Amazon's iRobot Roomba acquisition under formal EU investigation - The Verge

TL;DR

European Union regulators have opened an official investigation into Amazon’s proposed $1. ” The European Commission is also looking at how getting access to iRobot users’ data may give Amazon an advantage “in the market for online marketplace services to third-party sellers (and related advertising services) and / or other data-related markets. As well as being forced to sell Giphy, Meta also had a fight on its hands to acquire VR startup Within (though it eventually succeeded)

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