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Google Play Music All Access announced at Google I/O

by John-Michael Bond (May 15th, 2013)

Google's long-rumored music streaming service became a reality today with the announcement of Google Play Music All Access. The company has already cleared licensing deals with all three major labels left standing -- Warner, Universal and Sony -- meaning they'll have millions of songs available ...

Google Play Game Services services to support iOS

by John-Michael Bond (May 15th, 2013)

This morning at Google I/O the company announced that Google Play is coming to iOS. No, not the Android store, but Google Play Game Services -- a new group of application programming interfaces (APIs) the company is releasing to developers today. The APIs allows gamers to pick up their games ...

Google Play catching up with iOS App Store in volume, trails in revenue

by Steven Sande (Apr 17th, 2013)

The App Annie Index market report for the first quarter of 2013 is out, showing some fascinating trends. While the Android-centric Google Play app store is seeing continued growth in download volume, the iOS App Store dominates revenues, earning almost 2.6 times the app revenue of Google ...

Apple could face 'legal undertakings' in UK over in-app purchases

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2013)

Remember the UK police officer who reported his son to authorities for fraud after the 13-year-old ran up a US$5,600 bill for in-app purchases on the iOS App Store? That kind of unexpected consumer cost has thrown the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) into a tizzy, and they've announced that ...

iOS App Store accounts for nearly 75% of mobile app download revenue

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 9th, 2013)

A new research report from Canalys took a look at the four leading mobile app stores -- Apple's App Store, Google Play, BlackBerrry World and the Windows Phone Store -- and came away with some interesting data. During the first quarter of 2013, Canalys found that the number of worldwide ...

Fake Apple apps available briefly in Google Play store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 19th, 2012)

For a brief time last weekend, a developer impersonating Apple was selling versions of the company's popular iOS Apps in the Google Play Store. According to a post on Reddit, six apps with familiar titles like iPhoto and iMovie were being sold by Apple Inc. The icons were similar to the ...

Google Play Books updated with new bookmarks, text selection

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2012)

Google's Google Play Books market isn't just for Android devices. There's also an iOS app available to read content purchased on that market, and it's just been updated with some new features. Bookmarks let you place a bookmark by touching the top right corner. You can also highlight and even ...