Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly

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Indonesia's competition regulator, the Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha has alleged that Google has violated local anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position for the distribution of apps and its requirement that developers must use its payment systems.a sixty-day investigation of Google, which holds 93 percent of Indonesia's app distribution platform market.

Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar believes the Asia Pacific [APAC] region can outpace the rest of the world in terms of improving cybersecurity prowess, thanks to lower technical debt.

"By leveraging smartphones and technologies like SingPass here in Singapore, QR code based payment systems and similar things in Malaysia, Aadhaar and UPI in India, they've completely transformed the lives of many people with financial inclusion using information technology, which means more and more information technology server software is being deployed than ever before."

"I think the great thing about the revolution that is going on right now with cloud and containers is that people have the opportunity now to read, write and redo their legacy systems and write new software leveraging newer methods, and concepts like DevOps and DevSecOps, which can actually improve the security of the systems from the get go," said Thakar.

While over half a million new subscribers signed up across India, that level of growth is a mere 0.06 percent increase. Reuters got wind of the news through an internal email that cited"macro uncertainty" and a need to focus resources on"core operations."

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