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IMDb launches Android app
Amazon.com has been taking its Kindle electronic book app to multiple devices. Now it's doing the same with its Internet Movie Database (IMDb) site.
IMDb is launching an app for Google Android devices, letting users get movies information, trailers and showtimes and shop for DVDs and Blu-ray discs. IMDb already has an app for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
IMDb has also created an "interactive" Twitter account @imdbbot that lets people tweet a question about a celebrity name or film and get an answer back.
Amazon acquired IMDb for an undisclosed price in 1998. It's become a well-established source of movie and TV info for the general public, and it also has a paid service for Hollywood types, with showbiz contacts, film production info, and movie and actor rankings.
The site has been steadily adding content in recent years, acquiring Box Office Mojo, a site that tracks movie grosses, and Without A Box, an indie film promotion site.
Given IMDb's ambitions to become a web video powerhouse, it will be interesting to see if it makes more full-length movies and TV shows available via the apps.
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