Mark Pincus’ company continues to strengthen in the middle core project market. One of the last steps is the acquisition of a small team of November Software developers.

Half of Rovio’s annual profit in the near future will come from merchandising, as well as drinks and food “based on motives,” the Finnish company said. 

RIM is ready to give developers their own tablets if developers will make games for BlackBerry.  

Recently, the approval period for applications in the App Store has increased significantly, according to the AllThingsD resource, and those developers who planned to release their application by Christmas may not have time.

According to the DigiTimes resource, Apple is shortening the life cycle of its devices and plans to release a test batch of a new generation iPhone in December.

On December 8-9, in less than a month, a Flash Gamm! conference dedicated to flash, social and mobile games will be held in Kiev. The program of the event has already been approved and is available on the website.

As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted in an interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien, sales of the Surface tablet “started modestly.”

Apple has decided to change its policy in the Eastern European market. One of the first steps is to reduce the prices of our own products in Russia. 

A small study by the analytical company PriceGrabber showed that most Americans want to get a tablet as a Christmas gift. Moreover, tablets for the first time bypassed conventional personal computers in these indicators.

As reported by BGR with reference to the developers of CMA Megacorp, a new display defect has been found in the iPhone 5, which may be a serious problem for game developers.

The developers of Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition are going to release the iOS version of Shadows Of Amn, the second part of the cult role-playing game in the Dungeons& Dragons universe, by the end of summer 2013.

The new project of Rovio and Lucasfilm took less than three hours to become the top game of the American paid App Store in the iPhone version.

The executive director of Zynga said that the word “innovation” is understood differently in his company than in other game studios.  

The price for installation in the Land of the Rising Sun is much higher than in the United States, said one of the vice-presidents of the Japanese company GREE.  

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: mobile “Star Wars” with birds in the main roles, the project Molyneux was not ready for the revolution (again), the best day for the release of the application is Monday. 

The Chinese vendor ranked third in the global top manufacturers in terms of the number of deliveries of smart phones in the third quarter of this year. Finnish Nokia may drop out of the top by the new year. 

Apple sent out letters to developers warning about the departure of iTunes for the holidays on December 21.    

Sony’s portable console is no longer the most powerful mobile device: Apple’s fourth-generation tablet has overtaken the PS Vita in performance. 

According to RBC daily, MTS, the Russian mobile network operator, earned about 800 million rubles on mobile applications in the third quarter alone.