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Google, a unit of Alphabet, has agreed to pay $8 million (roughly Rs. 65 million) to settle claims it used deceptive advertisements to promote the Pixel 4 smartphone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday.The search and advertising giant, which also makes Android smartphone software and owns YouTube, has been scrutinized for antitrust and consumer protection infractions by both the federal government and state attorneys general. The federal government has filed two antitrust lawsuits.In this instance,…

Google is being probed in India by Competition Commission of India (CCI) after some companies alleged the service fee the U.S. firm charges for in-app payments breaches an earlier antitrust directive. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday issued an order stating "it is of the opinion that an inquiry needs to be made," a report by Reuters informed.As per the information, Tinder-owner Match Group and Indian startups have asked the watchdog to investigate Google's new User Choice Billing (UCB) system, which…

Google is now under investigation by India's competition watchdog, as per a regulatory order viewed by Reuters on…

India's competition watchdog has begun an inquiry into Google after some companies alleged the service fee the US firm charges for in-app payments breaches an earlier antitrust directive, a regulatory order seen by Reuters showed on Friday.Tinder-owner Match Group and Indian startups have asked the watchdog to investigate Google's new User Choice Billing (UCB) system, which they alleged was anti-competitive.The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday issued an order stating "it is of the opinion that an inquiry…

Google has paid the entire Rs 1,338 crore penalty imposed on the tech giant by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in the Android case, a report has said.Citing reliable sources, a report by news agency IANS said on Tuesday (May 2) that the full penalty amount has been deposited in the Consolidated Fund of India, within the 30-day deadline given by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in its order. The market regulator imposed the fine on Google in October 2022 for exploiting its dominant position in…

India’s top internet entrepreneurs are up in arms against what they term as a lack of “credence” in nodal industry grouping, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). These founders are demanding a change in the leadership of the apex body, which they contend has become a “mouthpiece of Big Tech,” while failing to represent the interests of home-grown digital companies.This signals a deepening of the chasm between the interests of global internet majors such as Google and Facebook, which count India as one of…

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a notice on Google's appeal against a single-judge order directing the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to take up the applications moved by the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) challenging Google's new in-app user choice billing policy and dispose of them by April 26.Google had filed an appeal on Tuesday and the single-judge had passed an order on Monday.A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad has now listed the case…

The startup industry wants the angel tax to be either scrapped or have its exemption threshold of Rs 25 crore raised. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch Also in this letter:■ ETtech interview with HCLTech’s Shiv Nadar■ Edtech, gaming firms concerned over Data Bill’s age gating■ Manohar Kamath, Myntra’s private label head, resignsStartups want angel tax to be scrapped or exemption limit raised India’s startup industry is lobbying the finance ministry to either scrap the so-called angel tax or at least…

The Delhi High Court's verdict provides 'a ray of hope' to Indian startups, against Google’s 'unfair lagaan', the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), an industry body of Indian startups said on Monday. "Google’s ploy of CCI lacking quorum was dismissed by Delhi High Court," the body said in a statement after the Delhi High Court told the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to decide a complaint filed by ADIF against Google’s new user-choice billing policy and decide the same by April 26, when Google’s new…