{"id":35996,"date":"2013-04-17T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=35996"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:30:11","slug":"amazon-appstore-coming-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/35996\/amazon-appstore-coming-to-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Appstore coming to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has announced that South Africa will be one of the nearly 200 supported countries for its Android Appstore when it launches internationally for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Previously the online retail giant had expanded the Amazon Appstore into the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note that Amazon does not sell its Kindle Fire tablet into these new markets yet, however.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amazon, its Appstore will be made available \u201cin the coming months\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Registered developers who want international distribution will have their apps automatically made available for download, unless they designate otherwise, Amazon said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Amazon<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon goes social with books\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/34588\/amazon-goes-social-with-books\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon goes social with books<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon vs merchants conflict brews\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/33815\/amazon-vs-merchants-conflict-brews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon vs merchants conflict brews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon domain names challenged\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/33327\/amazon-domain-names-challenged\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon domain names challenged<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazon climbs on Kindle optimism\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/31733\/amazon-climbs-on-kindle-optimism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon climbs on Kindle optimism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is bringing its Android Appstore to the South African market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,657,5626],"class_list":["post-35996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-appstore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35999,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35996\/revisions\/35999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}