Marketplace

Amazon Is Poised to Dip Its Giant Toes Into NFTs

Reports indicate that the marketplace could be called "Amazon NFT Marketplace" or “Amazon Digital Marketplace.”

Commerce Kevin Hurler Mar 7

Meta Accused of Breaching Antitrust Policies Connected to Facebook Marketplace

European regulators say that Facebook's online shopping section is "distorting competition" with other web-based classified ads.

Social Media Nikki Main Dec 19

Ford E-Scooter Company Spin Is Leaving ‘Free-for-All’ Markets and Laying Off 25% of Staff

It's restructuring to accelerate its "path to profitability" and pulling out of select U.S. markets, Germany, Spain, and Portugal.

Tech News Jody Serrano Jan 7

Facebook Will No Longer Let You Monsters Sell Protected Amazon Land on Marketplace

The company rolled out a new policy for Marketplace on Friday in a bid to protect "ecological conservation areas" from being sold for shady purposes.

Conservation Shoshana Wodinsky Oct 8

Labor Unions Want the FTC to Block Amazon’s Acquisition of MGM

The Strategic Organizing Center—which represents over four million members—has concerns about Amazon's attempts to further consolidate its power.

Tech News Brianna Provenzano Aug 11

Report: Amazon Is Launching a Service To Help You Find a Babysitter

Reuters reports that later this year Amazon will start testing a marketplace for services, where users can find and hire everything from babysitters to handymen. It will be testing the service in limited areas to gauge demand and figure out logistics before moving forward with a broader launch. According to the report, Amazon has been…

Commerce Mario Aguilar Jun 10

BlackBerry Already Running Android Apps?

ShopSavvy, creator of the fantastic barcode reader/shopping assistant app, noticed something, well, peculiar in their logs. It shows that people in Waterloo, Ontario (where RIM is based) using the Android ShopSavvy app on Blackberry phones. The devices tracked are: • BlackBerry 8300 ran ShopSavvy on January 31, 2011 • BlackBerry 8600 ran ShopSavvy on January…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 24

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet May Run Android Apps?

Bloomberg just sourced three people that said RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook will be able to have access to the Android Marketplace, which in turn means it will run Android apps. It’s not a new idea, having surfaced as a rumor back in September 2010, but it’s still a weird one. The latest report seems confident, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 10

WP7 App Marketplace Now Has 5,000 Apps—Same as Palm

Windows Phone 7 now has just over 5,000 titles (5,149 to be exact) in their 2 month old marketplace. That’s the same number as Palm’s 1.5 year old webOS store. The number of apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace quickly jumped to the 5k mark from 3,000 at the end of November and 4,000…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Dec 30

10 Ways to Fix Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 could be amazing. It’s not, yet. Right now, it’s a good start. This is what’s broken, and what Microsoft has to do to make it truly awesome. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-review-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-have-o-5668738 1. Multitasking for third-party apps—or at least fix the damn resume time Windows Phone 7 doesn’t have multitasking for third-party apps, even though every…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 27

Zune Marketplace Now All MP3 Across PC, Xbox and Windows Phone

Zune’s been going in this direction for a while, but Microsoft has finally gone all MP3 with their Zune Marketplace music. All 11 million tracks in the US, and 8 million tracks in UK, France Italy, Spain and Germany. Yes, Europe! In addition to not having any more WMA files in the marketplace (save for…

Tech News Jason Chen Sep 20

Windows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start

“What’s this?” a girl at a party asked, as I handed her my phone. She touched a square, and everything flipped away. “It’s Microsoft’s brand new phone. Kind of like a fresh start,” I explained. “Oh. It’s… neat.” That’s the most apt way to describe Windows Phone 7, really. It’s a fresh start, and it’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 19

This Is What Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace Will Look Like

We spoke at great length about how Microsoft will be offering apps on the Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace, but until now hadn’t seen exactly what it’d look like. Pocket Now has grabbed the goods, which you can see underneath. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-apps-what-we-know-what-we-dont-5472235 The opening screen, below, has the different options for the Marketplace: apps, games, music…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 16

Motorola’s Got Their Own Android Shop Cookin’

