TNB Tech Minute: Japan Accuses Google of Being Anticompetitive
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Brought to you by the RE/MAX Collection. Visit RE/MAX.com/luxury. Each office independently owned and operated. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, April 15th. I'm Victoria Craig for The Wall Street Journal. Japan's antitrust regulator has ordered Google to stop what it says are monopolistic practices in mobile search. It's a first-of-its-kind directive from Japan's Fair Trade Commission to a U.S. tech giant.

The regulator said since 2020, Google has prevented competition by pre-installing its own search platforms on the home screens of Android devices. Google said it's disappointed by the findings and believes its agreements with Japanese providers have boosted competition. But it said it would review the regulator's decision to determine its next steps.

Elsewhere, some of America's biggest banks are pulling back on sending information electronically to their regulator. People familiar with the matter say that's due to ongoing security concerns after the Office of the Controller of the Currency said it's investigating a recent email hack.

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Bank of New York Mellon are looking at other ways to send sensitive information. The OCC posted on its website a notice about the hack in February, but people familiar with the situation said some of the banks only learned about the incident from media reports and are still largely in the dark about what information may have been disclosed to hackers.

And finally, Johnson & Johnson says it expects President Trump's tariffs primarily on the company's medical technology products to add roughly $400 million to its costs this year. The health care giant's CEO said his company will work with the administration to prevent potential disruptions to its supply chain, but he said the best way to increase the supply of U.S.-made medtech and pharmaceuticals is through tax policy rather than tariffs.

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