Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a
Apple today is again taking to the press to fight back against claims of anti-competitive practices on its App Store. Last month, the company detailed the results of a commissioned study that showed h
Amazon's Kindle app isn't the only mobile app from the company getting a makeover today. Amazon has also now quietly introduced a new version of its Appstore app for Fire TV, Fire tablets and Android
Amazon announced it will be shutting down its "Underground Actually Free" program, which offers customers free versions of Android apps that would typically cost money, including those that relied on
Amazon will refund millions of unauthorized in-app purchases kids made on mobile devices, having now dropped its appeal of last year’s ruling by a federal judge who sided with the Federal Trad
Amazon is clearly doubling down on its Alexa-powered connected speaker Echo, and the Alexa ecosystem as a whole – and not just because it’s now shelling out the big bucks to advertise the
Amazon announced this morning the launch of a new advertising platform for mobile app developers who distribute their Android apps by way of Amazon’s Appstore or even Google Play. Called “
Ahead of a press conference this week where Amazon is expected to introduce its first-ever Amazon smartphone, the company is making a point to call out how much its mobile app ecosystem has grown in r
Smartwatch maker Pebble has finally released its full version 2.0 app for Android devices, following a public beta originally brought the software and the Pebble Appstore to smartphones using Google&#
Pebble started shipping its new Pebble Steel hardware last week, but until today, the version of the companion app available to the general public didn’t contain any of the version 2.0 goodness
Amazon is announcing a change to its Appstore today, which will now allow developers building HTML5 (web-based) applications to price those apps to sell, just the same as their natively coded counterp
Pebble is finally getting around to creating an official app marketplace for software devs build for its platform. The Pebble Appstore, as it will be known, is going to debut sometime early next year
Continuing to grow its suite of services aimed at mobile app developers, Amazon today announced App Engagement Reports, free app usage reports that are now a part of the company's <a target="_blank" h
No, we still don't have any word from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon</a> on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. To
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon</a> has yet to turn on any services on the back of a <a target="_blank" href="http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/08/419-amazon-may-be-eyeing-up-carr
Apple and Amazon are fighting over made up words, as you may well be aware. Apple takes issue with Amazon's use of "Appstore," the name for the online retailer's marketplace of Android software, which
And Amazon’s pre-announcement <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/30/amazon-wants-everyone-to-know-the-kindle-fire-is-sold-out/">PR onslaught</a> continues. While the recent <a href="https://tec
Good news for those of you who live outside the U.S. and have been waiting for Amazon to take more of its mobile products outside its home market. Amazon today <a target="_blank" href="http://phx.corp
Amazon's self-run Appstore has always been a great place to pick up great Android apps on the cheap, but it came with one caveat: ever since its launch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/22/amazo
Today, third-party mobile application store <a href="http://www.getjar.com/">GetJar</a> is publicly launching its <a href="http://www.getjar.com/gold">GetJar Gold</a> service, which has been in beta t
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