Amazon, Facebook, Google defend practices amid US lawmakers’ probe


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  • Wednesday, 07 Aug 2019

Google maintained that it strives to give users the most relevant information as quickly as possible, which often directs them to other sites. — Bloomberg

Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google defended their business practices to US lawmakers conducting a broad antitrust inquiry, seeking to underscore their companies face stiff competition in their respective industries.

Amazon, for example, argued that much of the data it keeps regarding third-party merchants who use its online marketplace is public and that analysing aggregate sales data to bolster its private-label strategy is a common practice in the retail industry.

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