Despite the “free” and “open” buzzwords bandied about during the G1 launch, app developers stand to make a good deal of money the platform — that is, when the Android Marketplace lets them. Google ...

Google must open up its Android app store to competition from smaller rivals like “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, a federal judge said Monday in a bombshell ruling that could topple the company’s ...

We all knew that Google's Android OS had it all to do to match the App Store for sheer quantity of apps. But while it s still nowhere near Apple s figure of 160,000 (the Android Market total figure ...

The Android Market debuted on this date all the way back in 2008. A little over three years later, the Market would pick up the Play Store name we still use today. Google nearly just found itself ...

Yesterday's announcement of the first Android handset has been comprehensively covered online, with much of the coverage focusing on the first handset, the T-Mobile G1. But what of Android Market, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped ...