Google Tech Culture Google says apps can no longer sell weed natively Devs can still implement external shopping cart though By Cal Jeffrey, May 30, 2019, 3:16 PM 8 comments
Google Mobile Google is tweaking the Play Store's app rating system to favor recent reviews Among many other happenings at Google's IO 2019 developer conference By Humza Aamir, May 9, 2019, 7:41 AM
Security Mobile Investigation results in banning of six fraudulent (yet popular) Android apps from the Play Store They were faking ad clicks and mistreating user data By Isaiah Mayersen, April 21, 2019, 10:27 AM 19 comments
Industry Google Google is now helping European Android users choose alternative browsers and search engines To comply with an EU ruling By Rob Thubron, April 19, 2019, 5:20 AM
Google Mobile Google adds Play Store budgeting feature to keep track of your app purchases It won't prevent you from buying apps, though By Rob Thubron, April 17, 2019, 9:27 AM
Tech Culture Software Google refuses to remove controversial 'woman tracking' app in Saudi Arabia, Apple has yet to respond The Absher app allows male 'guardians' to control women's travel By James Miller, March 3, 2019, 1:16 PM 19 comments
Google Security Crypto-stealing app discovered on Google Play store It's now been removed, thankfully By Rob Thubron, February 11, 2019, 7:02 AM
Mobile Google removes 29 malicious photo apps from Android's Play Store But not before they were downloaded millions of times By Rob Thubron, February 4, 2019, 9:36 AM
Software Google Google provides timeline for Play Store's 64-bit transition A 64-bit future is inevitable By Shawn Knight, January 16, 2019, 5:52 PM
Apple Google App Store saw 164 developers make first million in 2018 Google Play only had 88 new millionaires, but saw a 20-percent increase over last year By Cal Jeffrey, December 21, 2018, 4:34 PM
Google Mobile Google Play 'Best of 2018' award winners revealed including PUBG Mobile, Black Panther and more Reflecting on the top apps, games and entertainment releases of 2018 By Shawn Knight, December 3, 2018, 12:03 PM
Google Mobile Over 500,000 Google Play Store users installed malware-ridden apps from a single creator The apps masqueraded as various Car Simulator games By Cohen Coberly, November 21, 2018, 3:17 PM
Mobile Software Google's Play Store may soon receive a 'Play Pass' subscription option A better value option for power users By Isaiah Mayersen, October 28, 2018, 9:47 AM
Google Google Play Movies could soon offer free 4K upgrades Is Google getting ready to do an Apple? By Rob Thubron, October 15, 2018, 6:59 AM
Security Gaming Epic Games blasts Google for disclosing Fortnite Android exploit early The vulnerability has now been patched By Rob Thubron, August 26, 2018, 11:29 AM 7 comments
Gaming Microtransactions big win: Fallout Shelter still raking in the bottle caps 100 million by year's end, says analyst By Paul Taylor, August 9, 2018, 5:18 PM
Mobile Google Google just removed over 100 apps infected with Windows malware Most of them contained a keylogger By Rob Thubron, August 7, 2018, 5:27 AM
Google Mobile Google's updated policy sees cryptomining apps banned from the Play Store Other types of application have also been restricted By Rob Thubron, July 27, 2018, 7:12 AM
Security North Korea-linked hackers go after defectors using malware-loaded apps in Play Store Not the Lazarus Group, surprisingly By Rob Thubron, May 20, 2018, 11:05 AM
Google Mobile Study discovers thousands of Google Play apps that are improperly tracking children Potentially violating the COPPA law By Rob Thubron, April 16, 2018, 11:55 AM 14 comments
Mobile Apple Apple's war on bad applications saw its App Store shrink for first time last year While Google Play grew 30 percent By Rob Thubron, April 5, 2018, 10:16 AM
Mobile Security New strain of malware found hidden in Google Play store Malicious apps were downloaded 500,000 times before being removed By Cal Jeffrey, March 26, 2018, 7:07 PM
Gaming Mobile Google Play Instant Apps lets you try games without downloading them Updates to the Play Store on all platforms By Greg Synek, March 20, 2018, 9:11 AM
Google Security Google removed 700,000 bad apps from the Play Store last year New machine learning models and techniques put to good use By Shawn Knight, January 30, 2018, 4:55 PM
Mobile Google Hundreds of Android and iOS apps use your microphone to monitor your TV viewing habits Legal, but creepy By Rob Thubron, January 3, 2018, 6:15 AM 7 comments