The mobile market is under the close attention of many analytical firms. Thus, experts from IDC in the latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker note that this year the volume of tablet shipments will increase from 144.5 million (2012) to 229.3 million, that is, by 58.7%.

Millennial Media has presented a report on the American mobile device market for the first quarter of 2013. There are some interesting figures. For example, did you know that 25% of iPad users have an Android smartphone?

The Grapple marketing agency presented the “world’s first” engine created to increase the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to promote a particular brand, and infographics on the situation on the mobile application market.

The Israeli company TestFairy has launched a platform for testing applications for Android.

The release date of the second part of one of the main games in the tower defense genre – Kingdom Rush from Ironhide Game Studio became known.

A well-known expert on the Far Eastern markets, Serkan Toto, in his personal blog, cited some data from a study by the Tokyo MM Research Institute concerning the development of the tablet market in the Land of the Rising Sun.

The latest information on the leaders of the American Google Play games market for the week (13.05 – 19.05) from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

On June 19, Helsinki will host the Free Your Play 13 event for the first time, which will bring together the leaders of the free games market – Supercell, King, GungHo and Wargaming.

In March of this year, a small company from New Zealand, Rocket Jump Games, released a Mini Golf Matchup game. On the first day of downloading the game amounted to 1 million. The authors of the project are sure that they owe their success to working with the publisher.

Novosibirsk IT company Azoft has released an application that unites party-goers around the world.

Playnomics has revealed the brutal truth of free-to-play: the difference between the number of paying and non-paying players in mobile games reaches more than 100 times orders of magnitude. 

Yesterday we wrote that iTunes has learned to understand Yandex.Money. And we tried to understand whether the revenue of the Russian App Store will increase after that. Today we received an official comment from Yandex on this issue. 

Nextpeer has launched a closed beta testing of its solution that adds multiplayer mode to Android games.

Marmalade, the winner of many awards in the field of cross–platform development, announced today the launch of a new offer, thanks to which indie game and application developers can apply for a free Marmalade SDK license.

After the recent announcement of the not too successful results of the 2012 financial year, Square Enix thought about how to fix the situation. According to the latest information, one of the “lifebuoys” for the company may well be the development of the mobile direction. 

Russian iOS users have the opportunity to pay for purchases in iTunes using Yandex.Moneys’. Read about whether this will lead to an increase in App Store revenue in Russia in our material.

The good old “Word of Mouth” (Word of Mouth – WOM) is the most important source of information about new applications. This conclusion was made by the analysts of the company Applicier as a result of a survey of 1800 mobile gamers. 

The latest information on the leaders of the American iPhone games market for the week (May 13-19) from Distimo: tops of free, paid and cash applications in one material.

The authors of the last part of Devil May Cry and Enslaved from the British studio Ninja Theory are entering the mobile market. Last Friday, they announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Chillingo to publish their first mobile game for iOS and Android.