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Google mulls removing apps by 10 companies in India for not paying service fee

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Google mulls removing apps by 10 companies in India for not paying service fee

Due to nonpayment of service fees, Google is contemplating the removal of ten applications from its Play Store in India.
Ten businesses' apps that do not pay a service fee to use Google's app store platform in India may face consequences from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which could include their apps being removed from the store, the tech giant announced on Friday.

Google did not identify the aforementioned companies.
Google's strategy of charging a service fee to Indian users of its app, ranging from 11% to 26%, has been the subject of lawsuits from corporations such as Walt Disney and Match, the owner of Tinder.
Following an antitrust ruling that invalidated a previous 15%–30% fee and mandated that it accept payments from other parties, Google implemented the service charge.

Businesses claim that Google's recently implemented service fee scheme is just an old method with a cover.

Ten businesses—many of them well-known—have opted to keep the enormous value they receive from Google Play for a prolonged length of time by obtaining temporary injunctions from courts, Google announced in a blog post.