Google To Hold First Meeting With Indian Startups On October 21

CIOReviewIndia Team | Tuesday, 20 October 2020, 08:32 IST

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Coming October 21, 2020, Google will be hosting its first industry meeting in a webinar with Indian app developers, startup founders and other stakeholders, for addressing concerns regarding the policies of Play Store.

Google announced its intentions of enforcing a 30 percent cut on in-app purchases for Play-distributed apps and other policies last month, where Indian startup founders and tech entrepreneurs have been in arms. Many, which includes Paytm founder CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, have slammed 30 percent charge, as an example of Google abusing its dominance. In a conference regarding mini-app developers, Sharma targeted Google and called the tech giant a “toll collector” as he talked about the Paytm Mini App Store.

After being criticized from the Indian startup ecosystem for its Play Store policies, Google, at the beginning of this month, deferred the implementation of the policies for Indian app developers by six months to April 2022. This policy is about to come into effect in other regions from October 2021.

Google charted its first meeting with the Indian app developers, startup founders and other stakeholders on October 21. Google stated that it has plans of conducting another meeting with the Indian stakeholders next month.

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