The UK’s competition regulator intensified its scrutiny by targeting Apple and Google’s mobile services, urging the companies to update parts of their app stores and related systems. Earlier this week,

Apple and Google face new rules governing how they run their smartphone software and app stores in the UK, as Britain’s antitrust agency looks to impose new European-style controls on the Big Tech companies.

Britain on Wednesday told Apple and Google to be fairer in how they distribute apps on their mobile platforms, setting out possible interventions as it plans to designate the U.S. tech companies with strategic market status over their duopoly.