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.

Unity-based games dominate the list of the best apps in the App Store over the past year. In total, there are 17 such projects among the laureates.

On December 10, 2012, the developer of mobile GPS audio guides Toozla added a multilingual feature to its applications.

The Finnish startup Applicier last week received investments in the amount of $ 4 million. These funds will be used to further develop the Everyplay service, which allows gamers to record video of the gameplay and share these videos with friends.

The advertising company Fiksu recently published an infographic dedicated to mobile marketing during the Christmas period in the United States. We present its translated version.

The total number of paid downloads of the mobile version of Minecraft on iOS and Android has reached 5 million. Together with the desktop and console versions, the project has gained 18 million installations.

On December 14, the third wave of iPhone 5 sales started, affecting three dozen countries, including Russia and China. In the first three days, official sales reached 2 million devices in the Chinese market alone.

The biggest and most significant events of the mobile market over the past week: Angry Birds celebrated its third anniversary, Facebook dealt another blow to virality and much more.

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.

Most developers prefer to develop applications primarily for iPhone and iPad, according to the latest quarterly report of Appcelerator and IDC. 

Many of us like to make something or do something at home ourselves. Some people don’t like it. but I have to :)  Girls like everything to be “clean, beautiful, smooth”, and we guys have to take our breath away, drag it all-align.

At the request of Google, the analytical company J’son & Partners Consulting conducted a study of the Russian mobile market. The report includes data on the number of mobile Internet users in Russia, as well as the volume and prospects of the Russian mobile market as a whole.

The Japanese giant continues to fight for the Western user, offering him serious games in a colorful wrapper, Knights & Dragons are next in line.  

Apple has named the best games and applications of the American App Store of the last twelve months. There were some surprises. Also, Yablochniki presented a list of the top free, paid and cash applications of 2012. 

The pricing of the iPhone 5 from Russian resellers is based on the principle of “who is less”. It is unlikely that this can be called an artificial price reduction (it did not reach the real dumping and the price tag below the market), but the official price of the novelty has risen to the same level as the “gray”.

Double Fine has announced that its Middle Manager of Justice game for iOS has finally been officially released in the App Store.

Last night, Russian retailers began selling “white” Apple smartphones of the sixth generation. 

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.