Well, lookee’ here. Motorola’s been building their own Android Marketplace, and someone found it out. It’s been taken down since, but here’s what Android and Me found before Moto pulled the plug. The biggest addition is that it’s web based. That’s right, Android users. A store that’s easily browsable on the desktop. Not to mention…

Tech News Chris Jacob Dec 12

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Apple Said to Be Bullying, Giving Wedgies to Flash Memory Makers…Legendary German Camera-Maker Launches Really Boring Digital Cameras…ClearPlay’s Upscaling 1080p DVD Player Allows High-Definition Censorship…Survey of Android App Developers Reveals Unhappiness With Sales… Apple Said to Be Bullying, Giving Wedgies to Flash Memory Makers Anyone surprised that Apple’s been accused of practicing some, shall we…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 1

Android Developer Challenge 2 Winners: Grow, Marketplace, Grow

Google’s just announced the winners of the second Android Developer Challenge, a homegrown app competition that’s produced some must-haves for seasoned Android owners and nervous new Droid users alike. https://gizmodo.com/android-developer-challenge-2-kicks-off-2m-up-for-gra-5345728 The overall winners: SweetDreams, which allows you to set specific nighttime settings (deflect incoming calls, disable Wi-Fi and GPS to save battery) automatically; What the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Nov 30

Windows Mobile App Marketplace Now Open to All 6.x Phones

However you feel about Windows Mobile 6.5, chances are you don’t have it, so you (probably) haven’t been able to try out the new Marketplace for Mobile. Starting today—earlier than promised!—anyone with a 6.x handset can access it. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-install-windows-marketplace-for-mobile-on-winmo-5378168 Microsoft’s take on an app store got off to a timid start, so the accompanying news…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 16

Windows Mobile Marketplace App Copy Protection Is a Joke

According to a developer on XDA, the already slack copy protection for Windows Marketplace is a complete joke—with a “hunch” and five minutes, he was able to get around it, creating unlimited copies of paid apps. He’s not revealing the method for ethical reasons, but anybody wanna fill us in on how these shenanigans work,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 9

Android Marketplace Now Has 5,000 Apps, Direct-to-Bill for Apps Coming

At the launch of the myTouch 3G, Google says that there are now 5,000 apps in the Android Marketplace. There’s going to be a special T-Mobile “app pack” soon that’ll tie together some T-Mobile apps along with some third-party ones that they like. Also, for T-Mobile customers, there’s going to be a direct-to-bill payment option…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 8

Windows Mobile’s App Sharing Feature Isn’t Really Sharing At All

Remember how the Windows Mobile App Marketplace was going to let you share apps with up to five phones at no additional cost? Well, Microsoft has a very liberal definition of the word “sharing.” Turns out it’s just a feature to let you transfer apps to a new phone when you replace your last. That’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 23

Marketplace

Amazon Is Poised to Dip Its Giant Toes Into NFTs

Meta Accused of Breaching Antitrust Policies Connected to Facebook Marketplace

Ford E-Scooter Company Spin Is Leaving ‘Free-for-All’ Markets and Laying Off 25% of Staff

Facebook Will No Longer Let You Monsters Sell Protected Amazon Land on Marketplace

Labor Unions Want the FTC to Block Amazon’s Acquisition of MGM

Report: Amazon Is Launching a Service To Help You Find a Babysitter

BlackBerry Already Running Android Apps?

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet May Run Android Apps?

WP7 App Marketplace Now Has 5,000 Apps—Same as Palm

10 Ways to Fix Windows Phone

Zune Marketplace Now All MP3 Across PC, Xbox and Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start

This Is What Windows Phone 7 Series Marketplace Will Look Like

Motorola’s Got Their Own Android Shop Cookin’

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Android Developer Challenge 2 Winners: Grow, Marketplace, Grow

Windows Mobile App Marketplace Now Open to All 6.x Phones

Windows Mobile Marketplace App Copy Protection Is a Joke

Android Marketplace Now Has 5,000 Apps, Direct-to-Bill for Apps Coming

Windows Mobile’s App Sharing Feature Isn’t Really Sharing At All

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