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Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors
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 competition from smaller firms.
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 competition from smaller firms. To prevent unfair and anticompetitive treatment of software suppliers, the law will prohibit Apple and Google from conducting product screening outside normal assessments on companies wishing to transition apps from one store to another. The fair trade body in April established a new section that is primarily responsible for policing and investigating large tech firms and hired more part-time IT experts from the private sector, tripling the number to around 60.
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