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Google pulled more than a dozen popular apps from Play Store in India on Friday after warning that it will be taking actions against developers who have persistently not complied…

Google pulls popular Indian apps from store over fee dispute

Google plans to begin assembling its Pixel smartphone lineup in India, a company executive said, becoming the latest tech giant to bet on the South Asian market for device manufacturing.…

Google to manufacture Pixel smartphones in India

Google has partnered with banks and other lenders in India to offer loans to individuals and merchants on the Google Pay app as the tech giant broadens its Indian payments…

Google makes big consumer and merchant lending push in India

PhonePe launched the Indus Appstore Developer Platform on Saturday, promising zero platform fees and no commissions on in-app purchases as the Walmart-backed fintech races to win Android developers in Google’s…

India’s PhonePe launches app store with zero fee in challenge to Google

The Delhi High Court has ruled that Google’s Ads program falls under the purview of the country’s Trademarks Act and the company must remove ads that infringe upon trademarks in a…

Google required to remove ads that violate trademarks, Indian court rules

Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment…

Amazon plans to invest another $15B in India by 2030

The Internet and Mobile Association of India, an influential tech industry body, has appointed Dream Sports co-founder and chief executive Harsh Jain as the new chairperson of the association, bucking…

Top Indian tech advocacy group replaces Big Tech execs following criticism

Google said on Wednesday that its Google Play’s payments policy is compliant with the Indian watchdog’s order and it is moving ahead with plans to enforce the policy in the…

Google pushes ahead with in-app billing policy in India, insists watchdog compliance

The Asia Internet Coalition, an influential industry organization representing technology giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon, has voiced concerns over a recent amendment to India’s IT rules,…

US tech giants warn India’s fact-checking rule will ‘profoundly infringe’ on press freedom

Google received some relief in its key market of India after a tribunal court set aside four of 10 directives from the country’s competition regulator.

Google wins partial relief in Android antitrust case in India

Google will start to support a third-party billing system for Google Play Store purchases in India on April 26 as the Android-maker begins complying with the local regulatory directions in…

Google, complying with regulatory order, to support third-party billing in India from April 26

Google is revising its business agreements with phonemakers and other partners in India and making a series of other changes in the South Asian market to comply with the local…

Google to make changes to Android business terms in India after antitrust blow

Google will continue to challenge the Indian antitrust watchdog’s ruling but will cooperate with the authorities “on the way forward,” it said Friday, responding to a high-profile decision by the…

Google to cooperate with Indian authorities after losing bid to block Android antitrust ruling

Google warned on Friday that if the Indian antitrust watchdog’s ruling is allowed to progress it would result in devices getting expensive in the South Asian market and lead to…

Google says India antitrust order poses threat to national security

Google said on Friday it is appealing the Indian antitrust body’s ruling that accused the Android-maker of engaging in anti-competitive practices surrounding Android mobile devices and required that it make…

Google appeals India’s fine over ‘unfair’ business practices on Android

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said Monday that India is going through an important period of time as it drafts several key regulations and asserted that it stands to benefit…

Important that India’s regulations provide legal and innovation certainty to firms, Google CEO says

For years, teachers have used YouTube to promote their lessons and persuade learners to join their classes off the platform. YouTube said on Monday it is taking broader steps to…

YouTube to launch Courses in edtech push in India

A large number of doctors write medicine prescriptions in haste, making it nearly impossible for their patients to understand what they scribbled. This problem has been around for decades and…

Google can now read your doctor’s bad handwriting

Google is indefinitely pausing the enforcement of its policy requiring developers to use Play Store’s billing system for user transactions in India following an order by the country’s antitrust body.…

Google pauses enforcement of Play Store billing requirement in India following antitrust order

India’s antitrust watchdog has hit Google with a $113 million fine for abusing the dominant position of its Google Play Store and ordered the firm to allow app developers to…

India fines Google yet again, orders to allow third-party payments

Google says the Indian competition regulator’s order is a “major setback for Indian consumers and businesses” and it is reviewing the decision to evaluate “next steps.” The Competition Commission of…

Google says India’s antitrust order ‘major setback’ for consumers and businesses, opens ‘serious security risks’

India’s competition regulator fined Google $161.9 million on Thursday for anti-competitive practices related to Android mobile devices in “multiple markets” in a major setback for the search giant in the…

India fines Google $162 million for anti-competitive practices on Android

Google is eyeing moving some production of its Pixel smartphone lineup to India, according to a report, the latest in a series of phonemakers with growing ambitions to locally assemble…

Google eyes moving some Pixel smartphone manufacturing to India, report says

Google has halted businesses from using RCS for promotion in India, the company’s biggest market by users, following reports of rampant spam by some firms in a setback for the…

Google disables RCS ads in India following rampant spam by businesses

India’s antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into Google following complaints from news publishers who allege that the search giant is “abusing” its dominance in news aggregation to impose unfair…

India hits Google with antitrust investigation over alleged abuse in news aggregation

The Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Apple’s business practices — in particular, the company mandating iPhone app developers to use a proprietary payments system — in…

India antitrust watchdog orders investigation into Apple’s business practices

A team of Google executives, many of whom worked with one another for years, left the company earlier this year to launch a startup. The fintech firm, Arbo Works, has…

Sequoia Capital India, 120 angel investors back former Google execs’ consumer finance startup Arbo Works

Google on Thursday filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court against the Competition Commission of India following the leak of a damning confidential report detailing the watchdog’s interim…

Google files writ against Indian antitrust watchdog following report leak

Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second-largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by the nation’s watchdog has found.…

Google abused dominant position of Android in India, antitrust probe finds

Twitter has appointed a resident grievance officer in India days after the American social media firm said to have lost the liability protection on user-generated content in the South Asian…

Twitter appoints resident grievance officer in India to comply with new internet rules