A franchise in disguise? Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners program will face a key legal test
A new lawsuit challenges the legal status of a program that Amazon uses to deliver packages to doorsteps around the world. (GeekWire File Photo) Amazon “exercises near…
Why Amazon is now pledging to make good on bad third-party products
GeekWire Illustration Amazon has long contended that it shouldn’t be held legally liable for defective products sold by third-party merchants on Amazon.com, maintaining that the liability rests…
Amazon sued for ending free Whole Foods delivery as Prime benefit
Inside a Whole Foods Market near Amazon’s Seattle headquarters after the tech giant’s 2017 acquisition of the grocery chain. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) A proposed…
Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said repeatedly that he wants the “lived experience” of employees to match the company’s ideals. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Bending…
Critics of non-compete deals see progress in Microsoft policy change
Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft’s decision to stop using and enforcing non-compete clauses for all employees except senior leaders is another…
Amazon and Microsoft deny using Flickr pics for facial recognition, as suits test limits of privacy law
A diagram released by IBM in 2019, illustrating the biometric markers available to researchers in its Diversity in Faces dataset, containing images uploaded by Flickr users under…