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The New Google News: 6 Striking Changes You Should Know About

May 20, 2018Rudy Deighton Delta Media

During May 2018’s Google I/O developer conference, one of the most headline-grabbing announcements was the imminent arrival of a new Google News app. Just a few short weeks after Google revealed its plans, the new app went live on both Android and iOS. It merges the old version of the app and the Google Newsstand […]

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