Britain's Competition Watchdog to Probe Apple, Google Over Browsers

The U.K.’s competition regulator wants to investigate market power it says Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google exert over some mobile-device software, ramping up global antitrust scrutiny of the largest U.S. technology companies. The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it intends to initiate so-called market investigations into how the companies control web browsers for mobile devices, as well as complaints that Apple restricts cloud gaming on its devices.