UK designates Apple and Google
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The UK's Competition Markets Authority has designated Google as having Strategic Market Status, meaning the company has substantial and entrenched market power. According to a new regulation filed on Friday, suggestions to fix this designation could change how the online search giant operates within the country.
Google has criticised the UK competition watchdog’s decision to give its mobile platform "strategic market status".
Google could be forced to change its search operations in the UK after it became the first company subject to new powers from Britain's competition regulator to tackle the dominance of Big Tech.