Filing: the FTC opens an investigation into Amazon’s $1.7B iRobot acquisition, requesting documents from both companies; investigations typically take a year (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)

Josh Sisco / Politico:
Sources: the FTC has begun a review of Amazon’s $1.7B takeover of iRobot to assess if the deal violates antitrust law and illegally boosts Amazon’s market share  —  The FTC has officially begun a review of Amazon’s $1.7 billion takeover of robot vacuum maker iRobot to decide …

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the FTC is investigating Amazon’s $3.9B deal to buy One Medical  —  Probe adds to issues Amazon faces at antitrust enforcement agency  —  Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other  —  Created with sketchtool.

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
The FTC says Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy cannot avoid testifying in an ongoing investigation into Prime membership, after Amazon pushed back against the probe  —  Commissioners deny company’s request to quash subpoenas and pare back investigation  —  Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
The UK’s CMA plans to investigation Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition, following similar investigations by the European Commission and FTC  —  The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a so-called “phase 1” investigation into Broadcom’s proposed $61 billion deal …

Samuel Stolton / Politico:
Sources: the EU is set to launch an in-depth probe into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal after Microsoft opted not to file remedies to antitrust enforcers  —  The European Commission is set to launch an in-depth investigation into Microsoft’s record $69 billion splash …

Reuters:
Sources: in late 2020, the US DOJ asked Binance to provide extensive records on its anti-money laundering rules and communications by CEO Changpeng Zhao  —  U.S. federal prosecutors asked Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, to provide extensive internal records …