Google, Apple ties are target of advertisers’ UK complaint


The US Department of Justice’s lawsuit last year alleges that Google and Apple work as ‘one company’ on search. — AFP

Google and Apple Inc’s “symbiotic relationship” should get scrutiny from the UK’s antitrust regulator, a group of online advertisers said.

Marketers for an Open Web said it has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to look at concerns that the two companies “are not competing head to head”, citing US regulatory filings on agreements between the tech giants that they say are a form of active collaboration.

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