The lawsuit is likely to target key elements of Amazon's retail-marketplace business, and the FTC will suggest 'structural remedies' that could break up the...
As the Justice Department and and Alphabet Inc.’s Google trade legal haymakers in federal court this month, at least one more heavyweight antitrust clash between the federal regulators and a tech titan is on the near horizon.
Indeed, antitrust season could be in full bloom this fall and next year. Despite a series of high-profile congressional hearings, federal lawmakers have not passed meaningful tech legislation in the four years since the Trump administration announced a crackdown on Big Tech. For years, the FTC has been scrutinizing whether Amazon favors its own products over those of competitors on its digital platforms. The FTC also has studied the Amazon Prime subscription service’s bundling practices.
In prior actions to block acquisitions by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META, +0.49% and by Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.44%, the agency expressed its concerns about the outsize influence of a handful of tech companies on digital marketplaces. In both cases, the FTC was unsuccessful in blocking the deals.
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