Google today announced it’s rolling out a new detection and filtering system on the Play Store to crack down on those developers who use illegitimate means to boost their apps’ rankings in the store’s ...

Finding the most popular games on the Google Play Store has always been pretty easy, thanks to the charts for free and paid software. Now, finally, this feature has appeared on the Play Store for ...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as ...

You need to stick to Google Play for apps and run as recent a version of Android as possible if you want to lower your risk of ending up in the crosshairs of malware ...

Earlier this year, Google announced it was going to start testing out search ads in the Google Play store. As investors and analysts panic about how Google's search advertising revenue growth is ...

The day after Christmas is always a good day to see which products and apps people were most excited about this holiday season. According to Wednesday's top free apps charts on Android's Google Play ...

Google's new Android app can record and measure your environment and then helps you turn data into graphs. The app, called Science Journal, is meant to "bring out the inner scientist in all of us" and ...

The App Store charts always provide some interesting nuggets of information on Christmas Day and other big holidays as you can see the sudden influx of app downloads. This year, the Alexa app for ...