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NEW YORK — Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn’t have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home — no ladies,” said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. “I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me in my personal problems.” The app she uses is powered by artificial intelligence running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT model, that Myna Mahila Foundation, a local women’s organization, is developing. Thatkare asks the Myna Bolo chatbot questions and it offers…

Google on Friday removed several popular apps by ten Indian developers from its Play Store, citing non-compliance with billing policies. This move has sparked a contentious dispute between the tech giant and Indian developers over what they perceive as Google’s "unfair" policies. But less than a day later, it started reinstating some of the apps on the Play Store, which began complying with its billing norms. Which apps have been impacted?Among the delisted apps were Bharat Matrimony, Telugu Matrimony, Tamil Matrimony,…

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…

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has expressed the government's strong opposition to Google's removal of certain applications from the Play Store.  He stated that the government will not permit the delisting of apps and has called for a meeting with the tech giant in response to this…

Google on Friday delisted several prominent apps by ten Indian developers from its marketplace Play Store for “non-compliance with billing policies”, triggering fresh conflict with a number of local internet firms that have been at loggerheads with the American giant over what they term its “unfair” policies.The delisted apps include Bharat Matrimony, Telugu Matrimony, Tamil Matrimony, Marathi Matrimony as well as Matrimony.com’s Jodii and People Group’s Shaadi.com as well as dating apps Truly Madly and QuackQuack.…

Pop queen Rihanna who delivered an electrifying show at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant`s extravagant pre-wedding celebration in Jamnagar, Gujarat took an early morning flight to depart. The `Umbrella` singer arrived at the airport in a peach outfit with a blue scarf and a souvenier from the event. She happily posed for the paparazzi station to take her pictures. In a candid chat with the shutterbugs, Rihanna was asked if she loved India, to which she replied, "I love India." When asked about the show, she said,…

The tussle between Google and Indian internet companies over Play Store policies intensified on Friday with the US tech major delisting some local apps. Details on this and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ SME IPOs for tech companies■ ETtech Deals Digest■ Potential of Google’s Genie AIGoogle removes some Indian apps from Playstore citing non-compliance Google on Friday began removing the apps of 10 Indian companies over non-payment of service fees, the latest move in the tussle over…

With a film set in rural India in 2001, Mumbai Diaries’ Kiran Rao directs a tale of two newlywed couples taking a long journey by train to set up their new homes in different villages. Changing trains by night in a rush, one groom grabs the hand of the wrong woman and hustles her off the train with him. The mistake isn’t discovered until they reach his village. Anyone who sits down to this gentle comedy-drama on the basis that its wife-swapping premise sounds like a saucy throwback to the Confessions of a Window…

Google, on Friday, March 1, said it would enforce action against a group of Indian app developers as they had not complied with the Play Store's billing policies. The Alphabet-owned company claimed that ten Indian app developers, which include “many well-established” companies, have failed to pay the Play Store fee for availing its services, and now may get removed from the Android app marketplace as a result of it. The tech giant also highlighted it was taking measures to not give differential treatment from the majority…