The App Store has over 100,000 apps the company announced this week with the iPhone the leader of the pack for applications. The store has customers in 77 countries.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Balmer recently announced the opening of Microsoft's first dedicated store in Scottsdale, Arizona. The store will promote Microsoft devices and software including the X-Box computer game console

The British upscale department store Harrods, will begin selling gold bars and coins over the counter today at the Harrods Bank branch on the lower ground floor of the West London store.

Posing as a Walmart assistant store manager, a burglar entered a Walmart store in Orlando, Fla. and exited with more than $200,000 cash. Walmart officials say "it is the only crime of its kind" to happen at a Walmart store.

Apple has released some interesting statistics today for its iPhone App Store, showing that downloads of apps have passed the 2 billion mark, and that there are now more than 85,000 apps available.

Apple has made a somewhat unprecedented move and approved a music streaming application called "Spotify" into the iTunes app store.

Apple's iPhone proves that there is an application for everything, as the company offers an app that tracks H1N1 swine flu infections. The move just may save lives on college campuses.

Arriving shortly after the mysterious rejection of the Google Voice app for 'replicating features already included in the core iPhone experience,' Vonage is about to join Skype on the App Store with it's upcoming VoIP app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Facebook just launched their latest version of the Facebook for iPhone app, which now takes full use of the iPhone 3.0 OS and the many new features it brings to the table.

Digital Journal interviews Tav Shande, the creator of the iPhone app Vanity, following an opinion piece on the use of the app as a rating tool making the point that using it in this fashion is actually a tool for discrimination.

There's a new app out for IPhone and this one has taken facial recognition programming in a totally absurd direction for the sake of commerce by appealing to our vanity.

Spotify has announced it has submitted an app to Apple for the iPhone app store which will allow users to stream music from the service onto their iPhones.

Apple had approved an application for the iPhone that promotes school shootings, according to some tech experts. The "Zombie School" app was soon taken off the online store as public outrage hit the Web.

LG has just announced its own mobile application store in beta and says its not intended to be "a new or separate business model."

Facebook has today announced new privacy features, as well as posting an update on the new Facebook iPhone app, saying it is 98% complete.

When it comes to controversial content, the Apple store has shied away. That may be changing, however, as the store now allows for 17+ content.

Artist Jorge Colombo used a $4.99 app on his iPhone to create the cover for the June edition of the New Yorker magazine.

Nokia has commenced roll-out plans for its new Nokia App Store - Nokia's attempt at an application store similar to that of Apples.

Apple has dumped a $.99 game called “Baby Shaker” that allows the player to shake baby to death to quite its crying. It has also apologized for allowing this iPhone game onto the App Store.

Apple’s iTunes App Store sells its 1 Billionth application. The store has more than 25,000 free and paid applications and reached this total in less than 9 months.