GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft’s retail bombshell; Amazon’s robotaxi deal; and Trump vs. tech, again

Right here’s what we’re speaking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week.

• Microsoft shocked the tech world Friday morning by asserting it will be closing all of its retail shops. What does this inform us about Microsoft’s enterprise technique and what would possibly it portend for the way forward for bodily retail shops?

• Amazon made a daring transfer in a brand new path by buying robotaxi startup Zoox. Why would Jeff Bezos wish to get into autonomous autos? And which fellow tech billionaire referred to as him a copycat?
• President Trump shut the door on employment-based visas for international staff, and tech leaders are ticked off. We’ll clarify what he did, and why they’re not completely happy.
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out an bold plan to deal with racial injustice on the firm and throughout society. Can Microsoft save the world? We’ll assess its probabilities.
• Amazon purchased the naming rights to Seattle’s basketball and hockey enviornment … and also you received’t consider what they’re going to name it. So, after all, we have now to crash Amazon’s celebration by arising with nicknames for the venue.

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With GeekWire’s Todd Bishop, John Cook dinner, Monica Nickelsburg, Taylor Soper and Kurt Schlosser. Produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.Okay. Caldwell.