U.S. regulators said they would probe past mergers by Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, seeking to study the ways tech giants gobbled up their rivals — and if their acquisitions may have skirted federal antitrust laws. The new effort by the Federal Trade Commission will require the five companies to provide information about the smaller players they’ve purchased over the past 10 years, including documents for deals that may not have been large enough to warrant deep, closer inspection by government watchdogs at the time.
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