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EU: Amazon says it will cooperate with antitrust probe

By  |  July 17, 2019

According to a report from Reuters, US online retailer Amazon announced on Wednesday, July 17, that it would cooperate fully with EU antitrust regulators investigating its use of merchants’ data.

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    The European Commission stated the investigation would look into two issues; Amazon’s standard contracts with marketplace sellers, and the role of data in selecting winners of the “buy box” which allows buyers to add items from a specific retailer into their shopping carts.

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