{"id":690,"date":"2021-08-02T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=690"},"modified":"2021-08-02T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:15:16","slug":"eu-investigates-facebooks-proposed-purchase-of-kustomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"EU investigates Facebook\u2019s proposed purchase of Kustomer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 European Union regulators are opening an in-depth investigation of Facebook\u2019s plan to buy Kustomer over concerns that the deal would stifle competition for customer relationship management software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0EU Commission said\u00a0Monday it\u2019s also investigating the acquisition because of worries that Facebook would get more data for personalized ads, handing it even more of an advantage in the online advertising market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The social network announced the deal in November as it seeks to make more money from its WhatsApp and Messenger chat services, which have thrived during the pandemic, by adding ways for businesses to interact with customers. Kustomer provides software that help companies manage online conversations with customers over various channels by putting them into a single dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur investigation aims to ensure that the transaction will not harm businesses or consumers, and that any data that Facebook gets access to does not distort competition,\u201d EU Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, the bloc\u2019s top competition watchdog, said in a press statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.K. competition watchdog began looking into the deal last week over concerns it would result in a \u201csubstantial lessening\u201d of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 European Union regulators are opening an  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}