The second week of spring turned out to be extremely eventful. Tim Cook announced the new iPad; Rovio spoke in detail about the new version of Angry Birds; GDC managed to start and end in San Francisco. About all this and not only in our new material.

Google has launched its own “cloud” service Google Play. Now all applications, music, videos and books uploaded by users will be stored on Google servers, and they can be accessed from a smartphone, tablet or PC. In terms of functionality, the novelty, to put it mildly, resembles Apple’s iCloud.

Last Friday, Microsoft presented the new OS at the Windows 8 Camp event and talked about its features, development tools and the new Windows Store application store. You could follow the course of events on our Twitter, and now we offer a small report.

On June 14-15, 2012, White Nights: Mobile Games Conference will be held in St. Petersburg – the first and only international conference dedicated to mobile games in Russia. Not apps, not app stores, not platforms, but games on mobile platforms. The App2Top portal acts as the main information sponsor.

Google has announced that now the size of applications uploaded by developers to the Android Market can reach 4GB. At the same time, the size of the APK (Android Package) file of the program should still not exceed 50 MB.

Over the weekend, a clone of the popular Temple Run game appeared on the Android Market, which was downloaded 23 thousand times in a couple of days. In early February, Apple conducted a global “sweep”, removing dozens of applications that were outright clones of popular applications. Google will probably have to take action, too.

Apple has spent $ 50 million to acquire startup Chomp Inc., which specializes in the development of search algorithms for mobile applications. What does this mean for developers and publishers?

The creators of Kindle Fire have finally decided to introduce micropayments into Amazon Appstore applications. However, it is unclear exactly when developers will be able to monetize their products.

On May 17, 2012, the Flash GAMM Moscow 2012 conference dedicated to the development of flash, social and mobile games will be held in Moscow at the Cosmos Hotel. 

The analytical company AYTM claims that men are more likely than women to spend money on applications, but women install them more.

100 million downloads were scored by the games of the South Korean publisher Gamevil, known for his love of anime style and role-playing genre.

Today we will talk about the cost of applications in the App Store and in the Android Market, we will look for gold in the GetJar store and give the giants the opportunity to measure downloads.

Mobile game developers share their expectations about the upcoming announcement and release of the iPad 3.

The cost of attracting users in January fell to the results of last spring, analysts say. At the same time, the number of downloads is only growing.  

Amos Laber, an independent developer from Toronto, shared his thoughts on working on mobile games and porting them to various platforms on his blog. 

It’s already official: Apple has sent out an invitation to the iPad 3 announcement. It will take place on March 7. Along with the announcement, the first image of the future tablet appeared. 

The vice president of Google said that the new version of the platform will not be released in the summer, as previously reported, but this fall. Moreover, it will be released every year. 

Opera has announced the launch of its own payment system within the Opera Mobile Store application store. The first regional partner of the system was the Yandex service.Money.”

The Android platform has come close to iOS in terms of the number of users,” said one of the founders of the search giant.