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Welcome back to the Weekly News Wr(app), the weekly Indus OS series that recaps the latest in the mobile and app industry.
In this week’s wr(app), we cover:
- NCLAT permits Indus OS to file impediment applications
- Google moves the CCI case to Supreme Court
- France’s CNIL issues an €8 million penalty on Apple for collecting user data without permission
- New Year’s eve becomes the busiest day of the week for OYO
- Zoom launches cartoon avatars for its video meeting app
NCLAT permits Indus OS to file impediment applications, Google moves the CCI case to Supreme Court
Google earlier appealed to the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) against the CCI’s penalty order for abusing its dominant position in the Android market. However, NCLAT refused to grant interim protection to the tech giant. Meanwhile, NCLAT has permitted Indus OS, along with Map My India, and ADIF to file their impleadment applications before NLCAT, as the aggrieved party of Google’s anti-competitive practices.
Furthermore, Google has filed a legal challenge in Supreme Court against the CCI ruling. It argued the CCI’s investigation unit “copy-pasted extensively from a European Commission decision, deploying evidence from Europe that was not examined in India”.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/3k3Ablw
France’s CNIL issues an €8 million penalty on Apple for collecting user data without permission
France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) issued an €8 million penalty on Apple for collecting identifying data from App Store users without their permission. The officials said that the firm was profiting from such violations through better ad targeting.
The CNIL reported that even if there was a choice to disable ad targeting, it was enabled by default, and the process of disabling was long and tedious.
In 2020, Apple has faced a penalty by the country’s competition authority of $1.2 billion (now down to $364.6 million) for alleged antitrust abuses in its distribution chain.
Read more here: bit.ly/3GuxalB
New Year’s eve becomes the busiest day of the week for OYO, Varanasi overtakes Goa
Travel tech firm OYO recorded over 4.5 lakh bookings on New Year’s eve. This marked their highest number of bookings per hotel per day in the last 5 years. Bookings from Varanasi overtook Goa and were rising by the hour.
OYO’s annual travel trends index showed that small towns witnessed the highest growth in bookings.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/3k6fPI2
Zoom launches cartoon avatars for its video meeting app
After the animal avatars launch earlier this year, Zoom launches human cartoon avatars for its meeting app. The feature is available for beta users who have a paid account. The customizable characters mirror human movements and facial expressions. This injects an element of fun into less formal meetings and lets the user be present without having to show themselves completely.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/3IKWQNs
