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- The UK's CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- As crypto markets tumbled, strict US regulatory rules on risky bank assets largely insulated Wall Street from the chaos, while retail investors were hit hard (Emily Flitter/New York Times)
- The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business and sellers using its Prime services (Sky News)
- Meta's Stephane Kasriel says the company still plans to roll out NFT support to help creators monetize through cross-platform "memberships" and "subscriptions" (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to add a €10/month fee for non-US accounts that are inactive for over one year with a balance below €200, starting August 1 (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Amazon will share more data with rivals and offer buyers a wider choice of products to assuage EU antitrust regulators, concluding a three-year probe (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
- Amazon partners with Just Eat Takeaway to offer a free annual Grubhub+ subscription to Prime members in the US; Amazon also receives equity in Grubhub (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- DOJ hires Microsoft's former chief economist Susan Athey as its top antitrust economist; sources say Athey will likely be recused from Apple and Google cases (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- Toronto-based crypto lender Voyager Digital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, estimating it has 100,000 creditors and $1B-$10B in assets (CoinDesk)
- Report: Google halts Play Store updates to KakaoTalk, a popular messaging app in South Korea, after Kakao continued using an external payment link in its app (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
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