Can you believe it's been sixteen years since Google gave you a way to browse, buy, and download apps on your Android phone?

The judge overseeing the case approved Google’s appeal to pause opening the Play Store to its competitors. While it’s not the permanent solution the company aimed for, it gives Google some breathing room to fight another day.

For now, Google still appears to be testing the Download Manager for the Play Store. However, given that the feature is already in a working state, it should go live for the public sooner rather than later.

Security researchers have warned that malicious apps with millions of installs have been detected in the Google Play Store. Here’s what you need to know.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google won’t have to immediately revamp its Google Play store policies, after a federal judge in California temporarily paused his order that would have forced the technology giant to overhaul its app marketplace.

A federal judge in California has granted Google's request to temporarily pause his order directing the Alphabet unit to overhaul its Android app store Play by Nov. 1 to give consumers more choice over how they download software.

Google has now requested an emergency stay for the recent ruling, stating the upcoming November 1 deadline doesn't give the company enough time to mitigate risks, while claiming the court order will "expose 100-million-plus US users of Android devices to substantial new security risks."

Google says that opening up its Play Store to third-party app stores "harms safety and privacy" and "puts users at risk."

The court-mandated overhaul is meant to prevent Google from walling off competition in the Android app market as part of an effort to protect a commission system that has been a boon for one of the world's most prosperous companies and helped elevate the market value of its corporate parent Alphabet Inc. to $2 trillion.

Judge James Donato, who had previously ruled that Googles Android app store constituted an illegal monopoly, agreed to push back the deadline for enforcing significant changes to its rules. This delay will give time for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review Googles request for a longer-term stay.

The latest development is part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit filed by Epic Games, the developer of "Fortnite." Google had recently approached the California federal court, seeki