Google Currents was a social magazine app by Google, which was replaced by Google Play Newsstand. Launched December 8, 2011; shut down November 20, 2013 — it lived 1 year. One of 13 Google products killed in 2013. Google Currents was an app developed by Google that provided subscribers with electronic access to full-length magazine articles. Google released Currents in December 2011 and discontinued it in November 2013 when it introduced Google Play Newsstand, which combined the features of Currents and Google Play Magazines into a single product. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).