The Competition and Markets Authority announced that it is commencing an initial strategic market status investigation pursuant to section 9(1)

The UK government today announced that the Competition and Markets Authority has launched strategic market status investigations into mobile

The United Kingdom's competition regulator is investigating Apple and Google once again, with the CMA assessing the "strategic market status" of the two companies in mobile ecosystems.

The United Kingdom’s competition regulator started a probe Thursday on the mobile ecosystems of both Alphabet's Google and Apple to gauge whether the tech firms’ ownership of their apps and services makes their users pick the tech giants' products over those of rivals.

Britain’s competition regulator launched an investigation into Apple and Google’s mobile ecosystems to assess whether they’re in breach of strict new tech laws.

The CMA intends to probe the operating systems, app stores, and web browsers of both Apple and Google to see whether they should be subject to stricter regulation.

Google's Android and Apple's iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain's competition watchdog, which announced investigations Thursday targeting the two tech giants' mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses.

The U.K.'s CMA is launching so-called "strategic market status" (SMS) investigations into the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched investigations to determine if Apple and Google have strategic market status (SMS) in their mobile ecosystems, including operating systems,

Rocio Concha, Which? Director of Policy and Advocacy, said: "It's welcome to see the Competition and Markets Authority using the powers that it was recently given by Parliament to tackle long-standing issues in the tech sector. "The CMA's work has ...

The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK is looking at whether the Play Store and AppStore support innovation and are pro-competition

The UK’s competition watchdog is to investigate the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google under new digital market rules that could see pro-competition interventions placed upon them. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it would examine the mobile operating systems,