By Shagun Singhal and Khushbu Turki Introduction The Competition Act, 2002 (‘the Act’) sets out the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements under Section 3(1) of the Act.[1] Even though the Act does not explicitly use terms like horizontal or vertical agreements, it prohibits these under Section 3(3) and 3(4), respectively.[2] The Act provides for five types […]
Category: Antitrust
By Vishal Pathania In a digital economy or data-driven economy, data occupies the central position in new data-driven businesses. Collecting, storing, analysing, and working with data play an important role in the data-centred markets. In fact, data has become a significant source of market power.[1] This is the reason why many data-driven companies such as […]
By Aarya Deshpande and Sourabh Balwani Background The Indian e-commerce industry has seen phenomenal growth in the past few years and is expected to vitalise its accretion owing to broadening internet penetration and augmentation of smartphone users in the country. The growth of the e-commerce sector began in 2009, but has soared manifold since 2014, […]
By Gautami Govindarajan Jeff Bezos may be the richest man in modern history, but at whose cost? Amazon has risen to a position of market dominance, but behind the glittering deals and soaring profits is a history of abuse and exploitation of labour. Violations of Labour and Human Rights Amazon has been repeatedly found to […]
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