Amazon's testimony in antitrust proceedings for the now-abandoned merger between Staples and Office Depot highlights its ambitions for the B2B market. As Amazon searches for a fourth pillar aside from Prime, cloud computing division Amazon Web Services and its third-party Marketplace, court testimony by its senior executive in the antitrust litigation offers an insight to the e-commerce giant's interest in the industrial distribution vertical, RBC Capital Markets analyst Deane Dray wrote in a Thursday note.
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