They are around developing mobile apps and solutions for about a decade already. We have talked to Saša Škevin of the Croatian company InstantCom about their projects from Boulder Dash to the Croatian Music Channel Chat - and what changes in the dev world they would cherish.

App development is quite a booming and 'cool' business in Bulgaria. Symbian is huge but dying, iOS is crowded. The app focus will shift from marketing to business & entertainment. These are some of the insights Petar Svarc of Bulgarian app development company Melon Mobile shared with us. We've also learned what Bulgarian soccer star Berbatov had to do with their flagship app.

Successful software companies have to be founded by teenagers; at least that is what history teaches us. Tomislav Car, founder of Croatian app development company Infinum, stuck to that rule, when he created the company over 6 years ago. Creating Apps talked to him about the early days, their open source library ToApp, what he thinks about computer studies and why bada apps have a great advantage over iOS or Android.

WP7 is going to be one of the top players in the platform struggle. Croatia could use some official mobile development courses. That's two of the key messages the founders of Croatian development company Five Minutes pointed out when talking to Creating Apps. We have also asked them about their new flagship product, the mobile app builder ShoutEm – and what their company name is all about.

Minsk is the node for hundreds of developers working for the IT company Itransition. The company is headquartered and incorporated in the US, it has offices in Estonia, the Netherlands, Russia and the UK. However, the swirling core, the development centre, is situated in Belarus. This is where, according to their own numbers, the company coordinates over 650 IT professionals, about 30 of them working for the mobile development team. Creating Apps has asked Itransition about their view on the situation of mobile development in the country, the job opportunities for new developers and future trends in app technologies.

Ever thought that public transport may be the fastest way to get ahead? Well, the developers of TransPot thought so. The public transport application for Minsk (Belarus) we have reported about earlier, apparently was pretty fast after all for Dmitry Pogrebitsky. It gave him second place in the first Belarusian Android App Challenge and quite some publicity.

Never stand in front of a closed shop again – that's the simple thought that led to the creation of OdpiralniČasi (OpenHours) in Slovenia. With the yellow-pages-like app being highly popular in the country, producer Strelovod has expanded to Denmark and is now targeting further markets, including Austria.