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Google has taken steps to resolving its disagreement with publishers, as it is now planning to pay some publishers for “high-quality” content. This is coming after the tech giant considered ending its news service in Europe last year after the European Union issued a directive asking internet platforms to pay publishers for content used in search results.
The company has already teamed up with local and national publications like Germany’s Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Zeitung, Die Zeit and Rheinische Post, InQueensland and InDaily in Australia, and Brazil’s Diarios Associados. This partnership is expected to be introduced in a number of other countries in the coming months.
There are two aspects to this program, the first involves Google paying participating publishers to include their content in a new news service that will launch later this year. The news experience will appear in Google News and Discover, which shows a curated list of articles for Android devices.
The second involves the company paying for paywalled articles on a publisher’s site, letting consumers enjoy this content for free. The aim is to help publishers build audience for their premium content. This announcement expands the company’s efforts to support news businesses through the Google News Initiative.
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Google Play is reported to have at least 17 Trojan apps said to be a part of the Trojan family called HiddenAds. This was brought to light by cybersecurity company Avast after these apps were reportedly able to steal users personal information.
The researchers discovered that these apps were masked as games but were designed to display intrusive ads. The Trojan apps could also hide their icons from the affected devices and display timed ads that cannot be skipped.
The team of researchers initially discovered a total of 47 apps belonging to the Trojan family, but Google removed 30 of these apps on receiving this report. The team found that each of the downloaded apps had a separate developer on Google Play with a generic email address. Some of these apps include: Skate Board-New, Find Hidden Differences, Spot Hidden Differences, Tony Shoot-New, and Stacking Guys.
The HiddenAds campaign through these apps were most common in Turkey, Brazil and India, spreading to other regions as well. This is not the first time that such harmful apps have been discovered on Google Play, as Avast detected apps that were installed over 1 million times last year which could stalk users.
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