Google is opening up the Play Store’s walled garden in the US and now allows developers to link to alternative app stores and payment options.

If you went through the trouble of installing Android Auto on your car stereo, you owe it to yourself to try more apps besides Google Maps and Spotify.

Google is opening up the Play Store in the US, allowing users to download apps and make payments outside it starting October 29, 2025.

In addition to offering AI summaries of reviews for apps and games, the Play Store has offered an "App highlights" feature since last year. Meanwhile, the Q&A feature we mentioned above has been in ...

Effective immediately, Android apps distributed through the Play Store are no longer required to use Google Play Billing services, as has been the case for years. This change is effective in the US as ...

From today the US Google Play store will open up to alternative payment methods is an injunction from the Epic vs. Google ...

Over the last few months, Google has rolled out AI-powered age verification for several of its services, including Google ...

Google is rolling out a new age verification system on the Play Store, asking users to prove they are 18 before downloading ...

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