Last Friday, Facebook announced the purchase of the Parse cloud service. The transaction amount was $85 million. Why is Facebook and what threatens the mobile industry – read in our material. 

On May 14, a Flash GAMM conference dedicated to flash, social and mobile games will be held in Moscow. It will bring together about 800 participants.

The success of Puzzle & Dragons and Rage of Bahamut is something of a carrot for mobile developers. Many of them today think that it is worth creating a card game and the money will come into their hands.

On June 4-5, a conference for mobile developers Mdday#MoCO will be held in Moscow. It will be held as part of the ixth business forum “The World of Mobile Content” (MoCO). 

According to the financial report of Samsung Electronics, for the last quarter ended March 31, 2013, the company earned about $47.6 billion, which is 17% higher than the same period last year.

EA continues to close its studios. According to rumors, the Vancouver division of PopCap is next in line. 

Read about the main success criteria according to Pocket Gems, the Amazon market through the eyes of App Annie and Distimo, as well as achievements in games, live events and much more in our weekly digest. 

We present you a program for viewing current currency quotes and depersonalized metal accounts such as gold, silver, platinum and paladium on your mobile device without limiting your time by the need to use a personal computer or laptop.

Hard times have come… The fragile peace between slippers and cockroaches has been destroyed. Hordes of cockroaches are trying to take over the world and enslave sneakers.

Becky Ann Hughes, vice president of product management at Playfirst, is confident that only those projects that have bright characters will survive on the mobile market.

The Russian mobile advertising market lags far behind the world in terms of turnover. App2Top believes that the consolidation of mobile advertisers in popularizing the direction can help the cause. 

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.

About the potential of the Appstore, the number of developers and the reasons why they make games for Amazon, t tells and shows in his new infographic “Red Anya”. 

According to the results of the first quarter of 2013, 3 million Windows-based tablets were shipped. This is 7.5% of the global market of “tablets”. 

At WWDC 2013 (World Developers Conference), Apple, which is the organizer of the event, is going to present the seventh version of its mobile platform. 

Yesterday, April 24, it became known that Unity no longer plans to support Flash. App2Top reflects on the consequences of this step.   

The start of sales of preview devices running on the Firefox OS platform turned out to be impressive. GeeksPhone sold out the first batch of smartphones in a few hours.

The most scandalous game of last year has a sequel. However, it is still available only to American users. Read our material about the innovations of the new OMGPOP project. 

Distimo company talked about the top Amazon Appstore apps last March and the differences between this mobile store and Google Play.