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The Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to concern a cease-and-desist order towards Google over what it says is a violation of the antimonopoly regulation by forcing smartphone producers to incorporate the corporate’s search app on their smartphones.
Such an order can be the primary to be issued within the nation towards any of a gaggle of U.S. international know-how corporations collectively known as GAFA — Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — earlier than Facebook modified its identify to Meta.
The fee is accusing Google of forcing smartphone producers in Japan to signal a contract wherein they need to preinstall its Google search app and have it positioned in a particular place on the units’ screens to ensure that them to have the ability to entry the Google Play app retailer.
