Amazon recently announced that it is going to open its own store of applications in 200 new countries. One of them will be Russia. In connection with this announcement, we talked about the fate of Amazon with Opera.

Amazon is going to launch a virtual currency on the Kindle Fire line of devices this May, for which it will be possible to purchase applications and content inside them in the Amazon Appstore.

At the end of last week, Amazon announced that the number of downloads from its store has increased by 500% over the past year. The store would never have achieved these impressive growth rates without the release of its own budget devices.

Amazon continues its global expansion. Yesterday she launched the Japanese version of her app store. Apparently, it’s not long to wait for the announcement of the Kindle Fire in this market.   

According to the results of the third quarter, the iPad accounts for only 55% of global tablet shipments. Android tablets are eating away an increasing share of the market, analysts at ABI Research found out.

Microsoft and Amazon are planning to launch smartphones under their own brands by mid-2013, according to the DigiTimes resource.

Recently, Amazon announced the release of new plugins for Unity, which will allow developers to easily integrate the “Amazon” In-App Purchasing and GameCircle APIs into their games on this engine.

Earlier than the announced deadline (November 20), Amazon began shipping the Kindle Fire HD tablet with an 8.9-inch screen.

The company’s internal studio yesterday released Air Patriots, Amazon’s first mobile project developed immediately for Kindle, Android and iOS. 

The largest online retailer Amazon.com Inc. reported on the financial results of the third quarter.  For the first time in the last 4 years, the company suffered losses. However, these indicators do not run counter to Amazon’s development strategies.

According to Reuters, the Amazon online store is in talks with Texas Instruments about buying its division specializing in the production of processors for mobile devices.

Amazon sells devices at cost to promote its own ecosystem.

A little more than a month has passed since the launch of the store in Europe, and Amazon is already announcing its intentions to open its own digital store in the land of the rising sun. 

According to Digitimes Research, the total shipments of 7 and 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets by the end of 2012 will amount to 5 million.

Amazon has allowed the purchase of physical goods from its app store.

Last week, Amazon introduced a whole line of Kindle Fire HD devices. The stated “pleasant” prices for the company’s devices are compensated by built-in advertising.  

The week of announcements continues. This time, Apple’s real competitor in the American tablet market, Amazon, told about his new devices. As expected, he demonstrated as many as two next-generation Kindle Fire devices: one large and one slightly smaller. 

According to Amazon, the revenue from IAP (In-App Purchases) in its Amazon Appstore is more than twice the average earnings from premium applications.

Amazon’s Android app store has become available for mobile users in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.