I drove here recently on the bus for several hours and entertained an 8-year-old kid with my iPhone. More precisely, the beta version of one of our games. A couple of minutes later, the boy asked me a question: “Is there a store here?” The game provides in-app’s – both for in-game currency and for real money, but because

Sociality Rocks and Game Insight companies, organizers of Live Mobile! Russian Mobile Congress, approved the program of the congress.

Samsung Galaxy III became the best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, significantly surpassing the former market leader – iPhone 4S. 

Most of the profits from the mobile app market will come from advertising next year. 

Yesterday HTC sent out invitations to media representatives for a joint presentation with Verizon. The event will take place on November 13 in New York.

Yesterday, the share price of the Apple company reached its lowest level in the last 5 months. The reason is the constant shortage of iPhone5.

Chartboost presented the price dynamics for CPC campaigns, the number of views and the level of downloads by day of the week. Judging by their data, projects launched on the App Store on Sunday or Monday receive certain advantages over applications released on other days of the week. 

The analytical company AppBrain recently published statistics on the ecosystem of the Android platform. The report shows quantitative indicators of app downloads per month, their popularity by category and the top Android smartphones.

Less than an hour ago, Rovio, together with Lucasfilm, launched its new project in the Star Wars universe, Angry Birds Star Wars, on seven platforms at once.

The Millennial Media advertising network is suffering heavy losses, but since entering the market last March, they have been declining.   

Yesterday, November 7, a remake of the ancient 8-bit game Karateka appeared in Xbox Live Arcade. It is also expected to be released on the iOS platform this month. 

By the end of this year, 70% of PC sales will be on mobile devices, according to Gartner. This is largely due to the increasing interest in them from the business environment.

Peter Molyneux’s first mobile game, Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube, was released on the App Store yesterday. Almost immediately, the project server collapsed from the influx of users. But this did not prevent the development team from publishing the first statistics on the project.  

The Japanese publisher acquired 20% of the company that created Rage of Bahamut, and spent almost $ 100 million on it. 

Microsoft’s service – My Xbox Live – transformed into Xbox SmartGlass on iOS devices tonight. Thanks to the official update. 

A month later, on December 14, Mobile Developer&Business Day Russia, a conference dedicated to mobile technologies, will be held in Moscow. The speakers will be representatives of Zeptolab, Mediocre, Parallels, Samsung, Playmous, Marmalade and many others.

Microsoft Corporation is developing a seven-inch gaming tablet under the Xbox brand. Its approximate characteristics are already known, unlike the date of the official announcement and release.

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Colleagues, let’s put together a list of parameters that accurately affect or may affect the position of the application in the Google Play search results. Of course, the frequency of key queries affects the positions directly. At the moment, from personal experience, I can add that there is also a synergistic effect.