What the Google ruling means for Microsoft Bing; Amazon delivery dilemma; Seattle's return to office
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🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we look at the implications of the Google antitrust ruling for Microsoft Bing, and conclude that they probably aren't as rosy for the Redmond company as they might have appeared initially.
Plus, a rural community offers a window into Amazon's relationship with the independent companies that deliver its packages around the world.
And finally, the City of Seattle gets support from Amazon and resistance from workers in response to its decision to bring them back to the office for three days a week, up from two days previously.
Related coverage
- ‘Google is a monopolist’: Tech giant loses antitrust suit over search business in huge victory for DOJ
- City of Seattle increasing in-office work to three days for more than 13,000 employees
- Driven away: Overloaded by Amazon, rural delivery companies reach the end of the road
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop and editor Taylor Soper.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my gosh that would be the best story. We ordered our employees to come back to the office five days a week and this is what happened. I would totally read that story. Okay. Is that the next |
| 0:16.2 | geekware experience? I think we might have something here. This might be the kind of thing where I wake up |
| 0:21.5 | tomorrow morning and regret this entire conversation, |
| 0:24.2 | but we'll check in on it later. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, for sure. It would be a fascinating experiment. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah, that's one word for it. Hi and welcome to Gekwyer, I'm Gekwyer, co-founder Todd Bishop. And I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop and I'm GeekWire |
| 0:44.4 | editor Taylor Soper. We are coming to you from Seattle where we get to report each |
| 0:48.3 | day on what's happening around us in business, technology, science, |
| 0:51.5 | startups and innovation. |
| 0:53.1 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. |
| 0:55.9 | We talk about some of the most important and interesting stories and trends in the news. |
| 1:01.5 | This week, Taylor, I've been spending a lot of time digging into the antitrust ruling against |
| 1:07.0 | Google and I gotta tell you obviously this is a negative ruling for Google. |
| 1:12.0 | It was ruled that they're a monopoly that |
| 1:13.7 | illegally abused their monopoly power to gain competitive advantages over |
| 1:17.9 | rivals but this thing is pretty brutal for Microsoft. I know that there's all these hot takes out there saying |
| 1:25.4 | that this is gonna help Microsoft with Bing and all that stuff but first off |
| 1:31.8 | just reading through this I mean it's a recap of all of the reasons that |
| 1:38.6 | Apple says that Bing sucks first off. I mean you can't be a Microsoft executive I would |
| 1:47.8 | imagine reading this thinking oh this is fantastic because it's like the greatest hits of the greatest hits |
| 1:55.0 | against Microsoft by Apple, and specifically by Eddie Q, |
| 1:59.0 | one of its senior executives, one of Apple's senior executives |
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