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Analytics company App Annie forecast spending on mobile gaming titles would grow 20 per cent year-on-year to $120 billion in 2021, largely driven by an increase in adoption of cross-platform functionalities across various devices.

Opera’s Mobile Store reached 105 million monthly visitors and 200,000 titles during the fourth quarter of 2013, making it the fifth-largest mobile app store globally, according to the company.

While app developers have a “high willingness” to use cross-platform app tools, this is accompanied by a “rather low awareness of the available solutions as well as a lack of knowledge about the possibilities of these tools”.

BlackBerry maker RIM and cross-platform tool maker Marmalade are offering developers a free Marmalade SDK licence to encourage the building of apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform.

Developer tool company Xamarin has secured US$12 million in Series A funding, which it plans to use to accelerate the adoption of technology

App store analytics firm Distimo has launched a cross-platform service that provides developers with an insight into the distribution and sales of their apps

Cross platform app tools provider Marmalade has added support for HTML5 and Adobe’s PhoneGap framework to its latest SDK release. Marmalade 6.