UK watchdog targets Apple, Google mobile ecosystems with new digital market powers
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Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain’s competition watchdog, which unveiled investigations targeting the two tech giants’ mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses. The Competition and Markets Authority said Thursday it launched separate investigations to determine whether the mobile ecosystems should be given “strategic market status." The watchdog is flexing its newly acquired regulatory muscles again after the new digital market rules took effect at the start of the year. Both Google and Apple said the work “constructively” with the U.K. regulator on the investigation.
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