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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we dive into Amazon's launch of a new discount storefront called Amazon Haul, and explore what it says about the future of e-commerce and generational shifts in shopping. Guests Michael Levin and Josh Lowitz of Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) provide insights into the long-term trends around Amazon Prime membership and consumer behaviors on the platform.
- CIRP: Amazon Report on Substack. (Check out their Apple Report, as well.)
- GeekWire: Hands-on with Amazon Haul: First impressions of the e-commerce giant’s new Temu and Shein rival
- Amazon: Introducing Amazon Haul—a broad selection of products $20 or less, with most under $10
- Business Insider: Amazon's new discount section, 'Haul,' looks like a Temu version of Temu
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.
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This special edition of the GeekWire Podcast is the first in a four-episode series that we’ll be publishing in the months ahead as part of our year-long Microsoft @ 50 project, recognizing the company’s 50th anniversary in April 2025.
On this episode, we’ll take a fresh look at Microsoft’s startup story with tech historian and author Margaret O’Mara of the University of Washington, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America; plus highlights from a recent conversation with David Marquardt, Microsoft’s first outside investor and a longtime board member.
Register here for our Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle.
Microsoft @ 50 is an independent GeekWire editorial project supported by Accenture.
With GeekWire Co-Founder Todd Bishop. Edited by Curt Milton.
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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, it's a grab-bag of topics, including self-driving wheelchairs, Expedia Group Chairman Barry Diller's comments on the prospects for an acquisition by Uber, and an update on GeekWire's upcoming events and coverage.
In the final segment, we discuss what the new Trump administration could mean for technology regulation, including the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon and oversight for tech M&A.
Related coverage and links
- NYT: Tech Giants Face a Familiar Uncertainty With Trump
- Expedia chairman Barry Diller on potential deal with Uber and Washington Post’s ‘blunder’
- Sea-Tac Airport’s self-driving wheelchairs are getting stymied by unexpected obstacles
Upcoming GeekWire Events
- GeekWire Gala, Dec. 12: Register here.
- Microsoft @ 50: Special series and March 20 event.
With GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and John Cook.
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This week, with just days to go before the Nov. 5 election, we take a fresh look at AI, social media, and some surprising trends in the spread of fake content and misinformation, with Danielle Lee Tomson, research manager for election rumors at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.
Guest host Ross Reynolds speaks with Tomson about AI, social media, and some surprising trends in the spread of rumors online.
Related links and stories:
- Substack: Election Rumor Research @ Center for an Informed Public
- New York Times: As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse’
- Washington Post: Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts
Edited by Curt Milton. Music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.
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Our guest on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast is Panos Panay, Amazon's senior vice president of Devices & Services, a longtime leader in the world of consumer technology. It has been one year since he started at Amazon, after his surprise departure from Microsoft, where he oversaw products including Surface and Windows.
Panay's division at Amazon includes the Alexa voice assistant and Echo devices, but that's just the start. His purview also spans Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Zoox self-driving taxis, Eero wireless networking devices, Ring and Blink cameras, Fire TV devices, and Kuiper, the company's nascent satellite internet business.
The focus this week is Kindle, with the Oct. 30 release of the Kindle Colorsoft, the first color device in Amazon's line of market-leading e-readers, selling for a premium price of $279.99. It's part of a new era for the Kindle business, driven in part by book-loving social media influencers and consumers looking for simplicity and focus in a world of non-stop smartphone alerts.
We also talked about AI, including the generative AI summaries coming with the next-generation Kindle Scribe tablet, due out in December. Panay wasn't ready to dish on what's next for Alexa in conversational AI, but he made it clear that he's bullish on AI in general, and doesn't believe it's a passing fad.
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop
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