The Russian analytical companies WapStart and Openstat conducted a study of the mobile audience of the Runet in order to evaluate the advertising opportunities of this market segment.

It became known about the cost reduction for the 16 GB version of the tablet, as well as the appearance of a new 32 GB model. 

Today we have the 600th subscriber on Facebook! It was Andrey Dankevich, who receives from us as a gift a ticket to the Winter Nights: Mobile Games Conference (February 8-9, 2013, St. Petersburg)! Chillingo, App Annie, Pocket Gamer, FishLabs (creators of Galaxy on Fire), Flurry, Unity, Marmalade have already confirmed their participation in the event, Mail.Ru , PlayFirst, Microsoft and Google. Who wants to meet personally with the leading market players?

Today it became known about the attraction of $ 75 million to the company IMI.VC (In Mobile Investment), which invests in the field of mobile and social games.

The results of a study conducted by BigInsight showed that young Americans prefer Android, and their grandfathers prefer iOS.

The most interesting articles and materials of App2Top last week: Apple introduced new iPads; Big Fish talked about its casino, and Nevosoft about the Russian market; Alawar described the main mistakes of developers; Wild Tangent CEO revealed the difference between Russian and American businesses. Also in the issue: mobile advertising brings Facebook $152 million per quarter, the App Store is now ruble and much, much more 

The largest online retailer Amazon.com Inc. reported on the financial results of the third quarter.  For the first time in the last 4 years, the company suffered losses. However, these indicators do not run counter to Amazon’s development strategies.

Opera has published a report on the state of the mobile advertising market for the third quarter. According to her data, despite the dominance of the Android platform in terms of traffic, iOS still brings the greatest profit from mobile advertising.

App Annie company announced in its official blog that over the past 24 months, the profit coming from mobile applications distributed for free on iOS has quadrupled, and on Google Play – 3.5 times. 

Google has canceled the planned presentation of new smartphones and tablets of the Nexus line, as well as the announcement of Android 4.2.

Today, October 26 – with a difference of one day with the worldwide release of Windows 8 – Microsoft has released the Surface tablet to the American market. 

One of the best games in the Grand Theft Auto series – the neon masterpiece Vice City – will appear on the windows of mobile markets this fall, Rockstar has officially announced.

Samsung was also pleased with its financial report today. Its quarterly profit of $47.6 billion is largely due to the strengthening of the company’s position in the mobile device market.

Another quarterly report was published by the analytical company Strategy Analytics. According to its data, according to the results of the third quarter of this year, Android-based tablets won a significant market share from the iPad.

According to the quarterly report of the analytical company IDC, Samsung’s smartphone shipments have doubled Apple’s iPhone shipments.

Tim Cook said that in the last three months alone, the company has sold 26.9 million iPhones. She sold four times as much in a year.

Starting tonight, the cost of applications in the Russian section of the App Store is displayed in the national currency. In addition, Apple has increased the prices of applications in a number of European countries.

At a teleconference on Apple’s financial activities, Tim Cook said that in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, 15% of the company’s sales were in China.

2K Games and Gearbox have already officially presented a mysterious iOS title under the Borderlands franchise. It turned out to be the Legends role-playing strategy.