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Sep 10, 2021, 6:00 AM

Rep. Jayapal: Biden administration supports Amazon-busting ‘Ending Platform Monopolies Act’

Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Amazon-busting legislation, the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” that would potentially force the company’s dismantling, has earned Biden… Read More

Sep 9, 2021, 5:01 PM

Rep. Adam Schiff rips Amazon and Facebook for ‘directly profiting’ on COVID-19 misinformation

Rep. Adam Schiff, in separate letters to bosses of tech giants Amazon and Facebook, criticized the efforts of both companies… Read More

Sep 7, 2021, 6:30 AM

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

Jul 21, 2021, 10:30 AM

Q&A: Google’s Seattle-area engineering leader – an Amazon vet – on big growth and remote work

Google’s growth in the Seattle region is part of what lured Eric Young, a 15-year Amazon veteran, to jump from… Read More

Jul 7, 2021, 7:30 PM

Washington state joins antitrust suit against Google over app store management, commission fees

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Wednesday joined a multistate, antitrust lawsuit targeting Google’s Play store as unfair to… Read More

Jun 17, 2021, 11:09 AM

Google settles with Washington AG for $423K over political ads

Without conceding it broke state law, Google paid the Washington attorney general’s office $423,659 to settle a lawsuit over the… Read More

Jun 11, 2021, 2:42 PM

New federal antitrust legislation puts Amazon, Big Tech on notice and on target

Federal lawmakers introduced a wave of legislation Friday that collectively seeks to change the way large tech companies such as… Read More

Mar 2, 2021, 2:58 PM

‘Widespread failure to comply’: Why Washington state’s AG is suing Google, again

[Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.]… Read More

Feb 16, 2021, 1:14 PM

Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share

New numbers show 2020 was the first year that Chromebooks outsold Macs, posting impressive market share gains at the expense… Read More

Oct 31, 2020, 8:58 AM

Tech in 2020 and beyond: The economy, Amazon, antitrust and the potential impact of the election

The past year has brought a pandemic, a national reckoning over race, plus antitrust investigations and charges against major tech… Read More

Oct 20, 2020, 4:21 PM

Expedia Group CEO on Google antitrust case: ‘Very pleased to see the government finally taking action’

Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern says he hopes the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust complaint against Google ultimately changes the search… Read More

Oct 20, 2020, 9:51 AM

What did Google learn from Microsoft? New antitrust case hearkens back to landmark dispute

The antitrust complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department against Google on Tuesday morning spotlights the difficult position in which… Read More

Sep 11, 2020, 4:17 PM

GeekWire Podcast: Surface Duo hands-on; NFL on Microsoft Teams; Coping with wildfire smoke

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: The new Microsoft dual-screen Surface Duo device has arrived… Read More

Apr 28, 2020, 2:11 PM

Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending

Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s revenue… Read More

Apr 23, 2020, 9:52 AM

Big Tech’s reputation is rising as governments tap the industry in coronavirus response

The coronavirus crisis quickly became an unexpected life raft for the technology industry’s image as even its biggest critics enlist… Read More

Mar 23, 2020, 4:59 PM

Amazon settles non-compete lawsuit involving AWS sales exec who joined Google Cloud

Amazon settled a lawsuit involving a former Amazon Web Services sales executive who joined rival Google Cloud last year. Amazon… Read More

Mar 4, 2020, 10:11 AM

Google bars visitors in Seattle, allows employees to work remotely amid coronavirus outbreak

Update: Google took a step beyond allowing employees to work from home Wednesday evening as the coronavirus outbreak continued to develop.… Read More

Feb 24, 2020, 10:46 AM

Is Alexa always listening? New study examines accidental triggers of digital assistants

The listening capacity of digital assistants like Alexa and Siri has become a major privacy sticking point in the last… Read More

Feb 4, 2020, 6:25 AM

Google discloses cloud revenue for the first time — here’s how it compares to Amazon and Microsoft

Google parent Alphabet gave new insight into the state of its cloud division this week, disclosing quarterly and annual revenue… Read More

Jan 29, 2020, 6:25 AM

Google snags office space in two more Seattle-area buildings, continuing rapid growth

Google is expanding yet again in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, Wash., just a few months after purchasing a huge… Read More

Jan 28, 2020, 8:46 AM

Amazon and Google sued by reps of legendary songwriters over pirated music on their platforms

Amazon and Google failed to police their music marketplaces and allowed pirated recordings to proliferate, according to a series of… Read More

Jan 21, 2020, 10:06 AM

Google wades deeper into Expedia’s territory with new travel and cloud pact with Sabre

Google is taking a major step in its travel push, teaming up with travel giant Sabre Corp. in a new… Read More

Jan 7, 2020, 6:10 PM

Sonos vs. Google: Amazon won patent for ‘distributed speaker synchronization’ four years ago

Is this why Sonos decided to sue Google rather than going after Amazon? Our search of U.S. patent records this… Read More

Jan 7, 2020, 10:00 AM

Here are all of Google’s voice assistant announcements from CES as it battles Amazon

One of Google’s main advantages over rivals like Amazon in the digital assistant race is its command of the popular… Read More

Jan 4, 2020, 10:01 AM

The future of podcasting: Can the business of audio content catch up with the creative revolution?

More than half of the U.S. population over age 12 has now listened to a podcast, according to Edison Research.… Read More

Jan 1, 2020, 9:21 AM

The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10 years

The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for… Read More

Dec 11, 2019, 12:01 AM

Winter was coming! Seattle snow and HBO show among Google’s top trending search terms in 2019

Winter was a hot topic when it came to Google searches in 2019 — whether it was coming to HBO’s… Read More

Nov 14, 2019, 7:01 AM

Amazon dominates global smart speaker sales as Google continues to lag behind

Despite a growing list of challengers, Amazon remains the dominant force in the global smart speaker market, accounting for more… Read More

Nov 1, 2019, 7:53 AM

Google to acquire Fitbit for $2.1B, doubling down on digital health and wearables

Google is buying Fitbit, bolstering the tech giant’s quiet push into digital health and setting up wearables as its next… Read More