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Moving forward, developers of third-party add-ons in Chrome and Drive must take a more conservative approach with user permissions. Extensions should only request the least amount of user data they need to function. Additionally, any app that handles user-pro…

The company spun out Photos from Google+ at I/O 2015. It's the ninth Google product to hit the billion-user mark, following Search, Gmail, Chrome, Drive, Maps, YouTube, Play Store and Android, but it got there a lot faster than many of those. Gmail, for insta…

Google is just a couple of months away from releasing its first smart home device with an onboard camera. The company quietly updated one of its support pages today, detailing that the 10″ Nest Hub Max will be available September 9 for $229. After the page w…

After nearly a decade in court, Google has agreed to pay $13 million in a class-action lawsuit alleging its Street View program collected peoples private data over wifi from 2007 to 2010. In addition to the moolah, the settlementfiled Friday in San Franciscoa…

Match Group spokeswoman Justine Sacco characterized this as an experiment to Bloomberg, saying that the firm "constantly" tests new features and that payment options which "benefit experience" were an example of this. We've asked Google for comme…

Google recently removed several apps from the Google Play Store after discovering they violated the Play Store terms of serviceand, more importantly, could be used as stalkerware. That doesnt mean theyre deleted from your Android device, though, so nows a gre…

Google today announced an update to YouTube Music on iOS and Android that will make it easier to seamlessly switch between merely listening to the audio and watching a song’s music video. To do so, you only have to tap a button at the top of the screen. This …

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Another wave of sketchy apps has been banned from the Google Play Store. This time around, the offending apps all came from one publisher, CooTek, who has been accused by the security firm Lookout of deploying the malicious adware BeiTaAd in its apps. Accord…

On Tuesday, Google vice president of public policy Karan Bhatia told members of the Senate Judiciary that the companys Project Dragonflya search engine for the Chinese market that was widely reported to involve huge concessions to state censors and protested …