PlayHaven, a company engaged in monetization and promotion of applications, has announced the creation of an office in Europe. It was headed by Ville Heijari, former vice President of Marketing at Rovio.

Yulia Sakharova, director of HeadHunter North-West, spoke at the Winter Nights conference about the supply and demand in the labor market of mobile application developers.

On the official website of the Tizen project, supported by the Linux Foundation, a message appeared about the release of the SDK and source code of the second version of the Tizen mobile platform, codenamed Magnolia.

Last year was so eventful that many managed to forget about the project, which last spring was promised the laurels of Angry Birds – Draw Something.

The Finnish company decided in an unexpected way to celebrate overcoming the mark of 1 billion views on its own YouTube channel.

Wooga company talks about the growing up of casual players, its plans for midcore, the secrets of the success of mobile games and the future of the industry in our exclusive interview from Germany. 

From August to January, Google Play revenues increased by 107%, during the same period only three new games managed to earn $ 1 million per week, new publishers are hardly entering the market – this and much more is reported in its new report by Distimo. 

SB Studio company announces the final stage of development of a massively multiplayer game for mobile devices called Tactical Clash.

The free mobile app testing service has moved into beta for Android programs. 

Sebastian Kreise, Strategic Partnership Manager at Wooga, at the Winter Nights conference, told why Diamond Dash has won such success with users, and gave advice on using effective viral mechanics.

According to the forecasts of Juniper Research specialists, in 2016, users of tablet games will spend over $3 billion on IAP.

The company Fireproof Games has announced that it is working on a sequel to The Room, “The best iPad game of 2012” according to Apple.

Canonical announced Ubuntu for “tablets”, and at the same time told in detail about its revolutionary features. 

China is one step away from becoming the largest market for active iOS and Android devices in the world. The number of such gadgets in Russia is much smaller, which does not prevent our homeland from being in the top ten largest mobile device markets. 

App Annie has started displaying statistics on the Amazon Appstore. Now, from the website of the American company, you can track the position of paid and free applications in this store. 

Mikhail Katkoff, Supercell Product Manager, spoke at the Winter Nights conference. In his report, he shed light on the success story of Clash of Clans, told about the difficulties the team faced and what experience it gained in preparing the game for launch.

Newzoo summed up the results of 2012. According to them, in total, smartphone and tablet users spent $9 billion in 2012. This is 32% more than a year earlier.

The record-breaking performance of the game from GungHo demonstrated the extremely high potential of the mobile market, against which Supercell earnings seem to be far from the largest on iOS and Android.

The other day there was the release of Wanderer: War Song, a strange project that made us wonder why such games are still appearing on the mobile market.