Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are set to appear before Congress on July 27 in an antitrust hearing

• Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the US House of Representatives on July 27.
• The hearing is part of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee's investigation into the dominance of large tech firms.
• The tech executives will be allowed to appear virtually for the hearing.
• The four big tech companies are also facing probes from the US Justice Department.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of Amazon.com, Apple, Alphabet's Google, and Facebook will appear before a U.S. House of Representatives panel on July 27, the committee said in a statement on Monday.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook will appear before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee as part of its probe into the companies, the statement said.

They will be allowed to appear virtually.

"As we have said from the start, their testimony is essential for us to complete this investigation," Jerrold Nadler, the House judiciary panel chairman, and David Cicilline, the House antitrust subcommittee chairman, said in a statement.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported the big four tech platforms' heads would testify before U.S. Congress. Lawmakers are expected to release a report on their antitrust investigation in the coming weeks.

The statement also comes after Cicilline confirmed to tech journalist Kara Swisher on July 1 that the four tech CEOs would appear in a late July antitrust hearing.

The CEOs from Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet said back in June that they would be willing to testify before Congress, according to reports from The New York Times, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post. The appearances of Zuckerberg and Pichai were contingent on the attendance of the other CEOs, Bloomberg reported last month.

The U.S. Justice Department is also probing the big four tech platforms. Facebook and Amazon are also facing inquiries by the Federal Trade Commission, while U.S. states attorneys general are looking at Facebook and Google.

(Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Tom Brown)