Tonight in New York, together with Verizon, HTC, as expected, introduced the Droid DNA smartphone.

The search giant’s social network has received a small but significant innovation: direct links to applications from Google Play.

MTS has announced its plans to close the MTS Store service. 

Apple has banned the use of the word “memory” in the name of applications, the Gamasutra portal reports, citing developers who have already received a notification from the Apple company. 

The DeNA card role-playing battler shifted the Rage of Bahamut game, which had been at the top of the chart since April 2012, from the first position of the American top box office Google Play applications. 

In October of this year, the total funding of $360 million accounted for 91 mobile startups.  

The Tapjoy advertising network is again under pressure from Apple. Glu Mobile has already lowered its financial forecasts for the fourth quarter in this regard. Tapjoy denies everything. 

While American users are dreaming about what kind of “apple” tablet they would like for Christmas, the Moscow Regional Duma is already buying iPads for deputies of the Moscow region for the New Year.

The vice president of Microsoft and the head of the Windows and Windows Live division, announced his retirement from the corporation.

Live Mobile organizers today and tomorrow! 5 free tickets to the congress are being raffled off.

RIM has announced the launch date of BlackBerry 10. Its new operating system will be unveiled on January 30, 2013.

Disney is abandoning the development of traditional console projects in favor of mobile and social games. 

Mark Pincus’ company continues to strengthen in the middle core project market. One of the last steps is the acquisition of a small team of November Software developers.

Half of Rovio’s annual profit in the near future will come from merchandising, as well as drinks and food “based on motives,” the Finnish company said. 

RIM is ready to give developers their own tablets if developers will make games for BlackBerry.  

Recently, the approval period for applications in the App Store has increased significantly, according to the AllThingsD resource, and those developers who planned to release their application by Christmas may not have time.

According to the DigiTimes resource, Apple is shortening the life cycle of its devices and plans to release a test batch of a new generation iPhone in December.

On December 8-9, in less than a month, a Flash Gamm! conference dedicated to flash, social and mobile games will be held in Kiev. The program of the event has already been approved and is available on the website.

As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted in an interview with the French newspaper Le Parisien, sales of the Surface tablet “started modestly.”