According to the latest All About Windows Phone report, today there are more than 100 thousand different applications in the Windows Phone Marketplace app store.

At the WWDC 2012 event, Apple employees shared impressive indicators of the iOS operating system. 

A CNET journalist posted a photo online that confirms the announcement of iOS 6 at the WWDC 2012 event.

Catapult King, a new game from Chillingo, topped the American top paid iPad apps on the third day after its release, displacing such old-timers as Angry Birds Space HD and Where’s My Water? 

One of Rovio’s employees, who is responsible for monetization in a Finnish company, said in his blog that Zeptolab could earn 15 times more on Cut the Rope: Experiments than it earns now. 

The other day, Ben Boardman, a representative of the mobile advertising network Jumptap, shared the secrets of successful application promotion on mobile platforms in the company’s blog.

The revenues of Russian operators from the sale of mobile content for the first quarter of 2012 increased significantly compared to the same period of 2011.

In the near future, the Google corporation platform may not only give way to the conditional palm of iOS, but also lose the mobile device market. 

On iPhone and iPad, Mega Run turned out to be the most popular application. Zombie Swipeout Free and Little Generals also performed well. But Heroes Call, despite the Apple feature, shows far from the best results.   

Along with the release of the new service, Distimo shared interesting data about the American mobile app market over the past April: Google Play overtook the number of free downloads of the App Store; 37% of the most successful applications on the Android market can be found in the iPhone version. 

The Australian “simulator” of a positive ninja has passed the 300 million downloads mark in the two years since the game appeared on the App Store. 

The most popular free game on iPhone and iPad is Cut the Rope: Experiments from the domestic ZeptoLab team. In terms of growth rates, Hide the Fart, an ugly-looking gas emission simulator, turned out to be ahead of everyone. Subway Surfers and MiB 3 also performed well.

Last April, the number of downloads of free apps in the American App Store continued to decline, as for the cost of attracting a loyal user, it, on the contrary, increased,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report. 

Distimo has shared data on exactly how many downloads are needed to get into the top 25 of the best paid and free apps for the American version of the Apple App Store. 

Apple enabled one studio to accept pre-orders for a game slated for distribution on the App Store and also supported it on Kickstarter. As a result, it spent three months in the top 10 grossing apps in one of the categories of the American App Store.

The social giant recently bought Wild Needle studio for an unknown amount, which developed games for a casual female audience. 

The creators of Angry Birds, the most downloaded mobile game and, there is such a suspicion, the most popular game of the last five years in general, announced that their new project will be a remake of the popular puzzle, and not the original title. 

Newzoo experts shared the results of a new study, during which they found out that micropayments by revenue captured almost the entire mobile games market. Analysts also calculated how many times the revenues of gaming applications from the App Store are more than those from Google Play.

In March, the number of downloads of free apps in the United States decreased for the first time in six months. And solidly – by 30%. Following this, the cost of attracting users also dropped a little. Perhaps it’s all about the war that Apple has declared on bots.