By the end of this year, about 45.6 billion applications will be downloaded worldwide, Gartner estimates. Moreover, the absolute majority of them will be distributed either under the free-to-play scheme or freemium.

Amazon has allowed the purchase of physical goods from its app store.

Startup Agawi announced the conclusion of an agreement with Microsoft Corporation. According to it, the game streaming service from Agawi will be available on all Windows 8 devices (including tablets). 

According to the results of the second quarter, Apple devices account for 31% of all mobile advertising views in the United States, Millennial Media reports in its latest report. 

The American audience of smartphone users is getting younger. Nielsen analysts came to such conclusions, finding that over the year the number of teenagers with smartphones in the United States increased by an impressive 22%.

Apple still allowed Big Fish Games to release Big Fish Casino in the UK – the first mobile gambling game for real money.

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Last week, Amazon introduced a whole line of Kindle Fire HD devices. The stated “pleasant” prices for the company’s devices are compensated by built-in advertising.  

Today, most mobile developers face a seemingly unsolvable question: how to attract attention to their project in a crowd of diverse projects of the wildest colors. Last year, one of the most popular ways to stand out and, thereby, get yourself in the unequal struggle of users, was to shoot a trailer. 

Nukotoys has announced a new Touchcode technology used in the card games Animal Planet Wildlands and Monsterology.

Liverpool-based publisher Thumbstar signed a contract with South American provider NII Holding two weeks ago to release a number of its projects in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. In connection with this transaction, Pocket Gamer took an interview with Thumbstar Executive Director Gareth Edmondson (Gareth Edmondson).  

Recently, Apple has been significantly expanding its presence in Russia: Apple Rus registration, in the future, the opening of its own Apple Store stores in Russia, and now access to iTunes. 

The Double Fine studio shared information about how it used the accidental release of its first mobile game for iOS, Middle Manager of Justice, for the good of the cause.

Game analysts from the company EEDAR found out that the key to success in the mobile market is the so–called “killer whales” – users who spend more than $70 on mobile games every month. 

Last Saturday (September 8), a seminar for mobile application developers – MAD’day, organized by the MAD’school training center, took place in St. Petersburg.

The minimalistic electronic project Super Hexagon, according to its creator Terry Cavanagh, was bought more than 10 thousand times in just three days. 

Activision, Crytek and Gameloft supported Kindle Fire HD tablets announced by Amazon at the end of last week.

The last working week pleased mobile users with three high-profile game releases at once. Marvel has released a three-dimensional project about the Hulk in the Avengers universe, Gameloft has revealed the theme of “Gothic” on mobile devices, and Zynga has shown where the match3 genre should evolve.

Chinese publisher CocoaChina is proud to announce that the number of downloads of its mobile game Fishing Joy has exceeded the milestone of 100 million.