The US President has announced plans to look into the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, potentially to be awarded Amazon.

The draft underscored India’s intent to examine every aspect of e-commerce regulation from data localisation to antitrust rules, tightening restrictions on global giants like Amazon and Google.

The land of sponsored posts and freebies is still very much the Wild West without a clear sheriff, but social media companies may ultimately have the biggest interest in keeping things clean.

A circular economy incentive to prohibit brands from discarding unsold clothing means luxury and high street retailers need to rethink their practices.

Amazon said it had settled a long-running dispute with French tax authorities, who have been seeking nearly $249 million from the online retail giant.

The ruling could set a precedent for whether luxury products makers can prevent their products being sold by retailers on online platforms across Europe, a market worth billions of euros.

Further investigations in the e-commerce sector would be launched by the European Commission after it discovered business practices that restrict competition.

BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.