Collaborate Disseminate
In the wake of its antitrust victory over Google, Epic Games has proposed how the judge in that case could punish the online giant.
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In the wake of its antitrust victory over Google, Epic Games has proposed how the judge in that case could punish the online giant.
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Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft were named influential gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. Continue reading Deadline for EU DMA Compliance Reports Arrives for ‘Gatekeeper’ Orgs
Google has agreed to pay $700 million to settle a Play Store antitrust lawsuit that was filed by US states and consumers in 2021. The company will also make some changes to its Play Store and simplify the process of sideloading apps on Android.
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Developing an application has never been easier with AppMySite.
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In celebration of Google Play’s 10th anniversary, Google is unveiling a new logo and icon for the service and a 10x Google Points promotion.
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Suspected government-backed hackers from Iran have used an array of techniques, from password theft to uploading a fake app to a prominent app marketplace, to try gathering intelligence from targets over the past year, Google said in a bulletin published Thursday. The espionage group APT35, also known as Charming Kitten, last year successfully uploaded to Google’s Play Store an app that masqueraded as a virtual private network service, claiming the tool would safeguard user data. In fact, the apparent VPN program functioned as spyware, collecting call logs, text messages, contacts and location data from affected devices. Google said in an Oct. 14 update that it detected the program “quickly” and removed it before any downloads occurred. The surveillance app marks an update to existing APT 35 tactics. The group is best known for reportedly targeting email accounts associated with former President Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2020 and espionage around […]
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Since 2017, Microsoft has offered its Office suite to Chromebook users via the Google Play store, but that is set to come to an end in a few short weeks. As of Sept. 18, Microsoft is discontinuing support for Office, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, on Chromebook. Microsoft is not, however, abandoning […] Continue reading Microsoft is discontinuing its Office apps for Chromebook users in favor of web versions
Google will reduce its fees to mobile app developers from 30 percent to 15 percent, but just in South Korea, at least for now.
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An app with more than 10 million downloads from the Google Play Store recently took a hard turn to the dark side, according to antivirus company Malwarebytes. The Barcode Scanner app had appeared in the store for years, but in December it became clear that it “had gone from an innocent scanner to full on malware,” writes Nathan Collier, a researcher for the Silicon Valley company. Malwarebytes said Google Play removed the app in early December after users reported that it was opening the default web browsers on phones to serve up ad pages — without any direct action by the device owners themselves. The company is labeling the malicious code as a trojan. “It is frightening that with one update an app can turn malicious while going under the radar of Google Play Protect,” Collier writes. The researcher makes a clear distinction: There are many ways apps can go […]
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