eBay.com filed a lawsuit againts Amazon on Wednesday, October 17, in which it contends Amazon illegally stole sellers from its own marketplace. The Wall Street Journal, citing the lawsuit which was filed in Santa Clara County in California, reported eBay alleges Amazon has over the past several years “perpetrated a scheme to infiltrate and exploit […]
The All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA) on Friday, October 5, filed a petition with the Competition Commission of India alleging that Amazon favors merchants that it partly owns, such as Cloudtail and Appario, which Amazon denied on Monday. “Amazon has an equal relationship with all the sellers on our marketplace,” Amazon India spokeswoman Bhumika […]
EU antitrust regulators are asking retailers and manufacturers whether Amazon’s sales of own brand products similar to theirs have harmed their business, reported CNBC. Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, told CNBC’s Sara Eisen that one of her agency’s primary goals in the Amazon investigation to protect consumers by ensuring competition and innovation. EU […]
The European Commission, as part of its probe into Amazon’s data practices, has sent Amazon merchants a 16 page form to be filled out by October 9 asking if Amazon has recently started to sell products under its own brand that are “identical or very similar” to ones merchants have offered on Amazon’s website and […]
On Wednesday, September 26, EC Commissioner Margrethe Vestager sat down at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York and discussed in an interview a number of topics currently of interest in the EU and in the US, primarily focusing on big tech. When asked about the recently announced probe into Amazon’s data practices related […]
Amazon, along with private equity firm Samara Capital, will acquire Indian supermarket chain More for an undisclosed sum. According to DealStreetAsia, a source said the transaction was valued at around ₹4,200 crore (more than $583 million USD). The acquisition of More’s parent company, Aditya Birla Group, will be carried out by Samara Capital’s arm Witzig […]
Amazon’s business model is under the spotlight in Europe after the EU’s antitrust watchdog launched a preliminary investigation into how the platform uses data about merchants, reported the Wall Street Journal. The informal probe concerns the e-commerce group’s dual role as a competitor while simultaneously acting as host to third-party merchants, who sell goods on […]
On Thursday Amazon’ founder Jeff Bezos said he was not worried about the potential for anti-trust scrutiny of the company as it becomes an important economic force. Speaking at a Washington business gathering, Bezos said it was normal to draw scrutiny but he did not anticipate any actions that would prevent the internet giant from innovating and […]
AT&T, Twitter, Alphabet’s Google and three other major web and internet service companies plan to testify before a US Senate panel later in September to lay out their consumer data privacy practices. According to a report in Reuters, the companies – which also include Amazon, Apple and Charter Communications – will appear before the Senate […]
September 2018 CPI Europe Column edited by Anna Tzanaki (Competition Policy International) & Juan Delgado (Global Economics Group) presents: How to Reform the Law on Abusive Practices: The study that will serve as a basis for reform in Germany (and Europe?) By Rupprecht Podszun (Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf)1 Click here for a PDF version of the article Germany […]