The European Commission says Amazon's $1.4B iRobot acquisition may restrict competition; Amazon plans to work to address its concerns; IRBT drops ~18%
On 6 July 2023, the Commission opened an in-depth investigation … Jay Peters / The Verge : Amazon's $1.7 billion deal to buy iRobot is running into some objections Elizabeth Montalbano / Computerworld...
The UK CMA clears Amazon's proposed $1.7B iRobot deal, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”
So yeah, no competition impact indeed. Tweets: @cmagovuk : We have cleared Amazon's $1.7bn purchase of iRobot. Our full text decision on why we cleared the merger will be published in due course. Find...
Across the US, towns and cities are feeling the impact of Amazon's belt-tightening, often having welcomed the company with incentives, as pandemic growth fades
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post : Tweets: @richard_florida , @carlquintanilla , and @damianpaletta Tweets: Richard Florida / @richard_florida : Shot: “The big dog's gonna eat first & the puppies...
Amazon's plans for four large French distribution centres have been blocked or abandoned in the past six months over environmental and political concerns
Campaigners are successfully winning support in French courts to block Amazon.com Inc.'s plans to construct distribution facilities in the country. Tweets: @aggichristiane Tweets: Aggi / @aggichristia...
Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week
from apps down to infrastructure — the higher the bar for banning content/users. Amazon booting Parler off AWS > Apple/Google banning Parler from app stores > Twitter banning Trump Would be more worri...
Sources: Amazon has decided to move its annual Prime Day event to September and has started allowing unlimited nonessential goods shipments to warehouses
E-commerce giant also allows nonessential goods shipments, indication of wider variety of products — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.25% …
Amazon blocks marketplace sellers from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments indefinitely over FedEx's “delivery performance”
Amazon cites a decline in FedEx performance heading into the final holiday push — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .47% is blocking its third-party sellers …
Trump confirms he will look into Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract, set to be awarded to Microsoft or Amazon, after “tremendous complaints from other companies”
> https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @JenniferJJacobs Brian Fung / @b_fung : Via pool, Trump told reporters that “great companies” like Microsoft and Oracle are complaining about the Pentagon's cloud c...
Sources: Amazon restricted sellers' access to customer data and fired some workers in US and India for allegedly accessing internal data that was then misused
Merchants find new ways to sabotage rivals during the all-important holiday shopping season — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .42% …
Despite the backlash from politicians and the press, most Americans view big tech favorably
Matt Rosoff / CNBC : Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts and @cnbc Tweets: Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts : Reality check: 88% of public views GOOG favorably, 72% for AMZN http://www.cnbc.com/... <- hurdle for...