The Japan Fair Trade Commission plans to issue a cease-and-desist order against Google over what it says is a violation of the antimonopoly law by forcing smartphone manufacturers to include the ...

On April 15, 2025, Google announced that it will stop using country-specific top-level domains and start redirecting to 'google.com.' From now on, if you access domains such as 'google.co.jp' or ...

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.’s Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, just ahead of high-stakes trade negotiations with the US ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Google is in the process of consolidating the many international domain names that lead to google.com, eliminating sites such as google.co.jp and google.ru for Japan and Russia. The company says it no ...

Google has submitted a rectification plan to the Japan Fair Trade Commission in response to the issue of suspected violation of the Antimonopoly Act by withholding some of the technologies necessary ...

As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers. Last year at a ...