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Hi, this is Digbijay Mishra in Bengaluru. At the peak of the funding winter last year, an investor told me that the pace of investment deals will continue to be slow, but the nature of companies grabbing new cash will be different. The next obvious question was: what kind of companies? Consumer brands, the person said.Cut to March 2024, and the trend is now well established among tech-first venture capital funds increasingly backing brands selling products and services to a wide range of consumers. Sure, they're new-age…

Quick-commerce platforms Blinkit and Zepto are set to expand beyond groceries, adding categories like fashion and electronics. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Startups decry govt’s AI missive■ Apple to hit sweet spot in India sales■ Flipkart Internet gets $111 mn boost Zepto, Blinkit adding fashion, electronics, beauty and moreQuick-commerce players Zepto and Zomato-owned Blinkit are set to expand their carts and offer much more than groceries and essentials. Zepto and Blinkit will…

The government will meet founders of startups and senior executives from Google India on Monday to hear their views on the delisting of several Indian apps from the search giant’s Play Store and find a solution. The meeting is scheduled to be held late in the day.Google has, in the interim, “agreed to restore” all the apps that it had delisted from the app marketplace since Friday, people in the know said.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Google has restored all its apps after Union Minister of Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw intervened. To discuss the matter further, the minister will meet with Google on Monday. Story is updating..  function loadFacebookScript(){…

The controversy over Google's recent removal of 10 Indian apps from the Google Play Store has escalated. The Indian government has declared its strong disapproval of the delisting of homegrown apps and indicated it will not be tolerated. The dispute centres around the non-payment of service fee by these apps, leading to their removal from Google Play Store, including matrimony services like Bharat Matrimony and job search app Naukri. The government has called for a meeting with Google and the affected startups next week…

In a recent development, Google India has taken action against 10 Indian mobile applications, including popular ones like Bharat Matrimony, Info Edge's 99acres, and Naukri.com, by removing them from the Google Play Store. The move comes as a result of a dispute over service fee payments imposed by Google on in-app transactions - these companies were not paying what the Play Store wanted.The move has sparked a huge controversy with Sanjeev Bikhchandani, the founder of InfoEdge, even going as far as calling for the…

The announcement follows the controversy over its Play Store policies which led to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) directing the tech behemoth to allow third-party payment systems for apps on the Play Store. Google complied with CCI’s direction, allowing developers to start using third-party payment tools for subscription as well as in-app payments. However, it had set a 6 April deadline for developers to comply with the rules after CCI’s decision. It had also appealed…