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  Google Play Store Banned 2.28 Mn Policy-Violating Apps in 2023, Sued Developers Behind 2 Fraudulent Apps

  Google Play Store prevented 2.28 million apps from being published in 2023 due to major policy violations. In a new report published by the tech giant, it highlighted the steps it took in the last year to ensure the security and privacy of Play Store users. The company further highlighted that it also banned 333K developer accounts from the platfor...

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  Fortnite Maker Epic Games Moots Google Play Store Reforms After Antitrust Win

  Epic Games, the company behind the popular battle royale game Fortnite has asked a federal judge in the US to force Google to open up the Play Store to competitors, months after it won an antitrust case against the search giant. The publisher said in a statement on Friday it should be allowed to bring its Epic Games Store to Android "without delays...

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  Government Takes Action Against 'Obscene' Content on 18 OTT Platforms

  The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I&B) has taken action, in coordination with various intermediaries, to block 18 OTT platforms publishing "obscene," "vulgar," and, in some instances, "pornographic content". 19 websites, 10 apps (7 on the Google Play Store and 3 on the Apple App Store), and 57 social media accounts associated with these p...

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  Spotify Allowed to Sidestep Play Store Fees as Part of Confidential Deal, Google Executive Says

  Google allowed Spotify to bypass the company's mandatory Play Store fees, according to a company executive. During the ongoing Epic vs Google trial, the search giant's head of partnership testified that Spotify did not pay the company any fees when it processed customer payments on its own. If customers chose to pay Spotify via Google's in-app bill...

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  Google Play Store Clarifies Dos and Don'ts for Video Game Apps Wishing to Sell NFTs

  Google officially allows video game publishers to facilitate the sale of NFTs on its Play Store. The search engine giant is making it very clear that it will not tolerate app developers engaging in deceptive behaviour. Google expects complete transparency from the video game publishers making their products available on the platform.

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  BGMI Reportedly Available to Download on Google Play Store Through URL

  Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is reportedly available to download on select Android devices. Several users online have spotted the battle royale game on the Google Play Store, ready to download without any prior date confirmation from publisher Krafton. The game seems to be accessible only via the store page URL and won’t appear natively on t...

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  Google Acted Against Over 3,500 Loan Apps in India in 2022 for Violating Play Store Policy

  Google took action against over 3,500 loan apps in India in 2022 for violating Play Store policy requirements, the company said on Thursday. Google said that overall it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play banning 1,73,000 bad accounts preventing over $2 billion (nearly Rs. 16,350 crore) in fraudulent and...

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  Dead by Daylight Mobile Removed From App Store and Google Play Store in India

  Dead by Daylight Mobile has been removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in India. In a tweet, developer Behaviour Interactive confirmed that it received an order from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to remove the multiplayer survival-horror game from Indian digital storefronts. While not explicitly men...

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  Google Reveals to Have Blocked Over a Million Policy-Violating Apps From Being Published on Play Store in 2021

  Google has revealed that it blocked as many as 1.2 million apps from being published on Google Play in 2021. The move was aimed to limit policy-violating apps from the official Android app store.

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  PUBG New State Renamed to New State Mobile, Krafton Announces Lunar New Year Rewards

  PUBG New State has been renamed to New State Mobile, publisher Krafton confirmed on Thursday. The popular battle royale game, which was released in November, has already racked up over 45 million downloads. According to Krafton, New State has always been a mobile-focused experience, which the publisher wishes to highlight with the rebranding of PUB...

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  Google Play to Publish New Apps on Store With Android App Bundle Starting August

  Google introduced Android App Bundle format in 2018 to replace the existing APK format. It makes the app approximately 15 percent smaller than the universal APK format. It makes the app faster to download, that indirectly may lead to faster installs and fewer uninstalls.

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  Google Play App Listings to Have Apple’s App Store-Like Privacy Labels Starting Next Year

  Google has said that all the developers will have to give information about what user data is being used by their apps and in what manner it is handled. The company said that developers will have to publish this information on Google Play by Q2 2022.

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  Google Introduces App Defense Alliance to Curb Malicious Apps from Entering Play Store

  The three partners will integrate Google Play Protect detection into their own scanning engines, to bring an extra layer of eyes for all the apps that are queued to publish.

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  India Beats US in Google Play Downloads; Facebook, WhatsApp Most Popular: App Annie

  App downloads grew by 15 percent worldwide across the App Store and Google Play, with total time spent in apps increasing by 25 percent.

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  Google Plans to Be Ahead of Apple With New App Revenue Sharing Model: Report

  Google is said to be testing the new revenue-sharing model for apps with some select entertainment publishers.