"Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators that puts it under closer watch by the Federal Trade Commission,... The move is the result of the FTC and the Department of Justice, the U.S. government’s leading antitrust enforcement agencies, quietly divvying up competition oversight of two of the country’s top tech companies... The FTC’s plans for Amazon and the Justice Department’s interest in Google are not immediately clear. But the kind of arrangement brokered between the Justice Department and the FTC typically presages more serious antitrust scrutiny, the likes of which many Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have sought out of fear that tech companies have become too big and powerful..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...between-us-regulators/?utm_term=.e049a9551a53
"Amazon Faces Widening U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny in Cloud Business FTC said to broaden Amazon inquiry beyond online retail... U.S. antitrust enforcers have broadened their scrutiny of Amazon.com Inc. beyond its retail operations to include its massive cloud-computing business..." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ning-u-s-antitrust-scrutiny-in-cloud-business
"Visualizing the Size of Amazon" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/amazon-worlds-most-valuable-retailer/
