Japan’s Fair Trade Commission issued a cease and desist order to Google on Tuesday, finding its practices to be monopolistic. The cease and desist is the conclusion of an 18-month investigation ...

(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc. is preparing to counter Japanese government allegations that it engages in anticompetitive practices such as forcing smartphone makers to give priority to Google ...

Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday, April 22, 2024, that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) ...

Japan's antitrust watchdog said Monday, April 22, 2024, that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is reportedly planning to or has already sent a cease-and-desist order to Google LLC’s Japan office, accusing Google of breaching Japan’s antimonopoly laws by ...

Japan’s probe will focus on whether Google’s business practices hurt competition, the official added. The watchdog has asked relevant third-parties to provide feedback on the case by Nov. 22.

Google says it will lower its cameras by 16 inches for its re-shoot and for all future Street View photographs in Japan. Street View cameras are mounted on cars and take photographs with 360 ...

Google runs data centers in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, but not in Japan, and so the court can't compel it to make the changes. Google told CNET it had no comment on the case, but is ...

Nearly 70 percent of popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems for items and services to avoid hefty commission fees from U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc, a ...

Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement ...