Amazon battles regulators in bid to stay dominant in India's e-comm market

The tussle with governments is a familiar territory for Amazon since it, along with Apple, Google and Facebook, face potentially similar charges in the US

Several regulators are being drawn into the battle being fought by Amazon, Walmart-owned Flipkart and Reliance Retail for a dominant position in the fast growing Indian e-commerce market.

This overlap is significant. Among all the geographies where Amazon is fighting regulators, India is the only place where its lines are also tangled in a major corpor­ate battle, this one with India’s largest company by market capitalisation over the ac­quisition of Mumbai-based Future Group’s retail chain, the country’s second largest. No other corporate entity in any country offers a challenge to Amazon’s hegemony in a way Reliance Industries does — and