On Tuesday, Germany’s antitrust watchdog said it has launched a new investigation into whether U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc is exploiting its market dominance. “In a first step, we are looking at whether Amazon is of outstanding, cross-market importance for… Read More ›
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LG Chem’s battery unit’s stock market debut in the offing
On Thursday, South Korea’s LG Chem said, it plans on making its battery business as a separate business entity. The company supplies electric car batteries to Tesla Inc and General Motors. By separating its battery making business, which will be… Read More ›
Italy’s antitrust regulator launches probe into 5 amazon businesses
Italy’s antitrust body has launched a probe into Amazon Services Europe, Amazon Europe Core, Amazon EU, Amazon Italia Services and Amazon Italia Logistica. On Tuesday, in a significant development, Italy’s antitrust authority disclosed it has begun a probe into five… Read More ›
WEKO stands by legality of service-after-sales agreements
Basing itself on the conclusions drawn an EU court, the Swiss competition authority has made it clear that such agreements are not indicative of an abuse of market dominance nor were they considered as unacceptable. On Tuesday, WEKO, the… Read More ›
Amazon to slashes prices of groceries from Monday
The price war in the retail groceries market is now set to intensify. With Amazon.com successfully navigating the landmine of antitrust scrutiny for it’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc, the shares of rival groceries have started to tumble on… Read More ›