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Microsoft Windows Phone Store Rebranded From Marketplace
Microsoft continues its branding shake up after renaming Windows Phone Marketplace to Windows Phone Store
Amazon Appstore Arrives In UK
Amazon's application marketplace for Android finally comes to European shores
Le Web 2012 (Video): Orange Develops Mobile Apps Through Libon
We share some lost content from this summer’s entrepreneur conference
Twitter API Changes Annoy Developers
Report directly to us or shut down, the community is told
Microsoft Suspends Publishing New Apps On Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft rushes to fix an issue with digital certificates used to sign apps
Facebook App Adverts Seek To Increase Mobile Revenue
Social network hopes to monetise its mobile user base
BlackBerry App World Reaches 3 Billion Downloads
Now more than 90,000 applications 'up for sale' on mobile app store
Apple Apps Boast Better Retention Than Android
New figures show that apps running on the iPhone and iPad are used much more frequently than on Android devices
Updated Tax Calculator Crashes Hours After Launch
App crashes as 400,000 people wanted to know how the government spends their tax
Tax App To Show How Government Spends Your Money
Government launches an app for seeing how much tax people pay and where the government spends it
Facebook Instagram Acquisition May Not Be So Instant
Facebook's Instagram acquisition may not close before the end of the second quarter as Zuckerburg had hoped
Facebook To Launch App Center
Social network explains how to get your app displayed prominently
Nokia Lumia Gets Exclusive App Bundle
Nokia hopes to make its app ecosystem more tempting to customers with exclusive apps from top developers
Google Play Surpasses 15bn App Downloads
Google's app store delivers a billion a month, but still lags Apple
Trend: 700,000 Bad Android Apps Downloaded From Google Play
Google's mobile OS is coming under attack again, as users download a massive number of dirty apps
SwiftKey Android Keyboard Offers Better Typing Experience
The popular Android app Swiftkey now offers a better typing experience thanks to its predictive capabilities
Apple Pulls ‘Stalker App’ From App Store
Girls Around Me allowed users to track women on location-based services
Lenovo Targets Enterprises With Mobile App Store Launch
Lenovo has launched an app store geared towards enterprises and corporate users, and not consumers
Nokia And Microsoft To Invest £15 Million Into Windows Phone Apps
AppCampus in Finland will become a prime destination for Windows Phone developers
Prototype Approved App Marketplace Launched By US Army
The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad revolution
Apple and Facebook in US App Privacy Probe
US Congressmen ask for info on what data social app makers are taking
Google Pays Angry Android App Developers
Google payments to Android developers were delayed -angry programmers say the problem is not fixed
MIT Offers Android App Inventor Beta
MIT has made available a beta of its App Inventor tool that allows for the easy creation of Android apps
iOS Apps Could Allow Developers Access To Users’ Photos
Photo libraries and associated geo-locational data exposed by 'location access' agreement
MWC 2012: Mozilla Marketplace Is Open To Developers
Mozilla has announced its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer apps submissions for sale later this year
MWC 2012: GSMA To Counter Smartphone App Sprawl With Joyn
The GSMA is countering the duplication of smartphone apps by offering standardised, consolidated 'rich communications' instead
Apple Threatens To Pull British Siri Rival From App Store
Apple is said to be planning to pull the voice assistant Evi app from its App Store, because it is 'confusingly similar' to Siri
Apple Acquires App Search Engine Chomp
Apple buys Chomp for a reported £31.5 million - leading to rumours of an app store redesign
Android Apps Cost 2.5 Times More Than iPhone Apps
Canalys survey reveals disparities in the price of paid-for content between the two markets