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PhonePe launched its Android-based mobile app marketplace, Indus Appstore, in India on Wednesday, February 21. The app store was launched by the Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw during a hybrid event. The Walmart-owned fintech firm said its new app storefront intends to solve the major pain point of the lack of regional language content in marketplaces. The Indus Appstore will be available in English and 12 Indian regional languages. It also comes…

Meta Platforms said on Thursday that businesses purchasing a "boost" for their posts on the iOS versions of its social media apps Facebook and Instagram would need to pay an extra 30% service charge to app store operator Apple.Advertisers will be able to boost their content on Instagram and Facebook via a browser without paying the Apple service charges, the social media giant said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIIT…

says it will start making businesses and influencers cover the cost of a 30 percent fee is charging when they pay to promote their posts on the Facebook and Instagram iOS apps. In 2022, Apple to apply the 30 percent cut it takes from digital purchases to boosted posts, claiming that they were effectively in-app purchases. Meta is now passing that additional cost along to advertisers.Starting later this month in the US and in other markets later this year, Apple will take over billing of boosted posts through the apps.…

Image: CeltStudio (Shutterstock)If you’re pissed that Amazon recently pulled a fast one and inserted ads into its previously ad-free streaming service Prime Video, you can now make your wrath felt. A recently proposed class-action lawsuit is asking the e-commerce giant to fork over $5 million to compensate users who were “deceived” by Amazon’s flip-flopping on ads. The suit accuses the company of breach of contract and false advertising, among other things. Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayLast year, Amazon…

Chinese online social media platform TikTok has challenged a supervisory fee amounting to 0.05% of its annual worldwide net income to cover EU regulators' costs of monitoring compliance with new EU rules, the second company to do so after Meta Platforms.Under the Digital Services Act (DSA), 20 very large online platforms, including TikTok, Meta, Google, Apple and two very large online search engines are required to pay the annual charge.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Meta and TikTok owner ByteDance are not keen on the idea of paying the European Union to regulate them. The companies have challenged a supervisory fee set forth by EU moderators, who are now required to monitor Meta, TikTok, and other major platforms under the Digital Services Act (DSA), Politico reports. Meta first announced its action, with ByteDance following suit a day later.Under the current arrangement, all designated companies must split the €45.2 million ($48.7 million) that EU's regulators argue is necessary to…

Mozilla is rolling out a tool that can automatically monitor data brokers for your personal information and scrub any of your exposed details from them. Mozilla Monitor Plus expands on the Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor) service, which lets you know when your email address is included in a data breach.This new paid service, which costs $9 per month or $107.88 per year, aims to proactively make sure your personal information stays off more than 190 data broker sites. Mozilla says that's double the number of data…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETMicrosoft's Copilot tool is already freely available as a dedicated webpage, mobile app, and built-in Windows tool, offering quick and easy access to an AI chatbot that will answer your questions, generate content, and create images. But now, Microsoft has upped its game with a Pro version of Copilot that kicks in more features and better access for $20 per month.Also: Microsoft adds Copilot Pro support to iPhone and Android appsThe Pro version offers three current benefits and a fourth one on the…

Spotify users in Europe will soon be able to purchase audiobooks and subscription plans directly within the music-streaming app, starting from March. This development follows the implementation of the region's new competition law for Big Tech,…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETGPT-4, OpenAI's most powerful large language model (LLM), has been available for months through a subscription to ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 a month. If you're looking for more accurate responses to your queries, AI-generated images, web browsing, data analysis, and access to different GPT-4 bots all in one place, GPT-4 has proven itself superior to the publicly available GPT-3.5.Also: How to use ChatGPT Plus: From web browsing to pluginsDon't get me wrong -- GPT-4 can still make blunders, which…