ACCC to probe tech giants’ ‘web’ of services and impact on consumers and competitions

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched a new inquiry, probing how the growing “web” of services offered by tech giants in Australia presents potential consumer harm and competition issues.

In the paper released on Wednesday, the competition regulator announced that the next stage’s focus of its digital platform inquiry will look around the periphery of offerings from Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft.

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