Google removing 100 apps from a Chinese Android app developer

Google is removing the apps from a Chinese Android app developer - DO Global for Suspecting malicious cyber attacks and data breach possibilities.

It holds roughly 100 apps in the Play Store with over 600 million installs. DO Global is partly owned by Internet major Baidu.

On Friday, BuzzFeed News reported that the DO Global's 46 apps have already been removed from the Play Store and the company intends to ban DO Global overall with more app removals that would follow.

The report quoted a Google spokesperson said, "We actively investigate malicious behaviour and when we find violations, we take action, including the removal of a developer's ability to monetise their app with AdMob or publish on Play".

Further the report said, "DO Global apps no longer offer ad inventory for purchase via Google's AdMob network".

"Their removal from the Play Store marks one of the biggest bans if not the biggest, Google has ever instituted against an app developer", the report noted.

Further, the search engine giant google is extending the ban to the Internet giant's ad products apprearing on Android as well.