Big Tech is stifling startups, says CCI official

Blaming powerful global tech companies for impeding the growth of Indian startups, Ansuman Pattnaik, director general at the Competition Commission of India (CCI), said that firms like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft—and now NVIDIA—routinely restrict market access and tilt digital ecosystems in their favour.

“Startups face problems from the big digital firms. They are popularly called GAFA—Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon…and Microsoft. Now NVIDIA, too,” said Pattnaik at the Startup Mahakumbh in New Delhi.