Push notifications noticeably affect the lifetime of applications on mobile devices: users who allow notifications to be sent to themselves continue working with the application for much longer and do it more actively than those who refuse notifications.

The Australian “simulator” of a positive ninja has passed the 300 million downloads mark in the two years since the game appeared on the App Store. 

The box office leaders have not changed for a long time. Over the past week, only one top – ten cash register applications for iPhone – has a “new face” that has never been “lit up” before – the role-playing MMO Haypi Dragon from the authors of Haypi Kingdom.

Revenue from content on mobile devices is growing, but there is still little investment in advertising in this segment. ARPU and eCPM in mobile games also lag behind the indicators of desktop systems. 

According to GameTrack monitoring, Angry Birds is the most popular game series in the UK, leaving Mario, Call of Duty and FIFA far behind.

The most popular free game on iPhone and iPad is Cut the Rope: Experiments from the domestic ZeptoLab team. In terms of growth rates, Hide the Fart, an ugly-looking gas emission simulator, turned out to be ahead of everyone. Subway Surfers and MiB 3 also performed well.

The other day we wrote that Angry Birds and PES do not work on new budget smartphones from Nokia (namely Lumia 610). Just last night it turned out that the problems are not only with the gadgets of the Finnish manufacturer. It turns out that in addition to the mentioned applications on budget devices, about 25% of mobile Xbox Live games will not work on Windows Phone. 

Last April, the number of downloads of free apps in the American App Store continued to decline, as for the cost of attracting a loyal user, it, on the contrary, increased,” says Fiksu in its next monthly report. 

This summer, the Russian bank will start issuing its own cards with the heroes of the popular Finnish game Angry Birds. Thanks to this announcement, the number of Angry Birds downloads in Russia also became known. 

The association of developers Because we may, which advocates that developers set prices for their games that they consider necessary, announced massive discounts in the last week of spring in honor of The App Store, Google Play, Steam and some other digital stores.

According to a study conducted by Game Developer magazine, Unity is the most popular engine among mobile developers. More than half of the insiders interviewed by the magazine said that they use this package for development. 

It turned out that the younger models of Nokia smartphones with Windows Phone on board do not support a number of the most popular applications of the platform. Including Angry Birds and PES 2012.

Developers are losing interest in creating Android apps due to problems with fragmentation and a large number of app stores, Appcelerator reports. 

Microsoft and Nokia, with the help of a jury, determined 7 winners of the second wave of the mobile developers competition called “The best applications – free promotion!”.

Apple has started to feature two new categories of applications directly in the mobile version of the App Store. The growth of downloads should be expected by those whose programs or games are marked by Cupertinos with Editor’s Choice or Free App of the Week medals.

The American tops of the highest-grossing apps have changed little since the last report. As before, the ideological heirs of social projects and gambling continue to earn the most on mobile devices. Arcades and puzzles, that is, projects that recently seemed to be more suitable for smartphones and tablets, are almost not represented in the box office tops.

The organizers of Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 stated that almost 800 people attended the conference. They also believe that there would have been even more visitors if not for the early closing of registration.

Yesterday, Google introduced subscription support in its own app store. Glu Mobile immediately took advantage of this. She introduced a subscription to her virtual currency: now for $9.99 per month, players receive twice as many credits as if they paid the same amount at a time.

The share of Android in the American smartphone market has grown to 49% in the first quarter of 2012, according to experts of the advertising company Millennial Media. So Google’s operating system continues to be the “king of the mountain”; also in the US, 15 of the top 20 mobile devices run on Android