Microsoft shareholders roundly defeated a proposal to put a rank-and-file employee on the company’s board of directors. Speaking during the company’s first-ever virtual annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Microsoft general… Read More
When Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed new taxes and regulations on Uber and Lyft into law Tuesday afternoon, the city became the latest in a series of local and state… Read More
Senate Democrats introduced sweeping data privacy protections Tuesday in an effort led by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to federally regulate tech company business practices. The bill would establish new privacy… Read More
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed legislation Monday that will establish a minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers and raise per-ride taxes to pay for city programs. Seattle Mayor… Read More
Microsoft’s decision to retain former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate how one of its partner companies uses facial recognition technology, announced late last week, highlights one of the… Read More
Washington state legislators will push for new regulations governing data privacy and facial recognition next year, and a draft bill obtained by GeekWire provides a glimpse into what they have… Read More
Washington state residents who rely on Dolly for the Seattle-based startup’s peer-to-peer moving service are finding their options limited. Because of an ongoing dispute with state regulators, the app no… Read More
Microsoft plans to make changes required by California’s new data privacy law available to all its U.S. customers, the company said Monday. Microsoft privacy chief Julie Brill pledged the company’s… Read More
The Federal Communications Commission released its official order on T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint on Tuesday in a final regulatory seal of approval for the deal. The FCC voted to approve… Read More
The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up its investigations into Big Tech, and one of the agency’s toughest enforcers visited Amazon’s backyard to discuss the state of competition in the… Read More
Amazon laid out its positions on a wide range of issues in a new web page that surfaced Thursday, bringing new clarity to the tech company’s public policy agenda. The… Read More
The Federal Communications Commission’s rollback of internet regulations known as net neutrality was upheld Tuesday by a panel of federal judges. But the court struck down a key provision that… Read More
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks a Warren presidency would “suck for us.” That’s what the besieged executive told employees at a July meeting, according to recordings obtained by The Verge… Read More
Tech companies developing facial recognition software want to write the rules that will govern the controversial technology. A coalition of trade groups representing the tech industry sent a letter Thursday… Read More
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan plans to introduce a new tax of 51 cents per Uber and Lyft ride to fund affordable housing construction and complete the city’s beleaguered streetcar project.… Read More
In the year and change that Rohit Chopra has served on the Federal Trade Commission, he’s quickly emerged as one of Big Tech’s biggest skeptics. Chopra was one of two… Read More
Bill Gates believes calls to break up Big Tech are misguided. The Microsoft co-founder said that approach to mitigating the power the tech industry wields is too blunt an instrument,… Read More
It’s been a rough month for ride-hailing companies, and Seattle is about to put another bump in the road. As Uber and Lyft grapple with new California regulations that could… Read More
From package delivery to ride-hailing, companies including Amazon and Uber are facing new scrutiny over their use of contract workers to power the services they provide to consumers. California is… Read More
Three U.S. Senators are demanding answers from Amazon about its Delivery Service Partners program, the network of independent delivery companies that helps get packages to customers’ doors. Senators Elizabeth Warren,… Read More
California is poised to enact a law that would force Uber and Lyft to treat drivers like employees as part of a broader push around the country to ensure app-based… Read More
Attorneys general from 50 U.S. states and territories launched an investigation into Google to find out whether the tech giant violates antitrust laws. A handful of them announced the probe… Read More
Microsoft President Brad Smith has a light-up globe, a neon blue miniature likeness of Earth, spinning on his desk inside the company’s Redmond headquarters. When we sat down with him… Read More
Amazon is raising the fees it charges third-party sellers in France by 3 percent in direct response to the country’s new tax on tech companies. The tax was designed to… Read More
T-Mobile and Sprint crossed another checkpoint Wednesday on their path to merge and create a $146 billion wireless company. The Federal Communications Commission circulated a draft of an order to… Read More
Shopping on Amazon.com can be overwhelming. A search for an everyday item frequently yields tens of thousands of results. Inundated customers often gravitate toward items stamped with an “Amazon’s Choice”… Read More
There’s growing consensus that something needs to be done about data privacy. But figuring out what should be done and who should be doing it is a lot more complicated.… Read More
A U.S. senator from Oregon wants Amazon to explain the role it played in a hack that exposed sensitive data from more than 100 million Capital One credit card applicants.… Read More
Federal regulators approved T-Mobile’s blockbuster merger with Sprint on Friday after 15 months of negotiations, paving the way for the third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers to form another titan in… Read More
The Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation into Facebook in June, the company confirmed in its second-quarter earnings report released Wednesday. The agency sought clearance to launch an inquiry… Read More