An independent inquiry group in the British Competition and Markets Authority on Friday recommended an investigation into Apple and Google over their dominance of mobile web browsers and apps in the country.

A UK inquiry has found that Apple’s policies are "holding back innovation in the browsers we use to access the web on mobile phones."

LONDON (AP) — Apple and Google aren’t giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year. The Competition ...

LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator should consider investigating Apple and Google's mobile ecosystem activities using new digital markets powers, the watchdog's inquiry group has suggested. In a report by the CMA published on Friday ...

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. are set to face a formal investigation over their dominance of web browsers on cell phones, the UK’s antitrust regulator said in a provisional decision aimed at curbing the tech giants’ stranglehold on mobile operating systems.

Apple could be holding back innovation in smartphone browsers, according to a British regulatory report, which recommended that Apple's and Google's duopoly in mobile ecosystems should be investigated with its new powers.