Big Tech
UK Closes Google, Apple Probes Ahead of New Digital Rules Regime Rollout
- CMA’s digital market powers set to come into force this fall
- Regulator expects early work of rules to focus on app stores
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The UK’s antitrust regulator closed its probe into app stores run by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. ahead of the implementation of new laws, which give it more power to rein in the dominance of a handful of major tech firms.
The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday that its early work once the new digital markets rules are in place is expected to focus on app stores. Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store had been subject of a dominance investigation.