UC Browser pulled from Google Play for shady activity

UC Browser -- the Android web browser with more than half a billion downloads to its name, and which has proved particularly popular in India -- has been pulled from Google Play. In addition to download from the Play Store, the browser came preinstalled on a number of handsets, and it gained popularity thanks to its speedy performance and low system requirements. But the fact that it "used "Misleading" and "Unhealthy" methods of promotion" led to it being nixed. There was some debate on Reddit about just why the app had been pulled from Google Play. Artem Russakovskii from Android… [Continue Reading]