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Antitrust

Zillow Group faces antitrust scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over $500M ShowingTime acquisition

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) sent a letter on Thursday to the FTC that raises antitrust… Read More

Amazon disputes record $885 million fine from European Union data privacy watchdog

Amazon has been fined a record 746 million euros, or $885 million based on current exchange rates, over alleged violations… Read More

New presidential order will push for net neutrality, limit large mergers, restrict non-compete clauses

In an effort to promote more business and labor competition, President Biden today will issue a sweeping executive order to… Read More

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

Elizabeth Warren says Amazon-MGM deal requires ‘meticulous antitrust scrutiny’ in letter to FTC

In a letter sent to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren asserted that Amazon’s billion-dollar bid for… Read More

Amazon says proposed antitrust bills will have ‘significant negative effects’ on sellers, consumers

Amazon responded Tuesday to proposed antitrust legislation introduced by members of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month, saying… 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

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

Podcast

The antitrust case against Amazon: Analyzing the D.C. attorney general’s suit against the tech giant

An antitrust lawsuit filed against Amazon by Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine this week promises to test the evidence… Read More

D.C. AG targets Amazon in new antitrust suit over third-party seller pricing policies

A new lawsuit from the Washington, D.C., attorney general alleges that Amazon illegally manipulates the e-commerce market to its own… Read More

Lawyer who helped Netscape in Microsoft antitrust lawsuit is representing Epic in its battle with Apple

Kicking off in federal court today, the closely watched battle between the makers of Fortnite and Apple will include an… Read More

Zillow Group responds to lawsuit filed by Real Estate Exchange, denies antitrust claims

The news: Seattle-based Zillow Group responded to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Austin-based real estate startup Real Estate Exchange in… Read More

Podcast

Optimal Prime: Amazon’s big quarter reveals its post-pandemic potential

Year-over-year quarterly growth of 44% would be significant for any company, but when the underlying numbers are this big, it… Read More

Amazon’s antitrust adversary: What Lina Khan’s Senate hearing reveals about Big Tech’s future

A decades-long policy of lax regulation of the technology industry could be coming to a close — and Lina Khan… Read More

Why Microsoft’s shopping spree and lack of regulatory attention isn’t entirely a coincidence

Microsoft’s pending $19.7 billion deal to buy Nuance Communications is the latest in what’s become a shopping spree for the… Read More

Podcast

What the Biden administration means for tech, from the future of work to regulatory crackdowns

As Joe Biden settles into the Oval Office, tech companies in the Seattle region and elsewhere are watching with a… Read More

Is the regulatory crusade against Big Tech over? What experts expect under Biden administration

When President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in Wednesday, they inherited a unique opportunity to rein… Read More

Q&A: Rep. DelBene on data privacy, rural broadband and the Biden administration’s tech agenda

When President-elect Joe Biden and the incoming Congress take the helm this January, they will face several unresolved tech policy… Read More

Europe accuses Amazon of misusing third-party retail data, opens new ‘Buy Box’ investigation

Amazon’s antitrust problems just hopped the pond. European competition authorities, in preliminary findings issued Tuesday morning, accused the Seattle-based tech… Read More

Podcast

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

Cantwell report warns that Google and Facebook are killing local journalism as CEOs testify at Senate

The technology industry is pushing local journalism over the edge, according to a new report from the office of Sen.… Read More

Podcast

Expedia Group’s CEO on the future of travel, and why big cities will someday ‘come roaring back’

“The day there’s a vaccine announced, that people really believe in, will be our highest booking day in history.” That… Read More

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

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

Amazon says third-party merchants sold $3.5B of goods during Prime Day amid antitrust scrutiny

Amazon said Thursday that this year’s Prime Day provided the biggest boon to third-party sellers in the sales event’s six-year… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Amazon antitrust findings; Satya Nadella’s WFH tips; Mysterious $60B woman

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee… Read More

20 years after Microsoft’s antitrust fight, Steve Ballmer betting that Big Tech won’t be broken up

Twenty years after Microsoft waged its own antitrust battle with the U.S. government, former CEO Steve Ballmer is betting that… Read More

Amazon says internal investigation into WSJ report on third-party sales data finds no policy violations

In a letter to the U.S. House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, Amazon says its internal investigation into the details of a… Read More

House antitrust probe says Amazon has ‘monopoly power’ over sellers, company slams ‘fringe’ findings

A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee finds that Amazon “has monopoly power over most third-party sellers and… Read More

Microsoft ends xCloud testing for iOS devices, sparking antitrust chatter over App Store policies

Microsoft’s plan to launch its Project xCloud game streaming service on Android — but not iOS — is casting the… Read More

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