Google Maps prices slashed by 70% for developers after Ola Maps offered for free #businessnews #ola

Google has announced a 70% reduction in Google Maps’ API prices for Indian developers, which comes one week after Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal gave one-year free access to Ola Maps for all developers.
This announcement was made by the tech giant at Google I/O Connect, its developer event at Bengaluru, on July 17.

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Google has also said that it will give a 90% discount to developers working with Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the state-owned company of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade for developing open e-commerce.
Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal announced that Ola cabs will be using its own in-house Ola Maps instead of Google maps, in a post on X (Formerly Twitter). The company would save ₹100 crore in the process, he added.

Two days after this, he also urged developers to use Ola Maps instead of Google Maps, giving them free access for one year.
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