Draft digital competition bill will make business untenable: IAMAIEx-ante regimes tell businesses precisely how to behave, or what to do. Under the current ex-post regime of the Competition Act, companies ...
Need time to study impact of proposed digital competition law, say tech policy advocacy groups21 organisations urge a 5-month extension from the government for insights on the Digital Competition Bill draft, emphasizing the alignment...
Govt extends deadline for comments on draft digital competition bill till May 15It has also extended the deadline for submission of comments by stakeholders on the report of Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL). ...
ETtech Explainer: Why does X support proposed digital competition law while Meta, Google, Apple oppose it?The Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL), formed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, had on Tuesday proposed a new digital competi...
CDCL: India must adopt an evidence-based approach that gives weight to its realitiesSeveral jurisdictions, including the EU, Britain, Japan and Australia, are designing or implementing ex ante proposals to regulate the busi...
Chairperson, half of governing council must be from Indian firms: IAMAIAccording to a note circulated to members, the chairperson of the association will be the founder, cofounder, chairman, CEO, MD or executiv...
MCA to handle competition issues in digital markets; Meity to look at sector-specific, technical issuesThe Ministry of Corporate Affairs said on Tuesday it would look into competition issues in digital markets while the Ministry of Electronic...
Group of organisations write to MCA over concerns around impact of Digital Competition BillExperts told ET that a digital competition law could have far-reaching consequences, especially for big tech players operating in India's d...
Exclusive: Internet companies mail dissent note against IAMAI’s stand on digital competition billInternet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) had submitted its views to the CDCL opposing the prescription of ex-ante regulations for d...
Indian firms oust Big Tech companies from IAMAI in poll coupDream11 cofounder and chief executive Harsh Jain has been elected the chairperson of the IAMAI, Makemytrip cofounder and group CEO Rajesh M...
Sales grow quickest via q-commerce for packaged goods, RBI may regulate PoS playersHappy Friday. Packaged goods brands are riding the ultrafast delivery boom despite an overall slowdown in the sector due to the ongoing fun...
PhonePe chief Sameer Nigam lashes out at tech founders backing ex-ante regulationsEx-ante regulations aim to address issues identified beforehand preemptively, by laying out a list of dos and don’ts for stakeholders.
Paytm opposes IAMAI’s submission to panel on digital competition lawPaytm is also a part of ADIF, an industry body representing Indian startups, which is opposing Google’s implementation of its new in-app pu...
AWS to invest over $12 billion in India till 2030: CEO; Paytm opposes IAMAI’s stand on digital competitionAdam Selipsky, the newly appointed chief executive of Amazon’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), said India is a “high growth market” ...
IAMAI members flag concerns surrounding ex-ante regulationsIAMAI said that the size or scale-based applicability of regulations under an ex-ante digital competition policy will impact larger players...
IAMAI submits final recommendations to CDCL amid accusations of bias towards Big TechIn the final submission, the IAMAI has argued against the prescription of ex-ante regulations, saying that ex ante measures "may limit grow...
Startups oppose IAMAI's draft comments on house panel views about digital competition lawIAMAI’s members include companies such as Google, Meta and Microsoft, in addition to Indian tech firms such as Paytm, Ola, PhonePe, Unacade...