App Annie company together with IDC presented the next quarterly report on the situation on the market of mobile and portable games.

15 Japanese companies They are creating a single platform for cross-promotion, The Nikkei business newspaper reports.

30% of the top iPad apps are missing from Google Play, Canalys found.

The main hit of the British company Candy Crush Saga in July earned more than $438 thousand every day.

The revenues of the American mobile games market for July amounted to $ 278 million, according to analysts at SuperData.

Yesterday, G5 Entertainment published a financial report for the first half of 2013. In the first six months of this year, she earned about $7.3 million. 

Facebook’s mobile MAU in Japan has reached the 18 million mark. A good reason is not to forget about the important role of the service in the mobile application market.

The total spending of users on mobile applications in the near future will amount to $ 75 billion, of which 75% will be spent on IAP, Juniper Research analysts reported in their latest report.

Mobile Content Forum estimated the Japanese mobile content market at $8.8 billion last year, of which $5.1 billion was for games for mobile devices. 

Yesterday, at a Walt Disney press conference held in San Francisco, the company’s mobile division announced the imminent release of three games and four large-scale updates to existing products.

Apple’s decision to increase the limit on cellular downloads from 20 to 50 megabytes has led to significant changes in the size of gaming applications in the App Store.

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.

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.  

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Distimo, who studied the growth rates of profitability of mobile markets, including in developing countries, which now include not only Brazil, Mexico and Turkey, but also Russia. 

There are two newcomers in the American box office top of iPhone games at once: Temple Run: Brave and Zynga Slots. In the top of gaming applications for iPad, there were also some updates: a fresh game from Wizards of the Coast – Magic 2013 showed itself well. But as for Google Play, everything is the same here.

This conclusion was reached by analysts from Frank N. Magid, who conducted a study of trends in the mobile market – Magid Media Futures: Mobile 2012, commissioned by PlayFirst. Special attention was paid to tablets and the behavior of their users.

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