Topic: google play
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Gemini AI Sidekick Comes to Google Play Games
The Google Play Store is undergoing a major redesign to boost personalization and cross-platform integration, with a significant upgrade to its gaming hub that adds social features and rewards systems. Gamer profiles are now more dynamic and public, allowing users to display activity, interact wi...
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Google Play Gets a Personal Touch
Google Play is introducing a centralized "You tab" to serve as a personal hub, consolidating user stats, rewards, subscriptions, and personalized content recommendations in one place. The You tab offers curated content like audiobook and game suggestions, with future updates enabling quick resump...
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Google Play Games Expands PC Library with Cross-Buy
Google is expanding its Play Games platform on Windows to make the PC a core part of its ecosystem, bringing more premium games and better cross-platform features for users and developers. A key update is a dedicated Windows tab in the Play Store for browsing and wishlisting PC games, with develo...
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Google Play's New Fee: $2–4 Per App Install
Google is introducing new fees for Android developers who direct users to download apps outside the Play Store, including substantial per-install charges and commissions on in-app purchases. The proposed fee structure is facing legal scrutiny and opposition from Epic Games, with a court evaluatin...
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YouTube & Google Play Movies Removed from Movies Anywhere
Movies Anywhere has removed content purchased through Google Play or YouTube from its service as of October 31st, ending their integration and syncing capabilities. Previously linked movies from Google accounts remain accessible in Movies Anywhere, but new purchases on Google Play or YouTube will...
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Supreme Court Lets Epic's Antitrust Case Against Google Proceed
The US Supreme Court declined to intervene, allowing a lower court's injunction to stand, which requires Google to make significant changes to its Google Play Store policies by a court-imposed deadline. Google must now allow developers to use alternative payment systems, inform users about paymen...
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Google Play Games Will Now Share Your Gaming Activity
Google Play Games is updating to allow users to showcase achievements, track progress, and build communities through their profiles for a more unified gaming experience. The update will roll out starting September 23rd in most regions and October 1st in the EU and UK, with profiles appearing in t...
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Disney-YouTube Feud Blocks Digital Movie Syncing
The contract dispute between Disney and YouTube TV has led to Movies Anywhere removing Google Play and YouTube from its connected platforms, preventing new movie purchases from syncing across services. Existing linked libraries remain accessible for now, but new purchases through Google platforms...
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Google Rejoins Movies Anywhere
Google has rejoined Movies Anywhere, allowing users to sync their movie purchases from Google Play and YouTube back into their unified digital collection. Users can now reconnect their Google account to the service, a quick process that restores their purchased titles alongside movies from other ...
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Google Play Store to warn about battery-draining Android apps
Google Play Store will flag Android apps that drain batteries through excessive background activity, potentially reducing their visibility in search and recommendations. Developers must update their apps by March 1, 2026, to comply with new metrics targeting "excessive partial wake locks," which ...
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42 Million Downloads: Malicious Android Apps Found on Google Play
Malicious Android applications on Google Play accumulated over 42 million downloads, with spyware and banking trojans posing severe risks as criminals shift to social engineering tactics targeting mobile payment systems. Adware now dominates Android threats at 69% of detections, while spyware saw...
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Google Forced to Change Play Store After Epic Antitrust Loss
Google has been compelled to change its Play Store policies in the U.S. due to an antitrust lawsuit loss to Epic Games, allowing developers to direct users to external payment systems and websites. The court found Google guilty of suppressing competition among Android app stores, a decision uphel...
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Google's Epic Deadline: October 29th
The deadline for Google to implement court-ordered changes to its Google Play Store policies has been extended to October 29, 2025, following a joint request approved by the judge. The injunction requires Google to open its app ecosystem, stop mandating its billing system, and allow developers to...
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42 Million Downloads: Google Apps Infected With Malware
Android malware surged by 67% in the past year, with 239 malicious apps downloaded 42 million times from the Google Play Store. The manufacturing and energy sectors were primary targets, with energy attacks rising 387%, and India led in malicious mobile traffic at 26%. IoT threats were dominated ...
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Google's 24-Hour Sideloading Process for Unverified Apps
Google is implementing new Android security measures for 2026, focusing on restricting app sideloading by introducing a mandatory developer verification program with a $25 fee and identity checks. To address concerns from developers and power users, Google will offer an "advanced flow" hidden in ...
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Keenadu Backdoor Infects Android Firmware and Google Play Apps
A sophisticated Android malware named Keenadu, deeply embedded in device firmware, grants attackers full control to compromise all apps and steal sensitive user data, including banking credentials and private browsing activity. The malware spreads through multiple channels, including compromised ...
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Pixel 8 Gets Animated GIFs with Pixel Studio
Google is expanding its Pixel Studio app to the Pixel 8 series, introducing an "Animate image" feature that allows users to create and customize GIFs from still photos. The functionality is not yet active for Pixel 8 users, and the rollout is pending, but it will also include a new integrated scr...
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Play Games on Google Play with Gemini AI
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant directly into mobile games via an in-game overlay, allowing players to get real-time, voice-activated hints without pausing gameplay. The AI can analyze on-screen action to provide tailored advice, and the overlay will also centralize player profiles,...
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Google to Pay $135M for Android Data Collection
Google has agreed to a $135 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging it collected Android users' cellular data without proper consent, even when apps were inactive or location services were off. The settlement mandates Google to simplify user controls over data transfers, obt...
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OpenAI's Sora App Now Available on Android
OpenAI has launched the Sora video generation app for Android, making it available in key markets like the U.S., Japan, and Korea through the Google Play Store. A new "character cameos" feature introduces reusable digital avatars that users can integrate into their video projects for enhanced cre...
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