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By Foo Yun Chee

Jul 18 2019 6:07AM

Fears Amazon runs a marketplace and competes with it unfairly at the same time.

EU opens Amazon antitrust probe over merchant data use

Amazon's use of merchants' data triggered an EU antitrust investigation on Wednesday, as regulatory concerns mount around the world on how tech giants exploit customer information to reinforce their market power. U.S. tech firms Amazon, Google and Facebook have been in the regulatory spotlight ...

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