In Russia, more Windows Phone devices were sold in the second half of 2012 than on iOS, IDC announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Finnish company decided in an unexpected way to celebrate overcoming the mark of 1 billion views on its own YouTube channel.

China is one step away from becoming the largest market for active iOS and Android devices in the world. The number of such gadgets in Russia is much smaller, which does not prevent our homeland from being in the top ten largest mobile device markets. 

Newzoo summed up the results of 2012. According to them, in total, smartphone and tablet users spent $9 billion in 2012. This is 32% more than a year earlier.

According to research2guidance, the market for paid applications on the five leading mobile platforms increased by 27% compared to 2011, and amounted to $8 billion.

Games are one of the most profitable segments of the mobile app industry. It’s not a secret for anyone for a long time. This is stated in numbers by many, including companies such as Distimo and App Annie. The other day, Taptica also shared its opinion on this issue.

The preliminary results of last Christmas were shared yesterday by the marketing company Flurry. According to her, the total number of activations of devices on iOS and Android on December 25 amounted to a record 17.4 million. 

Apple is still the main smartphone manufacturer in the United States, but in Europe, the “apple” company is among the catching up, Kantar analysts write in their latest report.

Mochi Media flash gaming service in cooperation with Adobe and FlashGameLicense.com conducted a survey of Flash game developers. As a result, it turned out that many of them have already switched to mobile “rails”, but have not figured out marketing and monetization.

Marketing company Distimo has published an overview of the global mobile OS market for 2012. According to him, Russia is ahead of all countries in terms of revenue growth from the iPad. 

The American company in its corporate blog told about the four main trends of the outgoing 2012 in the mobile advertising market.

Mobile publishers in the markets of the five leading European countries will earn 1.68 billion euros in 2012, according to the analytical company research2guidance in its December report.

The specialists of Flurry have built a “loyalty table” in which the nine most popular game genres and the frequency of access to them are marked.

This week, RIA Novosti held a round table with a number of experts of the domestic mobile market. We decided to compare the assumptions of specialists with the data of analytical companies.

In the first month of sales of the iPad 4 and iPad mini, only 4% of the sessions of “apple” tablets went away. The duration of the sessions on the new products also turned out to be less than that of the older brothers.

This is the conclusion that W3i analysts came to after studying the data of hundreds of partner companies. They also found out that the United Arab Emirates is among the most profitable mobile markets.

The creators of Clash of the Clans earn more on two projects per month than the French – on 259 games; strategies and gambling bring the most money on iOS; on Android, users prefer to spend money on games from casual and arcade categories.

A third of American teenagers use mobile devices to do their homework. The relevance of training applications is growing. At the same time, no one is in a hurry to make money in this market. What is the reason, App2Top figured it out.

Slightly less than half of smartphone users in the UK never pay for apps, the portal MyVoucherCodes, which deals with discounts, found out.