FTC demands data about acquisitions from Google, Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission has issued special orders to five big tech companies -- Alphabet's Google , Amazon.com , Apple , Facebook and Microsoft -- to provide information about mergers that were too small to report to antitrust agencies, the agency said on Tuesday.The orders were issued as part of a study that the agency is doing into whether the companies buy up nascent or potential competitors, the agency said in a statement."This initiative will enable the..