Yesterday it became known that Yandex is launching its own app store. Head of Yandex service.Store Alexander Zverev told us about the details of the new app store. 

Last Thursday there was a new game from Rovio – Bad Piggies, which just 4 hours after the release became # 1 in the Top Paid iPhone USA. Has the Finnish company managed to make a new hit that will finally displace Angry Birds? Let’s figure it out.

According to a new point in Apple’s rulebook (Apple’s App Review Guidelines), apps that sell or advertise other people’s apps in a way reminiscent of the App Store will be removed from iTunes.

The popular game for mobile devices Temple Run can now be played without these devices. Imangi Studio, together with Spin Master Games, announced this today on its Facebook page.

A little over a week ago, we wrote that in just 24 hours since the release of iOS 6, 15% of Apple devices were installed. The other day it became known that a week after the release of the new version of the platform was on 60% of the iPhone and 41% of the iPad.

The most interesting articles and materials from App2Top last week: Oleg Pridyuk talks about why you need to work on Unity; Russian developers criticize the new version of iOS; together we analyze the update by the bones; and Aveden experts assure that the ranking algorithm in iOS 6 has changed insignificantly after the update. 

It’s been more than a week since the release of the new iOS and the update of the Apple app store, and the controversy around it has not subsided. How critical were the App Store changes for developers and what do they think about it? Read the continuation of our Friday material.

It is most expensive to advertise mobile games in Canada and Australia, and not in the USA or Japan, according to experts from Chartboost, a cross-promotion company. 

The Russian “search” company is going to launch Yandex on the first day of October.Store, Android app store. 

With the release of the new iOS, Apple has updated its online app store. We asked our readers, developers and publishers of mobile apps, to share their opinions about iOS 6. 

At the end of autumn, on November 24, the All-Ukrainian international conference on mobile technologies UA Mobile 2012 will be held in Kiev. 

According to the DigiTimes resource, by the end of this year Google will release two budget versions of the Nexus 7.

According to Hi-Tech@Mail.Ru , during the first week of unofficial sales in Russia, about 10 thousand iPhone 5 were sold.

Today, a video has appeared online showing two smartphones from RIM based on the updated BlackBerry 10.

Experts from the App Annie company claim that in iOS 6, the algorithm for ranking applications in the tops has been greatly changed. 

According to the data of the analytical company Appcelerator, developers are not satisfied with mobile applications from HTML5 and from Facebook.

Rumors, leaks, hype, pre-release turmoil around the iPhone 5 in August negatively affected both the number of downloads from the App Store and the cost of attracting users, according to Fiksu specialists.

The other day we had an interesting conversation with Oleg Pridiuk, a technical evangelist from Unity Technologies. We talked about the advantages of the Unity engine and myths about it, about the company as a whole and its strategic plans, as well as why St. Petersburg can be called the heart of Russian game development. 

Analysts admit that the new mobile platform from Mozilla will be another challenge to the current giant of the mobile market – the Android company.