Android Market

Google is hiring dozens of app developers to begin working on original apps for the Android Market, reports say. The effort is one of incoming CEO Larry Page's first strategic shifts.

Google's Eric Chu spoke at the Inside Social Apps conference yesterday, where he said that the company is "not happy" about how many paid apps are being downloaded and laid out several ways the Android Market will improve in 2011.

A research firm is estimating that the mobile apps market will grow to $25 billion by 2015, with an annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent.

European cell phone operators are projecting a lot less revenue growth than they'd like. As such, they'd like websites, Google, and Apple to start footing some of the bill.

Facebook has sucked up nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic in the United States and has more downloads than any app, ever.

YouTube showed off a new test feature that auto categorizes all of its videos as well as YouTube Remote, an Android app that allows users to control the Google TV YouTube app from a phone.

Google has banned Secret SMS Text Replicator from the Android Market, an app that secretly forwards texts from one phone to someone else's phone.

Research released today by three research institutions suggests that 50 percent of Android applications may be secretly sharing your information with advertisers.

A series of Android wallpaper apps for has been collecting personal information and shipping it off to China, unbeknown to users.