The Supreme Court declined to restrain Google from removing apps from its Play Store if they don t comply with its billing policy. However, it agreed to hear appeals challenging Google s billing policy. The petitioners argued that Google s policy violates laws and could lead to their apps being delisted, forcing them out of business.
In an interim order on Tuesday, the Madras High Court restrained Google from delisting the Disney+ Hotstar streaming app from its official app store. It has also asked Novi Digital to pay a 4% commission to Google on the downloads through the Play Store. Novi Digital, which is the fifteenth company to challenge the Google Play Store s new billing system, moved the HC yesterday.
Dating app TrulyMadly on Tuesday said it has raised Rs 16 crore (USD 2.1 million) in funding from Venture Catalysts, 9 Unicorns, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and others. Early stage investor advisor Jana K Balan, Neil Bahal from Negen Capital, angel investor Ruchi Sihare and existing investors Inflection Point Ventures, The Chennai Angels and AngelList also participated in the pre-series A round, a statement said.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, InMobi co-founders Abhay Singhal and Piyush Shah, Nodwin Gaming founder Akshat Rathee and Dr Vaidya s founder and CEO Arjun Vaidya also joined the round, it added. TrulyMadly will deploy the capital to build new product offerings, expand to new geographies and boost its technology by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered platform features and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, it said.