Google faulted for platform dominance
South African investigation finds it distorts marketplace competition
03 August 2023 - 05:00
Anticompetitive oversight has been ramping up around the world. Lawmakers in the US and the EU have tried to counter the dominance of big tech firms, and in South Africa, too, the matter has received attention — the Competition Commission released its “Online Intermediation Platforms Market Inquiry” report this week after two years of investigation of the companies’ competition behaviour on the internet.
Tech giant Google “distorts platform competition”, while e-commerce site Takealot’s marketplace for other sellers is a “conflict of interest”, the report finds. Other findings include:..
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