Status quo for Indian apps in Google row; D2C brands push offline

Posted on: 06 Mar, 01:08 AM

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Google is temporarily reinstating apps of Indian internet companies that were delisted from Play Store on March 1..

Driving the news: Google is providing an extended timeline to ten companies to pay the service fee applicable for in-app purchases made by users..

Burdensome for digital startups: Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and CEO of Matrimony.com, one of the companies impacted by Google's Friday move to delist non-compliant apps, told ET, "We continue to maintain that the Google fee of 11% to 26% for digital services apps is highly burdensome for digital startups."..

ONDC has commenced a pilot to onboard street food vendors in Delhi and LucknowThe plan is to onboard 500 street food vendors in the next two months in both these cities followed by a nationwide scale upSeller apps onboard merchants while buyer apps are customer-facing apps on which orders are placed..

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