YouTube Production Strategist Eileen Rivera teased Google’s Google Play 4.0 by posting a screenshot on Google+ on Sunday, ahead of the update’s official release. The image was removed shortly after it was published, but not before it had begun making its way around the web.

Google’s got an Android problem, and a big one. And it’s a problem Google shares with us fans of Google content-delivering services, such as Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Google+ and others.

That problems is that companies like Amazon and Facebook increasingly hijack Android to divert user attention away from Google services and toward their own or their partners’.

This post isn’t about the problem, which I’ve written about extensively here, here and here. It’s about the solution.

Still, let’s understand both the problem and the solution.

Privacy? We totally respect your privacy!

Facebook announced Facebook Home yesterday, with five new phones from HTC and Samsung getting the screen interface on launch day, April 12.

Today, the social networking giant posted a bunch of questions and answers on Home and its planned data privacy, on a Facebook page entitled, simply, “Answering Your Questions on Home and Privacy.

Google Search received an update earlier this week, bringing users new features such as package tracking, rapid feedback, and settings information on cards. Google has also redesigned the display of cards in the notification center — prior to this update the cards stood out a bit like a sore thumb, but now they blend in elegantly.

Real Racing 3 is set to get its first update since hitting the App Store back in February, and it’s going to be a big one. In addition to adding two new cars, users will see more than 100 new events, a new game mode, and iCloud save syncing. EA has published a teaser trailer ahead of the update’s release, which shows off the new cars.