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28 Sep 2022

CNBC: Amazon dominates the $113 billion smart home market — here’s how it uses the data it collects

by Reggie Rucker | Date: 28 Sep 2022 | posted in: Media Coverage, Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Stacy Mitchell, co-director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, explains how Amazon is purchasing its way into consumers’ homes to gain greater visibility and market dominance.… Read More

Amazon, antimonopoly, corporate power, iRobot
22 Aug 2022

In The Atlantic: Amazon’s Dangerous New Acquisition

by Luke Gannon and Ron Knox | Date: 22 Aug 2022 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In early August, Amazon announced it would pay $1.7 billion to take over iRobot. In a new essay in The Atlantic, Ron Knox writes that if the deal is allowed to happen, Amazon would buy its way to dominance in yet another industry. … Read More

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