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Philippine watchdog keen to avoid 'killer' digital-platform mergers, official says

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 14 Sep 2021 01:22
  • 14 Sep 2021 01:22
The Philippine antitrust regulator is scrutinizing potentially anticompetitive deals involving digital platforms amid the pandemic, an official said yesterday, ahead of the commission regaining its powers to probe any potentially anticompetitive deal.
“We are looking very closely at the digital platforms involving food deliveries and other transport services. There has

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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