The chief executives of four of the world’s largest tech companies, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc, Apple and Alphabet’s Google, plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals. Bezos also lays out how small sellers have succeeded on Amazon’s third-party marketplace, a practice that has come under scrutiny from lawmakers. In his prepared testimony, Zuckerberg argued that Facebook competes against other companies appearing at the hearing and against others globally. Zuckerberg will also defend Facebook’s acquisitions by saying the social media platform helped companies like WhatsApp and Instagram grow. Apple’s Tim Cook will tell the committee the company “does not have a dominant market share in any market where we do business.

Source: Standard Digital July 29, 2020 12:16 UTC