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Make sure the files you delete from your Android device stay deleted with Clean Master, today's first app worth downloading. It just received a big update that will make Snapchat users happy – it helps clear out unwanted photos. Gilt, the app to go along with the shopping site, offers convenient clothing shopping at a discount. …

Start your day with Whisper, an anonymous network similar to website Post Secret that lets you share confessions with photos and text. Second is an update to business networking service LinkedIn, which brings a new redesign to its Android offerings. Finally, there's Kingdom Rush, a tower defense game that has a ton of challenging …

Connect with people face-to-face with Hangouts, Google's newly released update to its Talk service. The app lets you have video chats with as many as 10 people – just like its web-based counterpart. We've also got an update to the Diapers.com Android app, which makes it easy for parents to order baby supplies from their …

Hit the weekend and search for potential dates in your area with Swoon, today's first app worth downloading. It lets you anonymously search profiles of other singles near you and “like” them, and if two people “like” each other, they're given the option to send messages. We've also got some games for your weekend: Gravity …

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.

Bring some social consciousness to your spending habits today with Buycott, which lets you scan products to find out what companies actually benefit from you buying them. Famous Birthdays is up next and is packed with information about celebrities. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online first-person shooter with vehicles, …

We've got three great updates to popular apps for today's haul of apps. Up first is Airbnb, an app for connecting with other users to rent space when you're traveling, which now supports Google Wallet. Pinterest is up next, allowing users to share images and videos in a very visual and clean way, and which now supports …

When the game works, it works great. Even with only the two starting classes (the rest are hiding behind a level grind, though you can always opt to buy them instead) there is plenty of fun to be had. The maps are well designed, and the three vehicle types are all extremely empowering, yet not too overpowered. You can take …

Emilly is having a very bad day, to put things lightly. First she wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memory of who she is. That's usually the end of the game's setup right there, but nope. Poor Emilly is then shot down and killed, waking up again in a labyrinthine kind of purgatory or hell, full of strange demonic …

At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google announced a new music streaming service aimed at rivaling Spotify and Pandora that will be run over its Google Play store. The music service, called Google Play Music All Access, is described as “a uniquely Google approach to a music subscription service.” The new service will give users …

Google on Wednesday at its annual I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco announced Google Play game services. As earlier rumors suggested, the gaming suite is similar to Apple’s Game Center and allows developers to add support for leaderboards, achievements, matchmaking and the ability to save game data to the cloud. …

Fire up your video chatting capabilities and get in touch with people on your Contacts List or your Facebook friends with Rounds Video Calling + Chat. The app lets you share videos and watch them while chatting, or make video conference calls. We've also got two games worth your attention: physics-heavy platformer Chuck …

Earlier this year, Google began a trial program to allow select Android developers the opportunity to respond to their critics on the Play Store. The company announced on Monday that the ability to reply to app reviews has now been expanded to all Google Play developers. Ellie Powers of the Google Play team notes that ever …