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Facebook’s flirtations with the world of social mobile web stepped up a gear this week with the launch of its own app store, offering scant money making opportunity for the soon-to-be-public social networking behemoth, but perhaps a pathway to future riches.

The American platformer Snappii, which specialises in rapid mobile apps development, has announced increased support of Android devices.

In August of last year, Apple signaled that they would be responding to privacy concerns by deprecating access to the unique device identifier (UDID) functionality in iOS. Deprecation is a way of making certain features obsolete in future versions of a platform, while providing a transitional period. This week several sources have reported that at...

Apple’s new App Store ‘Catalog’ category, introduced last week, allows retailers to make their online catalogues available to iPhone users through their mobiles, but will retailers be happy to play by Apple's rules?

Amazon Appstore celebrates its 1st birthday by announcing it has hit 31,000 apps since its launch in March last year.

Since the move to Google Play, Google has been culling low-quality apps from their store. Since Google Play is the number one avenue for app discovery, having your app booted from there can be a real setback in your app career.

Not only is Apple’s App Store a bigger payday for developers than the Android Market, now a Distimo study is saying Amazon’s Appstore also earns devs a bigger haul

Microsoft has announced it plans to shut down its Windows Mobile app store, in order to concentrate on its Windows Phone Marketplace.