{"id":503466,"date":"2024-03-02T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=503466"},"modified":"2024-03-02T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T09:04:15","slug":"shaadi-com-google-play-store-anupam-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/business-news\/shaadi-com-google-play-store-anupam-mittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Store removes shaadi.com, CEO Anupam Mittal reacts, says dark day for India internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With an explanation of non-compliance with billing policies, Google recently decided to remove ten popular apps, including the popular matrimony app shadi.com, developed by Indian developers, from the Play Store. This move has sparked outrage and raised worries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the delisted apps are names like Bharat Matrimony, Shaadi.com, Telugu Matrimony, and dating apps like Truly Madly and QuackQuack. Popular video-streaming platforms Stage, Balaji Telefilms&#8217; Altt, and audio streaming app Kuku FM have also been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading names in the Indian startup scene have responded strongly to the move, which has heightened tensions between the Internet giant and local internet companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaadi.com&#8217;s founder, Anupam Mittal, voiced his disappointment over the removal of important apps, calling it a dark day for India&#8217;s Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Mittal said today is a dark day for the Indian Internet. Google has delisted major apps from its app store even though legal proceedings are underway at the Competition Commission of India and the Supreme Court of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is a dark day for India Internet. Google has delisted major apps from its app store even though legal hearings are underway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCI_India?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CCI_India<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/indSupremeCourt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@indSupremeCourt<\/a> Their false narratives &amp; audacity show they have little regard for \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 Make no mistake &#8211; this is the new Digital East\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Anupam Mittal (@AnupamMittal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnupamMittal\/status\/1763599239731454307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said, their false narratives and audacity show they have little regard for&#8230; Make no mistake. This is the new Digital East India Co., and this Lagaan must be stopped, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another tweet, he said Google is evil, as he used the hashtag #EvilGoogle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEO of the OTT platform STAGE, Vinay Singhal, whose app was removed from the Play Store, expressed similar worries, stating that Google&#8217;s recent moves went against the company&#8217;s once-famous motto, Don&#8217;t be evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Google is the most evil company for businesses. Our Indian startup system is completely controlled by them.<br><br>Google delisted us in 2019 for 25 days without pre-notifying us. Worst days ever. Just imagine the atmosphere where the team is working daily in the office and there is no\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Lal Chand Bisu (@lcbisu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lcbisu\/status\/1763536163951063306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuku FM&#8217;s CEO Lal Chand Bisu, called Google the most evil company for businesses, after their audio storytelling app was taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about a previous incident in which Google delisted Kuku FM in 2019 without giving any notice, Bisu called those days the worst days ever,\u00a0citing the effect on the team&#8217;s ability to work nonstop even if their app was unavailable on the Play Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, other CEOs also raised their voices against Google, whose apps were removed from the Play Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For a company that once had a motto &#8211; Don&#39;t be evil, Google seems to be doing all things evil at this point. <br><br>STAGE app has been delisted from the Google Playstore today on notice of a couple of hours, just because we refused to give in to their monopolistic policy of allowing\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VRZqxun2PR\">pic.twitter.com\/VRZqxun2PR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vinay Singhal (stage.in) (@vinaykrsinghal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vinaykrsinghal\/status\/1763550892505305435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indian companies will comply &#8211; for now. But what India needs is an App Store \/ Play Store that is a part of Digital Public Infrastructure &#8211; like UPI and ONDC. The response needs to be strategic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiyushGoyal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PiyushGoyal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiyushGoyalOffc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PiyushGoyalOffc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sanjeev Bikhchandani (@sbikh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbikh\/status\/1763544188061470997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With over 97% of the smartphone market in India, Google has an overwhelming amount of power, which is why there is an outcry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has removed 10 Indian apps from the play store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1518,110599],"tags":[136974,3807,2013,162174,136973],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02143036\/main-image-credit-Anupam-Mittal-Instagram_65d325692681c-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503466"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=503466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->