Sony Mobile has officially announced its intention to reduce costs and improve the operational efficiency of the division by laying off some of its employees.

The Finnish company Applicier, specializing in cross-promotion of mobile applications, has launched a beta version of a new social mobile gaming network called Everyplay, running on iOS devices. The main feature of this service is the ability to share videos of your best gaming sessions with friends.  

British magazine Tap! The iPhone and iPad magazine visualized all Apple’s achievements in one colorful infographic under the uncomplicated title “iOS is great”. After reviewing the presented data, it is difficult to disagree. 

According to analytical data from Localytics, Nokia dominates the global smartphone market on the Windows Phone platform.

The Coding Monkeys, the authors of one of the most successful adaptations of the board game for iOS – Carcassonne, which lasted in the American box office top 200 games for iPad for more than a year and a half, today announced the release of their new project – Lost Cities. 

Currently, the Unity engine is used by over 1.2 million registered developers. These and other statistics were published by the CEO of Unity Technologies, David Helgason, opening the Unite 2012 conference currently taking place in Amsterdam. 

The first information about the venue and timing of the sixth Mobilefest, a conference-festival for mobile application developers, has appeared. 

Today, Google announced the imminent start of sales of gift cards for Google Play.

PopCap Games is reorganizing, within which about 50 people will be laid off. It seems that even successful developers are sometimes forced to make, as they say, “unpopular” decisions.

Presumably, sales of the new iPhone will start on September 21. This conclusion can be reached based on the personnel policy of Verizon.

It turns out that IAP largely depends on how many applications are installed on the user’s device and, most importantly, which applications are paid or free, analysts from Apsalar found out.  

The publisher of popular flash and mobile games (including Gravity Guy, Extreme Skater and the Hambo series) announced that the total number of installations of its projects on iOS and Android exceeded 100 million. 

This became known at the Unity 2012 conference currently taking place in Amsterdam.

On August 21, Nival announced the release of the turn-based online strategy King’s Bounty: Legions in the version for iPad tablets. Thus, the million army of its users who play this game on social networks Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, My World and on the Kongregate portal will be replenished by iPad owners. 

An interesting statistic was published by Anketki Research. According to their report called Digital Parenting Russia Study, mobile devices are rapidly gaining popularity among the children’s audience. 

Rovio has announced a new musical episode of Angry Birds, created in collaboration with the popular American band Green Day.

Yesterday, on the pages of the Gamasutra portal, Henry Fong, executive director of Yodo1, a Chinese publisher that helps Western publishers enter the Celestial market, spoke in detail about what the Chinese gaming application market is today.  

Good news on the street for all fans of zombies and gardening: PopCap Games, which has not spoiled us with releases for a long time, announced the development of a sequel to its tower defense. 

As of September 1st, a law comes into effect in the Russian Federation titled “On the Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development.” Specifically, this involves mandatory age category labeling for video games, as outlined in the law.