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.

Market research agency eMarketer has released a report on the amount of revenue from mobile advertising in the United States. According to the forecast, by the end of 2012, Twitter will earn almost 2 times more on mobile advertising than Facebook.

The week of announcements continues. This time, Apple’s real competitor in the American tablet market, Amazon, told about his new devices. As expected, he demonstrated as many as two next-generation Kindle Fire devices: one large and one slightly smaller. 

Complaining about the high level of piracy and ignoring accusations of inadequate DRM, Ubisoft is going to f2p, and also, judging by yesterday’s announcements, it is going to be more actively engaged in the mobile business.

Gameloft continues to brag. Only in July we wrote about its excellent results for the second quarter of this year, and now, the other day, the French decided to share their financial results again. This time for the first half of 2012.

Ice cream is becoming more and more popular: the fourth version of Android accounts for almost a quarter of all devices based on the Google platform. 

Yesterday Nokia unveiled the new Lumia 920 smartphone, and today investors grabbed their heads. In just one day, the company’s shares on the Helsinki Stock Exchange collapsed by 15%.

The return on investment of mobile advertisers suffers from a high level of fraud and a large number of accidental clicks. 

Motorola Mobility, as a subsidiary of Google Corporation, has introduced three new Razr series smartphones based on the fourth version of Android.  

According to analysts from the NPD Group, the share of mobile players from the total number of American gamers today is 22%. According to this indicator, mobile has overtaken the former leader – console games. 

Nokia World was opened today in New York, where the Finnish company, together with Microsoft, officially presented the “most innovative smartphone in the world” – Lumia 920. Surprisingly, there were some surprises. 

Today, the Hi-Tech@Mail resource.Ru has published the results of a study of consumer attitudes to Nokia smartphones. According to the data presented, the rating of users’ trust in the brand has seriously fallen recently.

Given the large sales of Android devices, the cost of which is below $ 200, by the end of 2012 China will become the largest smartphone market, according to IDC.

The editors of the British Pocket Gamer portal decided to check how socially integrated large mobile companies are when it comes to social services such as Facebook and Twitter.  

comScore has published another quarterly report, according to which, the “apple” platform is rapidly increasing its presence in the American market than its main “search” competitor. All Android smartphone vendors, except HTC, are experiencing a downturn, and Microsoft, along with RIM, are losing the market.