Tapjoy has launched a new service for developers that will help encourage users to take certain actions: make purchases, return to the app, or complete the game to the end.

Developer Ernest Woo talked about the advantages and difficulties associated with creating games for Amazon.

According to the results of the third quarter of this year, 75% of the global smartphone market belongs to Android.

An updated version of the Marmalade SDK engine was released today, numbered 6.1.2. It now has full support for iOS 6, Xcode 4.5 and iPhone 5.

Recently, Betable, a company engaged in digital betting for real money, announced the signing of partnership agreements with three gaming companies – Slingo, Digital Chocolate and Murka Games.

The App Store is used for promotion by all the largest companies in the world. This conclusion was made by Distimo after analyzing the Apple mobile application market.

Apple has released an update for the iOS mobile operating system to version 6.0.1 and a beta version of iOS 6.1.

The company’s internal studio yesterday released Air Patriots, Amazon’s first mobile project developed immediately for Kindle, Android and iOS. 

The search giant has demonstrated the impact of holidays on the number of search queries and advertising clicks on mobile devices. 

Crowned with laurels, the Finnish Rovio team, together with fellow countrymen from Nokia, is preparing another replenishment of the Angry Birds franchise called Angry Birds Roost (“Roost of Angry Birds”) exclusively for the Lumia line of smartphones based on Windows Phone.

In September, the price of a loyal iPhone user in the United States fell to the level of May 2011, as for the number of downloads, it remained almost at the level of August. 

There was a rumor that the presentation of the new flagship smartphone model from the Korean company Samsung is already scheduled for the beginning of next year.

A study of the mobile audience conducted by Flurry showed that older users prefer tablets to smartphones, the main activity of “tablets” falls at nine in the evening, and also that they play on them much more than on “smart tubes”. 

The first snow has fallen – we can assume that winter has come. This means that the coolest mobile gaming conference Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference will take place soon.

The German studio Wooga yesterday announced the release of its very popular Facebook game Bubble Island on the iOS platform.

The number of iPhone users intending to purchase a smartphone of the same brand in the future has decreased for the first time since 2007, according to Strategy Analytics. 

Strategy Analytics has published a report on the analysis of the smartphone market for the third quarter of this year. According to the data obtained, the combined supply of market-leading Apple and Samsung occupy more than half of the global smartphone market.

Last night there was a large-scale malfunction of iCloud, during which a warning hung on the official Apple website to users about the impossibility of using any iCloud services other than Mail and iChat.

The indie team of industry veteran Peter Molyneux 22Cans has announced that the release of its experimental mobile game Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube for iOS and Android will take place on November 7 at 0:22 Pacific time.