{"id":13910,"date":"2019-10-22T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=13910"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:38:44","slug":"european-commission-launches-antitrust-investigation-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/european-commission-launches-antitrust-investigation-against-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission launches antitrust investigation against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation against Amazon that could result in USD 23 billion in fines. The investigation stems from the fact that Amazon is itself a seller and also serves as a platform for others to sell. Authorities are concerned that Amazon collects information on the activity of independent sellers, which it can then use to gain a competitive advantage and adversely affect competition. 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The investigation stems from the fact that Amazon is itself a seller and also serves as a platform for others to sell. Authorities are concerned that Amazon collects information on the activity of independent sellers, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,10],"tags":[449,197,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13911,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions\/13911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}