Opinion: Amazon needs a leash

For too many retailers, Amazon has the power to control their destiny, for good or ill. — Bloomberg

The New Yorker and the Atlantic have never been known for their business coverage, so when both magazines published long articles about Amazon.com Inc in their current issues it signaled that something is in the air. That something is antitrust.

More precisely, what’s in the air is the question of what the government should do to rein in the tremendous power of the big four tech companies: Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Apple Inc and Amazon.