Security researchers have warned that malicious apps with hundreds of millions of installs have been detected in the Google Play Store. Here’s what you need to know.

The tech giant tries to stave off a judge's efforts to force it to open its Play app store to wider competition.

Google Play Store is testing a fixed app header with an easy to reach Install button, making it easy to install apps even with long listings.

The “dangerous” permissions highlighted by that report include location tracking, access to cameras, contacts and the phone itself. Google’s enhanced protection doesn’t clamp down as widely as that, but focuses on financial exploits that require user credentials and one-time passcodes.

Small developers may be winners after a judge's ruling in the long legal battle between Epic Games and Google. The tech giant must allow consumers more choices on its app store.

Google's push for big screens will include a (hopefully dramatic) Play Store redesign. The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn't lose it. Estimates have Google Play cutting 869,000 apps and Apple removing 650,000.

It's taken a while, but Microsoft has announced that you can finally play and buy Xbox games via the Android app

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company’s internet empire.

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