The distribution of income generated by mobile applications is becoming, as journalists put it on Inside Mobile Apps with reference to Flurry, more democratic. According to the latest report of an American analytical company, if in 2010 applications from the top 25 accounted for 28% of all premium and IAP revenue, then in 2012, according to preliminary data, this figure will be only 15%. 

There are 400 thousand apps in the App Store whose rating and downloads are zero. The researchers of the analytical company Adeven insist on this.

App Annie analysts have found out that many iPhone games that never get into the box office top 25 on the App Store, but have been stable for a long time in slightly lower positions, are more profitable than the rapidly burning stars of the mobile sky. 

Nokia, adhering to the business restructuring plan, on Friday closed the last Finnish factory for the production of smartphones and mobile phones. 

More recently, it became known that for the first time since 1986, Microsoft received a quarterly loss. And this is largely due to the decline in revenue in the priority direction for itself – Windows & Windows Live. There is an opinion that the company plans to improve the situation on the OS front, relying on its future tablet. 

Analysts from ABI Research predict that in 2012 the number of downloads of mobile applications for smartphones worldwide will reach 36 billion, which is 6% higher than last year. However, according to their calculations, there will be a gradual decrease in the total number of downloads in the coming years.

The average number of downloads of one app per day in the App Store has fallen to its lowest level since 2010. At the same time, according to new Distimo data, the transition of many developers to the free-to-play model allowed to triple the total income generated by applications from the Top 100 cash programs of the Apple App Store.

According to analysts of consulting and research firm Gartner, consumer spending on mobile apps and content will increase to $61 billion by 2016.

The world’s largest social network Facebook, together with the Taiwanese company HTC, plans to release its own smartphone model next year. Facebook representatives are sure that if this is not done, the network risks becoming an ordinary application.

The research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has published the results of its study of iPad user preferences conducted in the period from December 2011 to April 2012.

Alex Patsay, Head of the mobile direction Mail.Ru Group, after his speech at the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference, talked about how often updates should be released, which channels of promotion of mobile games are most important, how much you need to spend to earn a million, etc.

Tapjoy, the developer and owner of the eponymous platform for monetization and advertising in mobile applications, announced the conclusion of a strategic partnership with the provider of analytical information for developers Kontagent.  According to the parties, the result of this cooperation should be new products and services for the mobile industry.

According to the results of a mini-study conducted by Ampulum companies, users find mobile games thanks to the recommendations of their friends and using search queries in the app store. At least that’s what they claim.

Analysts from Transparency Market Research have published a report that makes forecasts about the development of the mobile content market for the next five years. Researchers believe that by 2017 its volume will exceed $ 18 billion, with the largest revenue (11.4 billion) coming from the mobile games segment.

Niko Partners, a firm researching Asian IT markets, predicts that by the end of this year the number of Chinese mobile gamers will reach 192 million, thereby exceeding the expected figure for the audience of players on personal computers of the Celestial Empire – 180 million.

comScore has published its next quarterly review of the American market of mobile devices and platforms. According to him, 234 million people use mobile devices in the United States, Samsung is slowing its growth, and Android still accounts for more than half of the OS market. 

It’s no secret that the Windows Phone direction is currently a priority for Nokia. Nevertheless, the application market for its Symbian-based devices and the Series 40 continues to evolve. This is evidenced by statistics published recently on the pages of the official blog of Nokia developers.According to the data provided by the company, the total number of applications in the Nokia Store is 120 thousand, which is 20 thousand more than in the Windows Phone…

Last May, the number of downloads of free apps from the American App Store began to grow again. If we talk about the cost of attracting a loyal user, then, on the contrary, it began to fall. Moreover, it is very significant,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report.  

Digi-Capital Investment bank has published another review of the state of investments in the global gaming industry for the first half of 2012, and made very interesting conclusions regarding the mobile segment.