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Things haven’t been looking great for Android users’ privacy recently. After Google purged 50 malicious apps from its Play store with upward of 25 million downloads a couple of years back, another 200 Android apps were found infected with malware in March, followed by July’s discovery of 1,000-plus Android apps harvesting data even after you …

Spotify has launched a lightweight version of its music streaming app so you don’t have to worry about hitting data limits as you stream. The 10 MB Spotify Lite app is designed for older devices and operating systems, and it’s coming to 36 countries. People with free and Premium Spotify accounts can download the app on any Android device that …

Apple’s top app publishers are making around 64% more in gross income than those on Google Play, according to mobile app analytics firm Sensor Tower. During the first quarter of 2019, the report said the top 100 App Store publishers made $83.8 million in average gross income, while Google Play’s top publishers saw around $51 million. People are continuing to …

We spend a good chunk of our time and money on mobile gaming, a new report says. In 2018, 74% of spending in app stores was driven by games, according to a Monday report from App Annie, which provides companies with mobile data and analytics. Additionally, 33% of all mobile downloads worldwide were games, and 10% of time spent on …

Google Play is working to make its app store more family friendly. Kanika Sachdeva, the store’s product manager, said it considered input from users and developers to fine-tune protections for kids and families on Google Play. In a blog post Wednesday, Sachdeva said the latest policy changes will strengthen existing efforts to make sure apps designed for kids contain appropriate content …

Huawei’s ambitions to unseat Samsung as the world’s largest phone brand by 2020 came crashing to the ground this week following a report that Google will pull support for Huawei’s Android phones. Sidelining its most enthusiastic rival could prove to be a windfall for Samsung — assuming the blacklist status lasts. The measures are already softening. On Monday, the US …

Owning a Huawei phone in the US became a lot less appealing over the weekend when it was revealed that Google will stop providing Huawei support for its Android phones. The decision wasn’t Google’s, but instead the company is complying with an executive order recently signed by President Donald Trump.  The Chinese company currently holds the second spot in global smartphone marketshare, but without …

Google has suspended business with Huawei that isn’t covered under open-source licensing, Reuters reported Sunday, following the Trump administration’s decision to effectively ban the Chinese company in the US. Huawei is losing Android operating system updates, a source close to the matter told Reuters, and Huawei’s upcoming phones outside China will no longer get access to apps and services like …

A recently discovered WhatsApp flaw made it possible for hackers to remotely install spyware on an iOS or Android device, without the phone’s user even knowing. WhatsApp has already patched the flaw, both on its server and through an update for the app. If you haven’t updated the WhatsApp app right now, do that immediately. The flaw and subsequent fix …

Google will soon let people literally part with their cash to pay for Android apps, a report said. The search giant will launch “pending transactions” to give you more payment options, according to TechCrunch. “This is a new class of delayed form of payment – like cash, bank transfer and direct debit,”  Aurash Mahbod, the Director of Engineering responsible for …