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Amazon announced this week that it is purchasing award-winning podcast studio Wondery for an undisclosed sum that is likely north of $300 million.

When it launched in early access in October, Amazon’s Luna game streaming service was available on Fire TVs, Windows PCs, Macs, and iPhone/iPad.

Amazon announced today that its Fire TV streaming platform now has over 50 million monthly active users (MAUs).

Amazon alerted users of its Alexa-powered devices that it will soon enable a potentially dangerous new service called Sidewalk. You may want to disable it.

A group of technology companies that includes Microsoft has filed a motion in Google’s antitrust case to keep their data private from the search giant.

Our national nightmare is finally over: HBO Max, which has been conspicuously absent from Fire TV, is coming to Amazon’s streaming solutions tomorrow.

The European Commission has determined that Amazon is violating antitrust laws by “distorting competition in online retail markets.”

Amazon just announced quarterly revenues that are bigger than those of Microsoft and Google combined.

A new report says that European Union regulators have drawn up a “hit list” of the 20 biggest tech companies whose market power it will curb.

Here is a quick summary of the arguments made against Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, and the recommended solutions.

A damning House Judiciary Committee report says that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are monopolies and might need to be broken up.

As it does every September, Amazon today unleashed another amazing collection of Alexa-powered smart home devices.

The Amazon Halo is the anti-Apple Watch, a fitness band with no display and some understandable privacy concerns.

Amazon announced today that it has released podcast support in Amazon Music in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan.

Amazon FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited are now called Amazon Kids and Amazon Kids+, and each is getting new content and features.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced today that it will move forward with Microsoft as the winner of its $10 billion JEDI contract.

Walmart today announced a new membership program called Wallmart+ that combines in-store and digital perks similar to Amazon Prime.

Amazon today announced its entry into the health tracking market with a new service called Halo and a new wearable called Halo Band.

Amazon today announced the preview availability of Audible Plus, a lower-cost tier of the firm’s audiobook subscription service.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has weighed in on the antitrust scrutiny facing Big Tech. His take: They all “deserve rude, unfair, and tough questions."

Canada and Germany have both launched separate antitrust investigations into Amazon’s business practices related to third-party sellers.

Amazon today announced that it is rebranding its Twitch Prime service to Prime Gaming to keep it more inline with the firm’s other Prime perks.

In the wake of its legal challenge to Google, Sonos has finally gone after the market leader, Amazon, albeit indirectly.

Lawmakers in the EU have had it with Apple and other Big Tech firms unfairly favoring their own offerings over those of rivals.

Yesterday, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai all testified before Congress.

Companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google use a strategy called “copy, acquire, kill” to eliminate potential rivals. Sound familiar?

At its Alexa Live 2020 virtual event today, Amazon has announced dozens of new features for developers targeting the Alexa voice assistant.