The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation of Amazon to determine whether the company is using sales data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller sellers on its Marketplace platform.

Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust chief, said the investigation is warranted because European consumers are increasingly shopping online and e-commerce has boosted retail competition and brought more choice and better prices.

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