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Retail Foot Traffic Dips As COVID Cases Rise

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Up until then, retail levels were improving somewhat since the all-time low in April while the country was on lockdown. But customers have begun retreating from retail for the second time due to the increase in cases. The decline comes alongside companies like Apple ‘s decisions to re-close stores.

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Big Tech Antitrust Hearing Rescheduled For July 29

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are now scheduled to appear before a Congressional subcommittee exploring competitive practices among Big Tech Wednesday (July 29) instead of Monday (July 27) as originally planned. John Lewis of Georgia.

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House Questions Big Tech Over Antitrust Concerns

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And, separately, in an appearance before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google executives testified about their business practices. Sutton countered that retailers also tend to employ that model. There was a separate panel on Google and censorship. In commentary, Rep. percent in 2018.

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EU Begins Antitrust Probe Into Amazon, Fines Qualcomm

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Vestager is at the close of her five-year term as competition commissioner, during which she took on tech giants, including Google , which was fined more than 8 billion euros ($9 billion) in three separate antitrust cases; and Apple , which had to pay 13 billion euros ($14.6 billion) in back taxes to the Irish government.

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Postmates Is Now Available In 60 Percent Of U.S. Households

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The company listed Providence, Rhode Island; Colombia, South Carolina; Little Rock, Arkansas and Athens, Georgia as newly-added service areas. Last year, Postmates launched its first-ever grocery product, Fresh, which delivers curated groceries and retail essentials in minutes.

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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) For deliveries, the company does milk-run logistics.

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At House Hearing, Smaller Tech Players Claim Unfair Biz Tactics from Big Tech

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David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. “It In his remarks, Barnett estimated that in 2019, his company lost an estimated $10 million in revenue as a result of not selling through Amazon Retail and Amazon’s actions. Said Hansson: “Help us, Congress.

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