Europe is responsible for a quarter of the global mobile app economy, both in terms of consumption and production, says VisionMobile in its latest report. 

How exactly the user ratings of applications in the App Store are interconnected with the tops, the other day the company Appurify told on the pages of its blog. 

The best games of August, the secrets of monetization from Gamesbrief, data on the number of smartphones sold on Windows Phone – read about this and much more in our digest for the week!

The total revenue of Android apps for 2013 will double, according to analysts at ABI Research in their latest forecast.

PlayFirst, a developer and publisher of casual games from San Francisco, has absorbed a small startup Big Head Mode (formerly GameFace). The goal is to increase the effectiveness of targeting and cross-advertising campaigns.

The revenue of the Chinese mobile games market by the end of this year will amount to $ 1.2 billion, representatives of Niko Partners assure in their latest research. 

Since the launch of the Android mobile platform on September 23, 2008, it has been activated 1 billion times, the search giant reported yesterday, and we decided to calculate how many iOS and Windows Phone devices have also been sold in the world.

According to the latest Kantar report, Windows Phone managed to gain a serious user base in Europe over the year. Also, Windows Phone devices pushed the sales leaders in Mexico. 

Microsoft will pay about $5 billion for the division that creates devices, and another $2.18 billion for Nokia‘s patent portfolio. The software and NSN departments of the Finnish company will remain independent.

The change in Apple’s rating mechanism has raised the cost of an American user to a record high over the past two years.

ESA found that three-quarters of moms in the U.S. spend their time playing video games. Moreover, 65% of mom gamers prefer to use mobile devices for games. 

Unity will soon become a publisher of games, and will also launch its own cross-advertising grid. 

Kevin Cho’s company found high patrons: the names of venture funds that bought part of its shares last July became known. Google Ventures is one of them. 

Most applications are dead souls. They are remembered only when they count the number of programs available in the stores. 

The new rules for publishing applications prohibit advertising in notifications, and also prohibit encouraging users with virtual currency for rating. 

Qihoo 360, which owns one of China’s largest Android app stores, earned almost $152 million in the second quarter.

The peak of mobile and media sales in the Russian Federation falls on the periods from eight to nine in the evening and from one to two in the morning.

Microsoft’s mobile platform was the second most common in Latin America, according to IDC.

“Whales” are young men who spend a lot of time playing console games. Unexpectedly, yes.