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Microsoft Bing has struggled to gain traction against Google for many years. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
“I don’t believe there’s a price in the world that Microsoft could offer us. They offered to give us Bing for free. They could give us the whole company.”
That quote from Apple executive Eddy Cue was one of the zingers about Microsoft, and its unsuccessful negotiations with Apple over the iPhone’s default search position, recounted in the antitrust ruling against Google this week.
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we look at the implications of that ruling for Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and explain why things 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.
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