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.

The iOS platform is still the leader in the global tablet market, but Google soon hopes – and not unreasonably – to push it. And if until now the share of the search company’s platform in the tablet market has been growing mainly due to a wide range of devices and low prices for them, now Google has taken up content. 

To date, more than 80 thousand fake versions of Bad Piggies containing viruses have already been downloaded, according to Barracuda Networks. 

The Simpsons: Tapped Out took first place in the American box office apps chart after the appearance of the living dead in the game. 

Japanese social gaming giant GREE is buying up Western studios, assembling teams in San Francisco, Vancouver and London, and now it is also establishing partnerships with indie developers.

Zynga has been showing disappointing financial results in recent quarters. Many analysts doubt that it will return to profitability in the foreseeable future. In addition, its transition to the mobile segment turned out to be more difficult than expected.

Rovio on Friday published an animated gif with a bird-jayday on the official tumblr page of the Angry Birds game.

Players in various farms have long figured out how not to pay for content that takes a long time to build and accumulate (buildings, number of moves, game resources, etc.). We decided to check how relevant this topic is on iOS today: have they started fighting it, and if so, how. 

Apple is losing not only the American, but also the Russian tablet market. This can be judged by the results of a study by the analytical company GfK, which was presented by the newspaper Vedomosti. 

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: a big interview with Yandex about its mobile plans; word of mouth – as the main marketing tool in the mobile application market; the answer to the question of how successfully the new Rovio game went; the secrets of the mobile multiplayer and much, much more.  

A little more than a month has passed since the launch of the store in Europe, and Amazon is already announcing its intentions to open its own digital store in the land of the rising sun. 

Google Play earns a lot more than 6 months ago. According to analysts from App Annie, the revenues of the official Android app store increased by 137% in the first six months. This has already been felt by some mobile developers both in their home and international markets.

Wendy Kidd, a developer from Blockdot, shared his thoughts on how best to build the gameplay of mobile multiplayer games, at the same time telling about what they basically are.

AppFlood, an exclusive cross-promotion platform for Android, generates 200 million ad views per month, according to its founders from Papaya Mobile. 

The mobile app industry has created 519,000 jobs in the U.S. since 2007, according to CTIA, the international association of the wireless telecommunications industry.