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Amid the removal of Jack Dorsey's Bitchat from app stores in India following the IT Ministry's order, government sources on Tuesday said the Bluetooth messaging app was a law-and-order concern and had to be removed. The government is duty-bound to maintain law and order, sources asserted. Bitchat, they said, allowed anyone to turn on Bluetooth and send messages through several hops, and that this was a law-and-order concern. Apple has officially removed the offline messaging application, Bitchat, from its India App Store after a demand from the country's IT ministry, Jack Dorsey said in an X post on Saturday. "Government of India officially removes Bitchat from the App Store," Dorsey, who is the app's developer and Twitter co-founder, wrote in his post, alongside a screenshot of a notice from Apple's App Review team. The app has also been pulled down from the Play Store. Bitchat came under government scrutiny in July this year, coinciding with the Cockroach Janta Party's protests

Pavel Durov says cybercriminals are exploiting platform moderation systems through 'takedown extortion', putting legitimate online communities across social platforms at risk

The government has ordered app stores to remove BAT-BMS, Lossigy and Epoch-i-ion after videos showed they could be used to remotely disable electric vehicles, citing cybersecurity concerns

Amid reports that e-rickshaws could be remotely shut down through the Chinese smartphone application BAT-BMS, the government said on Friday that two such apps had come to its notice and have since been removed from app stores. IT Secretary S Krishnan asserted that app stores must exercise due diligence, and said the government would take up the matter with them to ensure that potentially harmful apps are not made available. Confirming that action has been taken in the matter, Krishnan said, "That is right...there are a couple of apps, which came to our notice yesterday and both of them have been taken down from the app stores." He was speaking on the sidelines of a CII Cybersecurity summit. The issue drew public attention on Thursday after reports surfaced that some e-rickshaws were being rendered inoperable through a remote shutdown feature linked to the Chinese smartphone application BAT-BMS. The videos sparked widespread concerns over the cybersecurity risks posed by such ...

The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case ​in its next term, which begins in October

The Korea Fair Trade Commission's (KFTC) Market Surveillance Bureau found Google's alleged abuse of market dominance in the Android app marketplace affected $9.1 billion in revenue

After the CCI this month gave Apple an ultimatum to submit its financials and scheduled a final hearing on May 21, the company has urged the Delhi HC to urgently intervene to put the matter on hold

Samsung launches Hearapy app on Android to tackle motion sickness using sound, playing a 100Hz tone via headphones to help improve balance and reduce nausea during travel

Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed on Wednesday with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15 per cent to 30 per cent commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly. Backed into a legal corner, Google is now prepared to ...

Sponsored apps will no longer be limited to the top slot, with Apple adding more ad placements further down App Store search results across markets starting March 2026

Reportedly, some users on iOS 26.3 beta are seeing sponsored App Store results without the usual blue background, making ads harder to distinguish from regular search listings

Apple has announced the 2025 App Store Award winners, honouring 17 apps and games for excellence in innovation, user experience, design, and cultural impact

Apple has named 45 apps and games as finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards, acknowledging titles that stood out this year in terms of innovation, user experience, design and cultural impact

The Commission is asking the businesses to provide information on their age verification systems, as well as on how they prevent minors from accessing illegal products

Alongside, Nothing introduces Playground, which is a dedicated space for apps designed and created by its community through Essential AI platform

Developed by Chennai-based Zoho Corporation, messaging app Arattai has topped the App Store as daily sign-ups surged from 3,000 to 350,000

Adobe's Project Indigo camera app brings computational photography for SLR-like look to images, pro-grade camera control, and previews of upcoming AI-powered editing tools

Apple sought to pause compliance with a 2021 injunction after a judge ruled it engaged in anticompetitive conduct, but the request was denied as it appeals the ruling

According to the report, over 94 per cent of billings and sales facilitated by the App Store in India accrued solely to developers, without any commission paid to Apple

Epic contends Apple still hasn't complied with her order, more than a year after the company exhausted appeals all the way to the US Supreme Court