Samsung was also pleased with its financial report today. Its quarterly profit of $47.6 billion is largely due to the strengthening of the company’s position in the mobile device market.

Another quarterly report was published by the analytical company Strategy Analytics. According to its data, according to the results of the third quarter of this year, Android-based tablets won a significant market share from the iPad.

According to the quarterly report of the analytical company IDC, Samsung’s smartphone shipments have doubled Apple’s iPhone shipments.

Tim Cook said that in the last three months alone, the company has sold 26.9 million iPhones. She sold four times as much in a year.

Starting tonight, the cost of applications in the Russian section of the App Store is displayed in the national currency. In addition, Apple has increased the prices of applications in a number of European countries.

At a teleconference on Apple’s financial activities, Tim Cook said that in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, 15% of the company’s sales were in China.

2K Games and Gearbox have already officially presented a mysterious iOS title under the Borderlands franchise. It turned out to be the Legends role-playing strategy.

Gartner analysts are confident that in four years Android will become the most popular operating system in general, and not only among its mobile competitors. 

The founder of the world’s largest social network said that things in its gaming segment are not going exactly as he would like.

Kim Swift, who had a hand in the first part of Portal, Left 4 Dead and the Quantum Conundrum logic puzzle, is working on an original match3 puzzle. 

Yesterday, Zynga published its quarterly financial report. The company’s losses amounted to a record $52.7 million. 

With each new version of Android, the platform’s monetization indicators are growing, according to Tapjoy. According to the company’s latest research, the ARPU of the latest version of the OS from Google has reached $1.63.

The lecture-workshop was conducted by Dmitry Zaretsky, the head of the company mobbtech.com in September 2012 in St. Petersburg. The article contains quite a lot of his quotes.

Great news for those who promote apps on Apple’s mobile platform: Google has implemented monitoring of iOS downloads through AdWords.

Yesterday came the news about the acquisition by the Japanese social giant GREE of the Pokelabo game studio. 

According to the DigiTimes resource, the Taiwanese company Compal Electronics, a strategic partner of Acer and Lenovo, is drastically reducing the staff involved in the development and testing of tablets.

Facebook has published a financial report for the third quarter of this year, according to which 14% of the company’s revenue comes from mobile advertising.

The social company is giving up 5% of its staff, closing several internal studios and ceasing support for 13 projects, the founder of Zynga said.

Vladimir Kolesnikov, an expert on strategic technologies at Microsoft, gave an exclusive interview to the App2Top portal. As part of a rather lengthy conversation, we discussed the reason for creating separate operating systems for smartphones and tablets, the issue of porting applications to them, as well as the features of monetization of games on Windows 8 and WP8.