It’s day 2 of Google Play’s 25 Billion App Downloads Celebration and a fresh new batch of apps have been discounted to an insane 25¢. These apps will only stay at this price for 24 hours so you’re going to want to grab the ones you don’t already own because there’s no better time to try them out than now. Today’s list of 25¢ apps includes:

Here’s an interesting rumor. Purportedly ASUS and Google are working on two new versions of the Nexus 7, both of which will be thinner and launch by the end of 2012. If that bit of information doesn’t get you excited, how about the rumor that one of these purported tablets will only cost $99? Say what?!

I know what I’m doing this weekend.

Millions of us have spent many hours trying to eliminate those pesky green pigs in Rovio’s Angry Birds series, but now it’s time to switch teams. Rovio just released Bad Piggies on Android, iOS, Mac, and PC. And for the first time ever you’re joining the pigs on their mission to steal as many eggs as they can get their hooves on.

Back in March, BlueStacks announced the availability of the beta-1 version of their App Player for the PC. Thanks to BlueStacks LayerCake technology, this App Player enabled Android apps to run on x86-based PCs. They’ve now taken their App Player one step further by teaming up with AMD to launch the AMD AppZone.

Schmidt insists Apple and Google are very good friends.

Google chairman Eric Schmidt is currently on a tour of Asia, where he announced the company’s $199 Nexus 7 tablet in Tokyo on Monday. During his announcement, Schmidt found some time to talk about Apple and its patent wars against other companies. Schmidt revealed that while Apple is a “very good partner,” he doesn’t agree with patent wars, and feels they “prevent choice” and innovation.

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