June 12th, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough 
As reported by the Huffington Post, the FTC has decided to go ahead and launch a full scale investigation in to Apple’s business practices in the mobile market. This is an escalation from some probes the Justice Department has previously had in to various business dealings by Apple. In fact, it seems that Justice and the FTC have been haggling over which agency will head up the investigation.
Apple’s policy of restricting software licensing to certain companies is at the heart of the investigation. Google, for example, has been very vocal in protests that their AdMob advertising service being blocked (and essentially cutting out any Google advertising from the iPhone and iPad platforms) is anti-competition.
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