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Apple has sued Amazon over the term "App Store." Apple says it holds the trademark and claims that an Amazon Appstore will confuse customers who will wonder if it is part of Apple.

Google, its rivalry with Apple ever growing, has opened its own online digital content store -- Google One Pass.

Google is considering a plan to expand its Android newsstand -- and heat rivalry with Apple's iTunes -- by charging publishers a lower price to sell news to Android users than the 30% fee that Apple typically charges to sell apps on iTunes. Will that be enough to attract more news?

AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel want to protect themselves against the iPad and the power it brings Apple in the wireless marketplace. Case in point: Samsung Electronics will launch its new Galaxy Tab tablet soon and all three telecoms will market it.

Apple dropped all of Chinese-based iPhone developer, Molinker's apps, and banned the company after a ratings scandal was made public. Molinker was accused of masterminding fake five-star reviews of its products, likely by offering free apps for five-star reviews. Whatever the case, at least one of...

From zero to a billion in nine months: iTunes customers have now downloaded one billion applications from its App Store, Apple said Friday in a press release. How did we live without our Apple (AAPL) iPhone apps 10 months ago? At first naysayers said, Who needs 'em? Now it's, How many do we...