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 allegedly coerced major vendors into convincing rival retailers like Walmart, Target and Home Depot to raise prices ...

Antitrust advocates and book publishers have been raising the alarm for years about Amazon’s market dominance. In 2020, a ...

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.

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 ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is heading into one ...

(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 ...

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.com Inc. coerced Levi Strauss & Co. and other prominent brands into an alleged price-fixing scheme that influenced costs for a wide variety of goods on retail websites operated by Walmart Inc., ...