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Podcast: What Trump 2.0 means for tech, Diller nixes Expedia + Uber, and a GeekWire fall update

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, it’s a grab-bag of topics, including self-driving wheelchairs, Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller’s comments… Read More

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‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Dana Mattioli, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the new… Read More

Amazon asks court to toss FTC case, saying its practices are ‘the essence of competition’

Amazon defended the business practices targeted by the Federal Trade Commission as “the essence of competition” and asked a federal… Read More

Fluid apps, open models, and free markets: Inside the AI-focused Intelligent Applications Summit

Everything in AI is in flux. In fact, a lack of predictability will define this new era. That was one… Read More

Surprise: Amazon spent less than $500M on M&A in 2021, one of its lowest totals in recent years

Amazon joined other tech companies in a huge corporate buying spree last year, right? Well, it depends on how you… Read More

Microsoft’s $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard deal will test new U.S. antitrust approach

Announcing its record-setting deal to acquire game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, Microsoft pointed out that the combination would… Read More

News publishers, including Seattle group, sue Google and Facebook over market dominance

A group of 30 newspaper publishers, including Seattle-based Robinson Newspapers, have sued Google and Facebook over the way the social… Read More

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Interview: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on why her new legislation might make Amazon an illegal monopoly

Few lawmakers have gotten Amazon’s attention like the one who hails from the company’s hometown, Rep. Pramila Jayapal. The 7th… Read More

Review of Amazon-MGM deal will be led by FTC, now chaired by Big Tech critic Lina Khan

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission — not the Department of Justice — is expected to lead the investigation into Amazon’s… Read More

Heads up, Big Tech: Lina Khan, Amazon’s antitrust adversary, will chair FTC

Watch out, Amazon and other tech giants. The White House has picked Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade… Read More

Who is Lina Khan? Biden’s FTC commissioner pick is an antitrust expert and Amazon critic

The news: President Joe Biden on Monday announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan as commissioner of the Federal Trade… Read More