Tag: Amazon
German Watchdog Subjects Amazon To Stricter Rules
Germany’s antitrust watchdog said on Wednesday that U.S. ecommerce giant Amazon’s position is of outstanding, cross-market importance for competition, a classification that allows the...
Amazon Forges Deal With Grubhub
Today in the connected economy, Amazon makes a deal with Grubhub that could give it as much as a 15% stake in the food...
UK Probes Amazon Over Sales Practices
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into whether Amazon “has a dominant position in the U.K. and whether it is...
Amazon Looks To End EC Probe With Data Sharing, Rival Boosting
Amazon will share marketplace data with its sellers and boost rivals’ product visibility on its platform if the European Commission will close its 2020...
Small Businesses Urge US Congress To Support Antitrust Bills
Dozens of companies and business organizations sent a letter to US Congress members on Monday, urging them to support a bill that would rein...
Amazon India Seller Says Antitrust Raid Detained Employees
A former top seller for Amazon in India, Cloudtail, has accused India's antitrust agency of illegally detaining its employees during a raid over suspected competition...
UK Watchdog To Directly Oversee Amazon, Microsoft Cloud Services
The UK Treasury released a policy paper on Wednesday (June 8) proposing a new regulatory framework that would provide the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial...
Amazon Exec Tried Lobbying Third-Party Sellers For Support Against Big Tech...
An Amazon vice president took to a popular forum used by third-party merchants to encourage them to reject landmark legislation targeting the power of...
Amazon Files Second Motion To Dismiss Third-Party Seller Pricing Suit
Amazon has filed a second motion to dismiss a Western District of Washington case that alleges its third-party seller policies are anticompetitive insofar as...
Biden Administration And Amazon’s Bezos Face Off Over Inflation
White House and Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos squared off on Monday May 16 over the Biden administration's handling of US inflation and its plans...