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.

Today, as planned by Sony, the PlayStation Mobile app store has opened, supporting the PS Vita and a number of devices certified by the Japanese company on the Android platform. The store’s starter package is 20 games.

MrNumber has shared a curious infographic about American Android users. As it turned out, 63% of Google OS users are absolutely not interested in buying an iPhone.

App2Top.ru together with the Appprofessionals website, he conducts a small survey. You can answer anonymously, but be sure to be honest :) The first 10 who answered – a gift!

Over the past year, the Apple company has lost more than a quarter of the tablet device market in the United States. Now it has a little more than 50%. 

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The budget of the mobile system from the Finnish startup Jolla is already more than 200 million euros, the company’s executive director Jussi Hurmola said in an interview with the Talouselama portal.

One of our readers, independent developer Andrey Gulenko, collected interesting statistics on the release of new applications and updates for iPad in the Russian App Store last September.

Chinese suppliers claim that Microsoft is preparing to produce its own smartphone based on Windows Phone 8.

Rovio until recently was something of an idol for mobile developers, being a company that was able to not only earn money on one game, but also build an entire entertainment empire – with cartoons, coloring books, soft toys and gelatin candies.

The American company Discovery Bay, together with the French from Gameloft, is going to release a full-fledged Duo Gamer iOS game controller that supports iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Distimo has published a study on the difficulties of translation in the App Store. Analysts found out which language was the most popular in applications in August 2012 and how much localization affects revenue. 

Almost all developers, even beginners, know that making a mobile game is only half the battle. Much more important is the question of how users find out about it. Gamasutra has published the results of a study whose main goal was to get an answer to this question.

Yesterday it became known that Yandex is launching its own app store. Head of Yandex service.Store Alexander Zverev told us about the details of the new app store.