Piper Jaffray investment company has published the results of its own research on the preferences of more than 7.7 thousand American teenagers. According to its results, analysts found out that 40% of them have an iPhone (last year there were 34% of them, the year before that – 23%).

Sales of a new 7-inch tablet from Google – Nexus 7 – will start tomorrow in large Russian dealer networks.

We have already reported that many mobile games from the legendary Japanese publisher Square Enix have price tags with very high figures. The other day, a representative of the company’s press service revealed to the authors of the famous Kotaku game blog some details of its pricing policy.

Do users who play social games (including on mobile devices) want to read in-game text? With such a question, Gamasutra journalist Frank Cifaldi turned to the authors of Indiana Jones Adventure World from Zynga.

Glu Mobile has announced the conclusion of a partnership agreement with Probability PLC, specializing in mobile gambling. As part of this collaboration, Probability will develop mobile “slot machines” based on the original IP from Glu Mobile, including Contract Killer, Deer Hunter and Gun Bros.

In May, Rovio reported that the total number of downloads of all games under the Angry Birds franchise reached 1 billion. Not a huge amount, considering that, for example, the total number of all downloads from the App Store is 25 billion. Today, new details about the famous “bird” brand have become known.

PowerA, a company specializing in peripherals and accessories, announced the imminent launch of its own controller for Android devices and at the same time announced its broad support from developers.  

The analytical company GigaOm conducted a study of the earnings of mobile application developers. Most of them receive no more than $500 per month from one program.

Analysts claim that the cost of Microsoft Surface will be at the level of budget PCs and ultrabooks. And this is without taking into account the spectacular keyboard cover. 

Steve Ballmer, chief executive Officer of Microsoft, in an open letter to shareholders, customers, partners and employees of the corporation announced “fundamental transformations” at Microsoft. According to the new strategy, the company intends to independently produce devices, software and services, forming a single ecosystem of them.

According to representatives of the Finnish Supercell, its two f2p games for iOS earn over $500,000 daily. Thus, taking into account the 30% that Apple has left, the Clash of Clans strategy and the Hay Day farm bring about $350 thousand to the “hot Finnish guys” every day. 

On October 24, another gaming conference will be held in Kiev, organized by the Casual Games Association and dedicated to mobile, social and, of course, casual games.

For the third quarter, the net profit of the Taiwanese company HTC fell by 79%, compared to the same period last year, and amounted to $ 133 million.

Journalists from PocketGamer decided to figure out what a paid game can count on in today’s mobile app market. Is there an opportunity to make money not on f2p and not on freemium when it comes to iOS and Android?

The Google search company, together with Koreans from Samsung, will release a tablet with a 10.1-inch screen in the Nexus line.

As part of its current strategy of active penetration into Western markets, which we wrote about no later than yesterday, the Japanese giant GREE is launching a new program under the slogan GREE Loves Indies. Its target audience is independent mobile game developers from the United States.

At the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) conference, Trent Peterson from AppThwack, a company that tests Android applications, advised developers on several tools that will help optimize application testing.

The growth of the mobile gaming industry weakens the demand for social and casual PC games, Cowen reports & Company. 

According to MacRumors, the iPad Mini may not be the only device introduced by Apple in October. According to rumors, the company additionally announces an updated version of the iPad 3.