A federal judge has ruled that the core state antitrust and consumer protection claims against Amazon over its Price Parity Restriction (PPR) can proceed, finding sufficient allegations of direct ...

Last week, House lawmakers released a critical report on four of the conglomerates comprising Big Tech, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, summarizing what it alleges are the companies’ ...

Amazon is fighting antitrust allegations yet again. Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the e-commerce giant, accusing the company of stifling ...

The list of companies acquired by Amazon, now a leader in multiple lines of business, seems endless: Zappos. Whole Foods. MGM Studios. Ring. In total, it snapped up 280 firms between 1998 and 2022.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of abusing its retail market power to stifle competition faces hurdles in court, testing the scope of U.S. antitrust law and ...

Amazon has been warned by German antitrust regulators that its pricing mechanisms may run afoul of competition laws. Amazon uses algorithms and statistical models to calculate certain price caps for ...

The Federal Trade Commission recently obtained a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon, with the FTC alleging that Amazon used deceptive tactics to enroll millions of customers in Prime without clear ...

Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.