Technology

Friends, foes and firework

India’s Digital Competition Bill has turned previous foes in the tech industry into unlikely allies and sparked a polarising debate on market practices. The Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) on February 27, submitted its report to the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) after working on it for more than a year.

The draft of the Digital Competition Bill, 2024, has turned the unlikeliest of foes into close friends and the thickest friends into perhaps industry colleagues who no longer see eye-to-eye. It is not the usual government-versus-industry cat-and-mouse fight this time though.A narrative that started as the draft of the Digital Competition Bill (DCB) being bad for foreign-controlled big tech and therefore a good regulation for the growth of Indian.