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Motorola is launching an own application store for Android phones T-Mobile US announced operator billing for the Android Market Microsoft launched Bing in the Apple App Store, and is now among the 100 highest ranked apps worldwide

BlackBerry App World now has support for Themes, with now over 150 content items available. The Orange Application Shop was launched this week during the Le Web conference in Paris. Samsung Bada applications are coming in the first half of 2010 and will very likely be distributed via the Samsung Application Store. The Nokia Ovi [...]

A small recap of this week’s apps store news: Apple promoted a set of applications in the App Store during Black Friday. This promotion greatly influenced rankings and downloads of the featured applications. Samsung is holding a launch event in London next week December 8, to kick-off Samsung Bada. Handster, an independent app store for [...]

The first Dell Smartphone, was launched in China with China Mobile. The China Mobile Market now also contains applications for the Ophone platform, which is similar to Android, but custom made for China Mobile. The AppJam event in London was held. Find our presentation wrapup and slides with a selection of new stats from all [...]

Samsung Bada applications will be distributed via Samsung’s Application Store. Windows Marketplace is now also available for older Windows Mobile phones. The Apple App Store is now officially available in China for three weeks, we made an overview of the most popular content. Distimo will present at next week’s AppJam event in London on Monday [...]

BlackBerry App World is now also available in India. The Distimo Report October 2009 was released, focussing on In-App Purchasing and Cross-Store Developers. Windows Marketplace will also support older Windows Mobile phones at the end of this month and a Web Store front was launched. BlackBerry App World gets In-App Purchasing, carrier billing and more [...]

Vodafone Egypt Ships Android Phones With SlideME App Store instead of Android Market. Sony Ericsson Announces Its First Android Device. GetJar Hits 55 Million Monthly Downloads. Independent App Store AndAppStore Is Targeting Google Unapproved Android Devices. Adult Content Is On Its Way To The Vodafone 360 Shop.

The NASA app for the iPhone entered the top charts worldwide. The Barnes & Noble eReader runs on Android. Will it support Android applications and the Android Market? Google Wave will get an app store. TomTom made $4.8M revenue in Q3 2009 with its iPhone applications. Google announced free navigation for Android. The Vodafone 360 [...]

For developers, it is now possible to target applications per country and operator in the Android Market. The LG Application Store was launched three months ago, it now contains 1,295 applications, of which over 90% paid content. Acer is launching its first Android phone this year, with the new 1.6 version of the Android OS. [...]