Start-ups ask antitrust body to order Google to restore apps
A group representing Indian startups has asked the country’s antitrust watchdog to order Alphabet Inc’s Google to reinstate apps it removed for policy violations, a letter seen by Reuters shows, escalating a showdown with the U.S. giant in a key market. Google on Friday removed more than 100 Indian apps, including popular ones by Matrimony.com, for not complying with its policy of paying a service fee when in-app payment options other than Google’s are used. The Commission has already spent months looking into startups’ complaint that Google is not following a 2022 antitrust directive that prevents it from taking adverse measures against companies which use alternate billing systems. The Alliance of Digital India Foundation in its March 1 letter to the CCI said Google’s decision to remove apps was a “brazen move” which was anti-competitive and the regulator should ask the company to reverse its decision.
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