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Wednesday, November 4. 2009 at 11:20 AM EST Post a comment

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Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) has announced that its App Store now has more than 100,000 apps.

The App Store offered only 552 apps when it launched less than two years ago. Now it's dominating competing app stores from Windows Mobile, Google Android, and Palm.

"The App Store, now with over 100,000 applications available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world," Philip Schiller, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a press release. "The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating."

Apple also said downloads from the App Store are "well over 2 billion."

In other news:

MSN debuted its new home page last night with less clutter, fewer links, and not so much blue. The redesign -- amazingly, the first major upgrade to the page in TEN YEARS -- allows users to access Facebook and Twitter information and, of course, provides plenty of Bing. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is rolling out the redesign over time, but you can see it now here.

Canadian company Cookie Jar Entertainment has launched Jaroo.com, a sort of Hulu for kids, offering 500 free full episodes of 50 TV series, like Inspector Gadget and Adventures of Paddington. According to The Hollywood Reporter, each of the episodes, which are 22 minutes long, contains 90 seconds of unskippable commercials targeted toward kids ages 4 to 12.

Tags: Apple, Hulu, iPhone, iPod Touch, Microsoft, Site Launch, Video

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