Amazon announced this week that it's shutting down its Android app store. The Amazon Appstore has been available on Android devices since 2011, providing a relatively easy-to-access alternative to the default Google Play Store.
Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app platforms Thursday night. The clock on the reprieve granted by Donald Trump for the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform continues to tick.
TikTok has reappeared on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store following its banning – but the platform might not stick around for too long
TikTok has been absent from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store since January. Now, it’s back. Here’s all you need to know.
Google has gained permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly to customers through its iOS app, Google Play Books. While iOS apps today can
Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be
Google Play said it restored TikTok to the US app store on Thursday, following promises by President Donald Trump to save the app and an executive action delaying the enactment of a ban on the wildly popular social media platform.
Google has brought TiKTok back to its App Store, Axios has confirmed, but the company says it will only keep the app available for 75 days, the length of President Trump's extension of the ban on the app,
Amazon is discontinuing its Appstore for Android devices in August 2025. Fire TV and Fire Tablet users remain unaffected, though.
The Amazon Appstore made waves when it launched in 2011, offering an alternative to what at the time was known as the Android Market. Amazon even scored some early exclusives and gave away a plethora of premium content and Coins to anyone willing to do the legwork of installing the storefront on their Android phone.
The law requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the U.S. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives decided to shut down the app entirely.
Effective August 20, 2025, the Amazon app store will no longer be available on Android devices. This follows the previously announced closure of the Amazon app store for Windows. Developers can no longer submit new apps to the Amazon app store for Android, though they can continue to push updates to existing apps until August 20, 2025.