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. 

We have collected all the terms related to the marketing of mobile applications in one way or another in one article, which we present to your attention. We have accompanied each term with a detailed description. 

We were a little late with this news, but, as they say, better late than never. On September 26, Google announced the launch of a developer platform under the uncomplicated name Google Play services, which allows integrating the company’s services with third-party applications. 

The creators of Angry Birds are going to present their first e-book for mobile devices at the Frankfurt Book Fair in a week. 

Do you want your app to be included in the top ten free on the American App Store? You will need 54 thousand downloads daily to get into it, according to App Annie.

The Israeli startup Applicasa is working on a service that will allow mobile game developers to easily analyze the behavior of players and manage in-game purchases without bothering with the server part.

EEDAR has found that mobile players are predominantly women. For this reason, it is necessary to focus, first of all, on them. 

Despite the fact that Samsung remains the top vendor of mobile phones and smartphones in the US market, Apple is rapidly catching up with the Korean company in terms of the number of users, comScore reports.