App Annie has presented a list of 50 mobile publishers who earned the most money on iOS in 2011. 

The AppsGeyser company claims: the chances of gaining several tens of thousands of downloads without ads in 6 months for a regular application on the Google platform are reduced to zero. 

About 100 million American users play on their smartphones, tablets and iPod touch devices, according to experts from Newzoo.

HeyMoose Companies! and DigitalHR, with the support of the business incubator of the Higher School of Economics, organized a competition for flash game developers called GamaK.   

This time, at our virtual table, we are trying to figure out what, first of all, it will be necessary to focus on this year, in which market it will be possible to earn the most and whether it is worth waiting for drastic changes in the market from 2012. 

The creators of angry birds recently took under their wing the gaming division of a company well known for its series of popular graphics accelerator tests.

The second part of the article written following the results of the GDC 2012 conference by John Jordan, editor of the site pocketgamer.biz , about the main trends of the mobile industry this year.

Apple has begun to remove applications that use access to UDID, the unique identification number of each iPhone and iPad. 

A few days ago, a French publisher signed contracts with several film studios to develop mobile games based on the most anticipated May (and not only) blockbusters of this year. 

A little over a week ago, we posted the first part of our audio project “Virtual Round Table”. It was dedicated to a topic that is burning for any developer – “How much money does it take to make a successful application?”. In that issue, experts talked about what to do with the application when development is over. And today we offer a text version of this issue.

Hot news: The company Rovio used the Twitter service to announce that their new game has collected in some three days the number of downloads that most mobile app developers dream of. 

While the hot Finnish guys from Rovio are watching the successful launch of Angry Birds Space, a game that currently tops the tops in 99 countries, their neighbors from Mountain Sheep also decided to show off the results. 

A representative of the Finnish company Rovio last Friday said that the company is not going to publish Angry Birds Space on Windows Phone 7. Analysts considered this statement a serious blow to the Microsoft platform, which may well negatively affect its future. However, as it turned out later, everything is not so sad. 

The advertising and analytical company Flurry has discovered that the Chinese mobile app market is the second largest in the world. A year ago, he was the tenth. Moreover, according to some indicators, it is already ahead of the “number one” – the American market. 

The game, thanks to which Bioware became famous, will appear in the Apple App Store in the summer in a version for the new iPad. 

Strange news came from Canada: Research In Motion (also known as RIM) is looking for an iOS developer with 7 to 10 years of experience. The guys overheated while working on the new iPad – no other way. 

A small but extremely important piece of news marked “urgent”. Today, a game has been released, about which, most likely, we will write more than once, sharing its record downloads and, accordingly, sales – Angry Birds Space.

One of the leading players in the social games market has acquired the creators of the social and mobile hit Draw Something – OMGPOP company for almost a quarter of a billion dollars. There is an opinion that this is one of the most successful Zynga deals. 

Mobile games are made, as a rule, with the expectation of short-term gaming sessions. It is assumed that this approach to design allows you to play them anywhere – on the way, in a diner, in a queue when there is nothing to do. But according to the latest study of the gaming audience, they are most often played at home.