• Motorola is launching an own application store for Android phones
• T-Mobile US announced operator billing for the Android Market
• Microsoft launched Bing in the Apple App Store, and is now among the 100 highest ranked apps worldwide

• BlackBerry App World now has support for Themes, with now over 150 content items available.
• The Orange Application Shop was launched this week during the Le Web conference in Paris.
• Samsung Bada applications are coming in the first half of 2010 and will very likely be distributed via the Samsung Application Store.
• The Nokia Ovi Store is reaching close to 1 million downloads per day.

A small recap of this week’s apps store news:

• Apple promoted a set of applications in the App Store during Black Friday. This promotion greatly influenced rankings and downloads of the featured applications.
• Samsung is holding a launch event in London next week December 8, to kick-off Samsung Bada.
• Handster, an independent app store for Windows Mobile, Symbian, Java, Android and BlackBerry, is added to our mobile app store overview.
• BlackBerry App World now has Test Center, which enables developers to receive feedback on beta version of their applications.

• The first Dell Smartphone, was launched in China with China Mobile.
• The China Mobile Market now also contains applications for the Ophone platform, which is similar to Android, but custom made for China Mobile.
• The AppJam event in London was held. Find our presentation wrapup and slides with a selection of new stats from all major app stores here.

• Samsung Bada applications will be distributed via Samsung’s Application Store.
• Windows Marketplace is now also available for older Windows Mobile phones.
• The Apple App Store is now officially available in China for three weeks, we made an overview of the most popular content.
• Distimo will present at next week’s AppJam event in London on Monday November 23.
• Maemo applications for Nokia phones are coming to the Nokia Ovi Store.

• BlackBerry App World is now also available in India.
• The Distimo Report October 2009 was released, focussing on In-App Purchasing and Cross-Store Developers.
• Windows Marketplace will also support older Windows Mobile phones at the end of this month and a Web Store front was launched.
• BlackBerry App World gets In-App Purchasing, carrier billing and more types of content.

• Vodafone Egypt Ships Android Phones With SlideME App Store instead of Android Market.
• Sony Ericsson Announces Its First Android Device.
• GetJar Hits 55 Million Monthly Downloads.
• Independent App Store AndAppStore Is Targeting Google Unapproved Android Devices.
• Adult Content Is On Its Way To The Vodafone 360 Shop.

• The NASA app for the iPhone entered the top charts worldwide.
• The Barnes & Noble eReader runs on Android. Will it support Android applications and the Android Market?
• Google Wave will get an app store.
• TomTom made $4.8M revenue in Q3 2009 with its iPhone applications.
• Google announced free navigation for Android.
• The Vodafone 360 App Store has launched.
• The Apple App Store is available in China.

• For developers, it is now possible to target applications per country and operator in the Android Market.
• The LG Application Store was launched three months ago, it now contains 1,295 applications, of which over 90% paid content.
• Acer is launching its first Android phone this year, with the new 1.6 version of the Android OS. The manufacturer is also releasing an Android based netbook.
• The Brazilian operator TIM announced it will be launching an app store beginning next year, in cooperation with Qualcomm.
• In-app purchase is now also available for free applications in the Apple App Store, which offer huge potential for developers that want to up-sell their apps.