Years later, Verizon gets the hint. Its app store will shutter in March 2013. I've had Verizon for many a year, and I hated all of their VCast apps. I never used them and couldn't get rid of them. The ...

Underscoring the ways in which the smartphone app economy has supplanted the carrier-consumer relationship of old, Verizon announced to its users this week that it was closing Verizon Apps. The ...

Verizon Wireless is closing its Verizon Apps store, stating that “we’re evolving our strategy to further simplify today’s experience and meet the needs of tomorrow”. The store, which was opened in ...

Verizon has been accepting submissions for its forthcoming V CAST Android app store, which is rumored to be unveiled at the VCD Conference on September 21. The V CAST app store was originally said to ...

Verizon will launch its long-anticipated VCast App Store in the fourth quarter, promising to bring new mobile applications to market in less than 14 days. Developers will get 70 percent of the revenue ...

Verizon Wireless today threw its hat in the ring of online application stores by announcing it will open the V Cast Apps store in the fourth quarter of the year. The Verizon storefront will make it ...

Everyone who’s anyone in the wireless space wants in on the app store game. Handset-makers, carriers, third-party software vendors and others all want a hand in the action, a chance to bring in some ...

Verizon promises to change the way people watch TV through a new application storefront that will be open to third-party developers. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

Though US carrier Verizon's multimedia store V Cast stretches beyond apps to include TV and video content, the firm has announced it is to drop the brand in favour of a new marketplace, simply dubbed ...

Verizon Wireless has launched its own app marketplace -- dubbed V Cast Apps -- which some are speculating could compete directly against Google's Android app market. "Many users with Android phones on ...

Verizon subscribers who have been using the company’s Message+ texting app are now being forced to switch to an alternative, following the service’s discontinuation on Monday. The app is the latest ...