Security researchers have warned that malicious apps with hundreds of millions of installs have been detected in the Google Play Store. Here’s what you need to know.

The tech giant tries to stave off a judge's efforts to force it to open its Play app store to wider competition.

Google Play Store is testing a fixed app header with an easy to reach Install button, making it easy to install apps even with long listings.

Epic Games is pushing for big changes to the app store model, and Google isn’t ready to give up control just yet.

For three years, Google will have to let third-party Android app stores access the Google Play Store's catalog of apps "so that they may offer the Play Store apps to users," said the injunction issued by US District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California.

The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct.

The judge's order said Google must allow users to download competing third-party Android app platforms or stores and can no longer prohibit the use of competing in-app payment met

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has requested a federal judge in California seeking a delay in a significant court order that required the company to allow more competition in its lucrative Play Store of apps.