The Competition and Markets Authority's announcement Wednesday follows separate investigations it opened at the start of the year into Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, using newly acquired ...

On 25 July 2025, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it has been actively reviewing websites to ascertain levels of compliance following the 2024 legislative ban on ...

On Wednesday, the Competition and Markets Authority proposed designating the U.S. tech giants as having a "strategic market status" or SMS, after opening an investigation into the matter in January.

"Around 90-100% of UK mobile devices running on Apple or Google's mobile platforms," the CMA said, adding this means the firms "hold an effective duopoly". Apple said it is concerned the ruling would ...

Apple and Google have provisionally been given Strategic Market Service (SMS) status. Now the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has set out a roadmap of measures.

Alphabet 's Google has unveiled a series of modifications to its Play Store in an effort to avert future fines from the ...