Amazon has allowed the gift of virtual currency.

San Francisco-based GameSalad has signed a contract with Amazon. As part of the cooperation, the company will offer the tools necessary for publishing indie games on Kindle Fire tablets. This is reported by the Venturebeat portal.

Amazon has announced the launch of the third version of its own Android firmware for Kindle Fire tablets. 

The Betaworks project managed to overcome the bar of 5 million downloads and almost 1 billion gaming sessions on iOS in the first three months since the release (after which there was a decline). A good start. The question is whether the game will be able to repeat its result on the Google and Amazon platforms.

Amazon is analyzing the results of the introduction of the Amazon Coins virtual currency and talking about an increase in developers’ income. Obviously, the company was satisfied with the results.

Amazon is developing a new smartphone, the highlight of which will be the presence of a 3D screen. On top of everything else, Amazon promises to save us from having to use glasses for viewing. 

The results of a study conducted by Animoca, a company specializing in the development and publication of mobile games for Android, show that four of the five most used tablets have 7-inch screens. 

Amazon is going to launch a virtual currency on the Kindle Fire line of devices this May, for which it will be possible to purchase applications and content inside them in the Amazon Appstore.

At the end of last week, Amazon announced that the number of downloads from its store has increased by 500% over the past year. The store would never have achieved these impressive growth rates without the release of its own budget devices.

Earlier than the announced deadline (November 20), Amazon began shipping the Kindle Fire HD tablet with an 8.9-inch screen.

According to Reuters, the Amazon online store is in talks with Texas Instruments about buying its division specializing in the production of processors for mobile devices.

Apple is losing not only the American, but also the Russian tablet market. This can be judged by the results of a study by the analytical company GfK, which was presented by the newspaper Vedomosti. 

The week of announcements continues. This time, Apple’s real competitor in the American tablet market, Amazon, told about his new devices. As expected, he demonstrated as many as two next-generation Kindle Fire devices: one large and one slightly smaller. 

Amazon’s Android app store has become available for mobile users in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

The American company Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has scheduled a press conference for September 6. According to rumors, the company’s new devices will be presented at the event.

Despite the sale of more than 17 million iPads in the last quarter, Apple’s share of the tablet market has declined markedly over the year, according to a new study by the American consulting company Frank N. Magid Associates.

Amazon has problems: the company’s net profit in the second quarter of 2012 fell by 96% compared to the same period last year. 

Amazon has announced GameCircle for Kindle Fire, a comprehensive service similar to Game Center for iOS.

News in audio format! Let’s talk about why the popularity of mobile games is growing in China, what Beeline has agreed with Google Play and which smartphone Amazon intends to release.