PocketGear Aquires Handango

Before the iTunes App Store, the Android Market, or the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, there were mobile application stores on the Internet. Today PocketGear, which is one of the oldest of the mobile application stores, announced it is aquiring another long-time mobile application store, Handango. In a highly competitive market, PocketGear differentiates itself from Apple, Google, and Microsoft’s stores by selling applications for multiple mobile platforms. With the aquisition, PocketGear’s application catalog grows to 140,000 paid and free applications.