Amazon Must Promise to Rank iRobot Rivals Fairly, EU Watchdog Warns
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Amazon.com Inc. must pledge to fairly rank rival robot vacuum cleaners sold on its online marketplace if it is to secure European Union approval for its $1.4 billion buyout of Roomba maker iRobot Corp., the bloc's interim competition chief Didier Reynders warned. His comments follow last week's move by the European Commission to issue a formal statement of objections cataloging potential reasons to block the deal unless Amazon comes up with an offer to fix them. “The main issue is to be sure to have a fair treatment of all the different actors,” Didier Reynders, the EU's acting commissioner for competition, told reporters after an event in Brussels. Reynders, who's standing in for competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager while she runs for the top job at the European Investm...