Yesterday, in connection with the deal between Baidu and Netdragon Websoft, we contacted Evgeny Kosolapov, Executive director of i-Free Asia, and asked him about the situation in the Chinese market. 

Everyone has been talking about China for a year now. There is nothing to be surprised about. This is a huge market in its potential, which is difficult to enter due to its severe fragmentation. But it is necessary to go out.

The number of international subscribers of the Chinese “conversational” WeChat application has reached 70 million. About the present and future of the platform – in our material. 

China is rapidly gaining ground in the mobile market. However, there are serious problems in this market. They are dragging the Celestial market down. 

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 number of Fruit Ninja downloads has surpassed the 500 million mark. Moreover, 200 million of them were in China. 

Without undue fuss, at the end of last week, Amazon opened its app store in China, where both free and paid applications are available to users.

The Russian company i-Free is strengthening its position in the Chinese market. It announced the conclusion of a strategic partnership with China Telecom, China’s third largest mobile operator.

At GDC 2013, PocketGamer portal published its annual top 50 mobile game developers. As it turned out the other day, almost a quarter of the teams from this list work on Cocos2D-x. 

The revenue of the mobile gaming industry in China by the end of 2013 will be about $ 1.3 billion, according to CocoaChina. However, this will not make it easier for Western companies to work on it. 

At the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference, i-Free company spoke about its experience in promoting mobile games in China, including how it fought piracy by promoting Pudding Monsters simultaneously in a dozen stores.

The authors of Fishing Joy from Chukong claim that you can earn a lot of money in the Chinese market. However, the developers are silent about how exactly they do it. 

According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Google controls too large a share of the local mobile market and does not want to share the source code.

The main box office hit of the Chinese iOS market last year – the role-playing game Dragon Force, also known at home as Dragon Bane, is being prepared for international release. 

This is the conclusion reached by Nielsen analysts, assessing the level of smartphone penetration in emerging markets, including Russia.

According to data from the China Game Indusrty Report 2012, mobile games last year became the fastest growing segment of the gaming market in China. 

Yesterday, Flurry analysts published a report on the spread of mobile devices in the world. Judging by the growing popularity of mobile devices in China, China will overtake the United States in terms of the number of active gadgets in the next quarter.

The Chinese tablet market grew by 63% in the third quarter. Apple dominates it. In second place are “tablets” from Lenovo.  

At a teleconference on Apple’s financial activities, Tim Cook said that in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, 15% of the company’s sales were in China.