Watch out, Amazon and other tech giants. The White House has picked Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Khan, 32, was confirmed by the Senate earlier Tuesday… Read More
Federal lawmakers introduced a wave of legislation Friday that collectively seeks to change the way large tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook do business and dominate their… Read More
An antitrust lawsuit filed against Amazon by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine this week promises to test the evidence and allegations that have been marshaled against the tech giant… Read More
A new lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general alleges that Amazon illegally manipulates the e-commerce market to its own advantage by penalizing third-party sellers that offer products at lower… Read More
Kicking off in federal court today, the closely watched battle between the makers of Fortnite and Apple will include an attorney who is well known for her role in one… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange in March that accused Zillow of anticompetitive behavior related to how… Read More
Year-over-year quarterly growth of 44% would be significant for any company, but when the underlying numbers are this big, it starts to qualify as astonishing. Amazon’s first-quarter sales of $108.5… Read More
A decades-long policy of lax regulation of the technology industry could be coming to a close — and Lina Khan is ready to usher in a new era. The rising… Read More
Microsoft’s pending $19.7 billion deal to buy Nuance Communications is the latest in what’s become a shopping spree for the Redmond, Wash. company. The strategy seems to have gained the… Read More
As Joe Biden settles into the Oval Office, tech companies in the Seattle region and elsewhere are watching with a sense of optimism to see what the new administration will… Read More
When President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in Wednesday, they inherited a unique opportunity to rein in the technology industry. In addition to bipartisan support for… Read More
When President-elect Joe Biden and the incoming Congress take the helm this January, they will face several unresolved tech policy issues. The Trump administration is leaving behind pending antitrust actions… Read More
Amazon’s antitrust problems just hopped the pond. European competition authorities, in preliminary findings issued Tuesday morning, accused the Seattle-based tech giant of “systematically relying on non-public business data of independent… Read More
The past year has brought a pandemic, a national reckoning over race, plus antitrust investigations and charges against major tech companies, with massive swaths of the tech workforce working from… Read More
The technology industry is pushing local journalism over the edge, according to a new report from the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington state. The report released… Read More
“The day there’s a vaccine announced, that people really believe in, will be our highest booking day in history.” That was Peter Kern, the CEO of Expedia Group, the Seattle-based… Read More
Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern says he hopes the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust complaint against Google ultimately changes the search giant’s behavior, and creates a fair marketplace for the online… Read More
The antitrust complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department against Google on Tuesday morning spotlights the difficult position in which Yelp, Expedia and many other companies find themselves, competing with… Read More
Amazon said Thursday that this year’s Prime Day provided the biggest boon to third-party sellers in the sales event’s six-year history. Outside merchants sold more than $3.5 billion of goods… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee landed this week, and it slammed Amazon, Facebook, Google and… Read More
Twenty years after Microsoft waged its own antitrust battle with the U.S. government, former CEO Steve Ballmer is betting that Congress won’t break up Big Tech this time around. In… Read More
In a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, Amazon says its internal investigation into the details of a widely cited Wall Street Journal story found no violations of… Read More
A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee finds that Amazon “has monopoly power over most third-party sellers and many of its suppliers,” and proposes sweeping reforms for U.S.… Read More
Microsoft’s plan to launch its Project xCloud game streaming service on Android — but not iOS — is casting the company’s criticisms of Apple over the past few months in… Read More
New York and California’s attorneys general are joining forces with the Federal Trade Commission in its antitrust investigation of Amazon, according to Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper. Though the FTC and California’s… Read More
Microsoft’s plan to acquire TikTok in the U.S. has created a paradox for the federal government as it seeks to crack down on consolidation of power among a handful of… Read More
Big Tech spent back-to-back days in the national spotlight this week between a long-anticipated Congressional hearing and second-quarter earnings reports. The juxtaposed events paint a revealing picture of the risks… Read More
Amazon’s aggressive strategy to beat out a competitor a decade ago came back to haunt the company Wednesday in a Congressional hearing with CEO Jeff Bezos and other tech leaders.… Read More
A wide-ranging antitrust hearing Wednesday with top tech CEOs skewed more toward grandstanding than substance, but there were a few revealing exchanges with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Several members of… Read More
The top executives at four of the world’s largest and most powerful technology companies are testifying Wednesday before Congress in the culmination of a year-long antitrust inquiry. The House Judiciary… Read More