GetJar announced that the number of users of its GetJar Gold currency service has reached 10 million in just 5 months. In many ways, this happened thanks to the collaboration with Halfbrick and Zynga.  GetJar itself claims that the growth in the number of users indicates “getting into resonance” with the desires of both developers and players.

In his speech at Casual Connect 2012, Bertrand Schmidt, executive director of App Annie, spoke about the impact of device releases on downloads and revenue from apps in the App Store, and also shared interesting “comparative” statistics on the two leading app stores.  

Nokia, adhering to the business restructuring plan, on Friday closed the last Finnish factory for the production of smartphones and mobile phones. 

More recently, it became known that for the first time since 1986, Microsoft received a quarterly loss. And this is largely due to the decline in revenue in the priority direction for itself – Windows & Windows Live. There is an opinion that the company plans to improve the situation on the OS front, relying on its future tablet. 

Analysts from ABI Research predict that in 2012 the number of downloads of mobile applications for smartphones worldwide will reach 36 billion, which is 6% higher than last year. However, according to their calculations, there will be a gradual decrease in the total number of downloads in the coming years.

As part of the White Nights: Mobile Games Conference Sandra Ilyina, Business Development Manager of Opera Software, answered a number of our questions about the promotion of mobile applications. 

The average number of downloads of one app per day in the App Store has fallen to its lowest level since 2010. At the same time, according to new Distimo data, the transition of many developers to the free-to-play model allowed to triple the total income generated by applications from the Top 100 cash programs of the Apple App Store.

A major developer of casual and social games King.com The fourth-ranked developer on Facebook has entered the mobile market with the iOS version of the popular Bubble Witch Saga game.For those who don’t know: Bubble Witch Saga is a colorful “bubble shooter”, perfect for everyone who loves Halloween with witches, big cauldrons, skulls and bats.

The iPad is spent more often and more than on any other mobile devices, be it smartphones or tablets, – the specialists of the payment company Adyen found out as a result of an eight-month study.

The share of the iPad in the Russian tablet market has significantly decreased: from 51% last year to 32% this year,” the official report of the Svyaznoy retail chain says. 

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

The French performed well in the second quarter of this year, collecting 119% more money on smartphones and tablets than in the second quarter of last year. 

According to analysts of consulting and research firm Gartner, consumer spending on mobile apps and content will increase to $61 billion by 2016.

The world’s largest social network Facebook, together with the Taiwanese company HTC, plans to release its own smartphone model next year. Facebook representatives are sure that if this is not done, the network risks becoming an ordinary application.

Electronic Arts (EA) has announced the merger of its two leading Australian studios engaged in projects for mobile platforms, Iron Monkey and Firemint. Now the companies will work under the general brand of FireMonkeys. 

Yesterday, as part of the Casual Connect 2012 conference, App Annie’s detailed report on the state of the global mobile market was conducted by the company’s executive director Bertrand Schmidt. Without delay, App Annie employees posted a presentation “based on motives”, thanks to which you can find out the names of the leading countries in terms of revenue, downloads and ARPU, as well as the names of top American and non-American publishers.  

The director of the Amazon Appstore for Android, Aaron Rubenson, shared some interesting statistics regarding monetization in this market. For example, it turned out that in-app purchases priced at $4.99 are more popular than those priced at $2.99.

In the second quarter, Zynga’s business on Facebook, compared with the results of the first fiscal quarter of 2012, declined. In this regard, the company’s executive director Mark Pincus hastened to state that Zynga is considering the mobile and advertising markets as opportunities for further development. Moreover, it is quite possible that the developer will engage in games aimed at a male audience.