslaved from the British studio Ninja Theory are entering the mobile market. Last Friday, they announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Chillingo to publish their first mobile game for iOS and Android.

Google Play’s revenue from IAP has grown by 700%; Unity has become free for mobile developers; Amazon tablets will be sold in 170 countries – read about this and more in our traditional digest for a week.