Showing posts with label Google India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google India. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2022

Google found to unfairly block rival payments on India store: CCI

 

Google's charging framework for application designers is "unjustifiable and oppressive," India's antitrust controller said in the underlying discoveries of a broad examination, preparing for likely punishments in future.

The Competition Commission of India observed Google oppressed engineers in its Play store charging strategy, as per archives seen by Bloomberg News. The discoveries come following a months-in length examination set off by fights from designers, who've grumbled the US web goliath charges an unjustifiably high expense as a trade-off for utilizing Android application stores and its exclusive installments administration.

Letter set Inc., Google's parent, and Apple Inc. have gone under strain from controllers all over the planet who blame the twin portable goliaths for constraining engineers to utilize their installment frameworks, then, at that point, taking an outsized cut of income. In South Korea, Google had to give an elective charging framework after administrative activity. In that market, Google said it was decreasing application producers' expenses by 4%.

"Google is forcing out of line and biased conditions disregarding guidelines," the Indian organization said in its starter report dated March 14.

"Google's direct is additionally bringing about disavowal of market admittance to contending UPI applications since the market for UPI empowered advanced installment applications is multi-sided, and the organization impacts will prompt a circumstance where Google Pay's rivals will be totally avoided from the market over the long haul," it expressed, alluding to the Unified Payments Interface or state-upheld installments framework.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a virtual meeting with PM Modi

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have had a relationship for at any rate five years now, and they are currently talking about new strides for the post-Covid period.
Pichai, who had in a keynote address invited Modi to the Silicon Valley in September 2015, met the PM for all intents and purposes on Monday morning to talk about financial open doors during the pandemic. The attention was particularly on pulling in FDI into India and the job of innovation monsters in pivoting the economy.
An administration official affirmed that Pichai and Modi had a discussion without explaining on it. Pichai is set to address a virtual crowd in a discussion 'Google for INDIA 2020' later on Monday.
The PM had in an ongoing worldwide gathering emphasized that India was laying honorary pathway for every single universal organization and that India was a vastly improved outside venture goal than numerous others. He had additionally explained that the Aatmanirbhar Bharat conspire was about confidence, yet not tied in with closing out outside speculators.
During his first spell as PM, Modi had visited the central station of American partnerships and furthermore welcomed US majors like Facebook and Uber to New Delhi in a major occasion to commend new businesses.

With Google, India has had numerous joint efforts for government activities, incorporating with Indian Railways.

Monday, January 6, 2020

YouTube's landmark privacy upheaval on kids video content begins

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Starting on Monday, YouTube will overhaul its systems to comply with a landmark privacy ruling, a move that could dent revenue for the Google video giant and thousands of its creators.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google settled with federal regulators in September for violating laws on collecting data from minors, and YouTube agreed to a series of changes. Videos designed as “made for kids” would be stripped of targeted ads, which fetch higher prices, and other valuable features, such as user comments and live chats.
The Federal Trade Commission, which fined Google over the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, has given broad directives about what it considers child-directed video, including clips with popular animations and kids play with toys. Individual video creators will face fines for violating COPPA going forward, which has sparked panic.“YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user,” the company wrote in a Monday blog post.
These changes have been expected for months, but their impact is still unknown. Google has warned that some video creators could lose a bulk of their ad sales. The company hasn’t shared its sales or how much of its massive catalog comes from videos “made for kids.”“We’re committed to helping creators navigate this new landscape and to supporting our ecosystem of family content,” YouTube said.
“We’ll share more in the coming months.”

In addition to the restrictions on videos, YouTube will begin placing a text below “made for kids” videos directing viewers to YouTube Kids, an app that’s designed for children. The app has a much smaller audience than the main YouTube service....Read More