Amazon's iRobot purchase sucks up formal competition concerns in EU | TechCrunch
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European Union regulators have sent Amazon a formal statement of objections setting out competition concerns over its proposed acquisition of robot vacuum European Union regulators have sent Amazon a formal statement of objections setting out competition concerns over its proposed acquisition of robot vacuum maker, iRobot.

lol. Amazon itself should be “sparking concerns”

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What they should be is broken the fuck up. No company should have their hands in so many different pies.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter that they’re doing all this other stuff. But, because they also own the online store too, that gives them the power to be anti competitive. If they didn’t, none of these other businesses would likely work

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