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    Apps Permissions in the Google Play Store

    Analysis of over 1 million apps in Google’s Android operating system in 2014 shows apps can seek 235 different kinds of permissions from smartphone users. The average app asks for five permissions.

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    1. Home broadband adoption: Modest decline from 2013 to 2015

    Broadband adoption in the United States has experienced a modest decline in recent years, falling from 70% in 2013 to 67% in 2015. Those figures compare a September 2013 Pew Research Center survey that has a large sample size of 6,010 adults with combined surveys from April, July and November 2015 that total 6,687 adult […]

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    About This Report

    The research presented here is based on an analysis of 1,041,336 apps available in the Google Play Store, which provides apps for smartphones using Google’s Android operating system. Data about these apps was collected for analysis from June 2014 through September 2014. However, it does not cover the apps ecosystem for iPhones, Windows phones, Blackberry […]

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    A new estimate of the U.S. Muslim population

    Pew Research Center estimates that there were about 3.3 million Muslims of all ages living in the United States in 2015. This means that Muslims made up about 1% of the total U.S. population.

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    Home Broadband 2015

    The share of Americans with broadband at home has plateaued: It now stands at 67%, down slightly from 70% in 2013. At the same time, more Americans rely only on their smartphones for online access.

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    Chapter 2: An Analysis of Apps in the Google Play Store

    Pew Research Center surveys and independent analysts have found that roughly one-third of all American adults – and about half of smartphone owners – have an Android smartphone. All apps for Android phones are housed in the Google Play Store, and each app has its own web page where information about the app is available. […]