Market is an Android app developed by Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View 94043). Others apps created by Google LLC are: Google Home, Google Chat, Google Pay (Tez), Google Translate, Google Wallet, YouTube TV.

Market first became available on 30 Jan 2011. It is estimated that Market has been downloaded between 5000000 and 10000000 times from the Play Store.

Market 1.1.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to write to external storage.