Last Friday, GREE announced that its OpenFeint service will cease to function on December 14. 

Microsoft Corporation, a month after the Surface was released, announced the development of an entire ecosystem of mobile devices under its own brand.

The degree of smartphone penetration in the United States in the third quarter of this year was 70%, according to analysts at NPD, and also share the names of the most popular smartphones in the States. 

The volume of the Russian mobile games market by the end of 2012 will amount to $392 million, according to the experts of the analytical company J’son & Partners in their study “The Russian mobile games market”.

Google has released a mobile game Ingress (“Penetration”), tied to the real world.

Earlier than the announced deadline (November 20), Amazon began shipping the Kindle Fire HD tablet with an 8.9-inch screen.

The developers of Punch Quest refused to distribute the game for free, considering that it was “too generous”. 

Finnish application developer Futuremark is releasing a single 3DMark test for Windows, Windows RT, Android and iOS.

According to the latest data from the analytical company Azimco, Apple and Samsung controlled 99% of the mobile industry’s profits in the third quarter, but Apple’s share declined significantly.

Microsoft has announced another competition for application developers. Among the best applications, a prize will be raffled – promotion in the Windows Store during the New Year holidays!

The operating profit of the Japanese company for the last quarter fell significantly compared to last year. GREE attributes the drop to large expansion costs. 

The South Korean game developer and publisher reported a significant increase in profit in the third quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2011.

On November 24 and 25, a Crash course of product managers will be held in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the creation, management and promotion of mobile applications. 

The Japanese gaming giant will allow web application developers to publish projects on their own gaming platform.

Apple is recruiting employees to the Moscow subsidiary of Apple Rus LLC.

Unity Technologies has officially launched the latest version of its multiplatform engine.

In the third quarter, the Umeng analytical company noted an increase in the number of iOS and Android-based mobile devices in China, a decrease in the number of jailbroken devices, and an increase in the number of user sessions in applications.

One of the founders of Apple turned out to be Danny Trejo’s assistant in a mobile game based on the movie “Revenge”.

169 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the third quarter, of which 122 million were devices based on the Android platform, Gartner experts estimate.