Amazon’s Appstore for Android triples in size in one year, tops 240,000 apps

Ahead of the anticipated launch of a Kindle Fire smartphone, Amazon says its Appstore for Android is growing like gangbusters. On Monday, Amazon announced that over the past year the Appstore has tripled in size and now has more than 240,000 apps available for Android smartphone and tablet users in nearly 200 countries. Originally rolled out in