Google Play Newsstand was a news aggregator and digital newsstand service. Launched November 20, 2013; shut down May 8, 2018 — it lived 4 years. One of 15 Google products killed in 2018. Google Play Newsstand was a news aggregator and digital newsstand service owned and operated by Google between 2013 and 2018. The service was launched in November 2013 through the merger of Google Play Magazines and Google Currents. On May 8, 2018, at Google I/O, Google announced that Google Play Newsstand was, in turn, amalgamated into Google News, after which it ceased to exist as a separate service. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).