The number of downloads from the Android Market in Russia, the UK, Germany and Spain is more than from the Apple App Store. 

Congratulations to all men on the holiday, and in order not to get tired of reading the news on the weekend, we suggest listening to them. In this issue we will tell you about the App Store’s from different countries, let’s do a small overview of the tablet market and say a few words about how Rovio Mobile launches Angry Birds into space.

Apple’s popularity plays into the hands of developers: they receive $12 from each iOS device sold by the company.

MTS, one of the largest Russian telecom operators, and more recently one of the largest retailers, has published data on the Russian smartphone market for the whole of 2011. 

Analysts from Nielsen recently shared detailed information about American smartphone users. 

One of the developers of mobile applications made a small series about how to write code correctly for a promising platform from Microsoft. 

RIM will release a new version of its mobile platform for tablets. It promises support for Android applications and its own email client.  

Almost exactly a month later, on March 22-24, Mobilefest, a festival for mobile application developers, will take place in the Moscow region. Two parallel sections are provided for participants, including panel discussions on current topics of the mobile industry, reports and master classes by experts.

Barnes & Noble is going to launch a “cropped” version of its tablet in the American retail chain Wal-Mart on February 22 at a price of $ 199. 

The Apple company has published a detailed description of how to develop, test and register applications for the App Store.

Angry Birds developers are going to release a new original project; tablet shipments will decrease this quarter; the release of the iPad 3 is overgrown with rumors.

The other day, Apple announced that the number of downloads from the App Store has come close to the mark of 25 billion.

In the new release of App2Top: Apple is ready to introduce the iPad 3 to the world, fans of the Tiny Tower game criticized its clone from Zynga, and Sony is preparing to conquer the smartphone and tablet market.

Analysts from App Annie have revealed seven main trends in the mobile segment of the gaming industry. Among them: doubling of iPad app revenue, accelerated growth of IAP purchases and much more. 

Google is going to pull attention away from the release of Windows 8 by releasing the fifth version of Android in the second quarter of 2012.

Some developers admitted that they used the services of bots. Among them are such companies as Fiksu, TinyCo and Storm8. Apparently, it’s time for Apple to change the ranking algorithm. 

The final article is about optimizing the search and descriptions of mobile applications. In it you will learn something about working in such markets as Amazon Appstore, Vodafon AppSelect and V Cast Apps from Verizon. 

The organizers of the Mobilefest conference announced the start of accepting applications for the EuraMedia Mobilefest App Contest, created by the MDDay project (Russia) together with Idea Media (USA).

Fans of the company NibleBit massively underestimate the rating of the newly released game Dream Heights from Zynga in the App Store.