TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's antitrust watchdog Thursday unveiled draft guidelines for the law governing smartphone software services of U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc., aiming to promote ...

US antitrust enforcers reached back to a deal Google struck 15 years ago to argue that the Alphabet Inc. unit should once again share information with third parties, this time to end its illegal ...

In a landmark judgment, a U.S. judge on Thursday ruled that Alphabet’s Google built an illegal monopoly in online advertising technology, violating antitrust laws.

Japan’s competition watchdog announced its probe into Google on October 23, 2023, and in April 2024, it approved a commitment plan from Google that addressed some of its anti-competitive concerns.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission had been investigating Google LLC for 1½ years before it issued its first cease-and-desist order on Tuesday against the tech giant for violating the Antimonopoly ...

<p>The Japan Fair Trade Commission had been investigating Google LLC for 1½ years before it issued its first cease-and-desist order on Tuesday against the tech giant for violating the Antimonopoly Law ...

TOKYO – The Japan Fair Trade Commission had been investigating Google LLC for 1½ years before it issued its first cease-and-desist order on Tuesday against the tech giant for violating the ...

ISTANBUL – Japan’s competition watchdog on Tuesday told Google to stop “unfairly pressuring” smartphone makers to preinstall its widely used search app, Kyodo News reported. The Japan Fair Trade ...

Japan has issued a cease-and-desist order telling Google to stop pressuring smartphone makers to preinstall its search services on Android phones.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 15, 2025, regarding its order for Google LLC to stop unfairly pressuring smartphone makers to preinstall its search and ...

Japan’s antimonopoly watchdog has issued a cease and desist order against Google for unfair trade practices regarding search services for its Android devices.