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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…

A new lawsuit has been filed against Google seeking 3.4 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) in compensation for publishers for lost revenue.According to the claim, made by ex-Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur, Google illegally used its dominant position in online advertising to reduce publishers' profits, the BBC reported.Google stated that it would vigorously oppose the "speculative and opportunistic" action.In the lawsuit, Arthur claimed that because of Google's abuse of its position, ad-tech services were inflated,…

NEW DELHI: Google has told a tribunal in India that the country's antitrust investigators copied parts of a European ruling against the US firm for abusing the market dominance of its Android operating system, arguing the decision be quashed, legal papers show. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October fined Alphabet Inc's Google $161 million for exploiting its dominant position in markets such as online search and the Android app store, and asked it to change restrictions imposed on smartphone makers related…

The Competition Commission is understood to have issued demand notices to Google for its failure to pay within the stipulated time the penalties imposed on the internet giant for anti-competitive practises. Google has filed appeals before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) two orders in October. The appeals are yet to be heard by the tribunal. In October, the watchdog slapped penalties totalling Rs 2,274.2 crore in two separate cases on Android mobile…