The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to look into hundreds of small acquisitions made by Apple, Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft over the past decade is a significant expansion of antitrust scrutiny. The parameters of the investigation pass over transformative deals such as Facebook’s $1bn purchase of the photo-sharing app Instagram, Microsoft’s $27bn purchase of professional social network LinkedIn or Amazon’s $13.7bn purchase of the grocery chain Whole Foods Market — all of which were reviewed at the time. Read More...
The Federal Trade Commission’s decision to look into hundreds of small acquisitions made by Apple, Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft over the past decade is a significant expansion of antitrust scrutiny. The parameters of the investigation pass over transformative deals such as Facebook’s $1bn purchase of the photo-sharing app Instagram, Microsoft’s $27bn purchase of professional social network LinkedIn or Amazon’s $13.7bn purchase of the grocery chain Whole Foods Market — all of which were reviewed at the time.
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