The CMA has launched an investigation into Google's services to ensure fair competition and consumer protection.

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its

A British probe into Google has opened by a watchdog agency as its first ivestigation under a new law over Google's search and advertising services on some European consumers.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Google’s search services under new digital market rules. The CMA aims to determine if Google’s search and search advertising services should be designated with strategic market status (SMS).

Google’s online search empire faces is being targeted with a fresh probe under the United Kingdom’s sweeping new online competition law, officials announced on Tuesday.

Britain’s competition watchdog says it’s investigating Google’s search ad business, adding to global scrutiny that the U.S. tech giant is facing

It will be the first investigation under a new digital markets competition regime that could force the company to change its conduct.

Britain will use new regulatory powers to investigate Google's search services to see how they impact consumers and businesses, including advertisers and rivals, following U.S. calls to break up the tech giant.

Britain's decision to force out the chair of its antitrust regulator after he failed to prioritise the Labour government's growth agenda indicates the country's attempt to rein in Big Tech could be over.

Google’s “strategic market status” (SMS) is being evaluated by the Competition and Markets Authority in accordance with the recently passed Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC) in the United Kingdom. The regulator would have the ...

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Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising business.