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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
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The EU Just Aimed Its Gatekeeper Rules at AWS and Azure for the First Time, and It Used AI to Do It
by Natalia Nowak · 26 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
For the first time, the European Commission aimed its Digital Markets Act at cloud, preliminarily designating AWS and Azure as gatekeepers on qualitative grounds and naming AI dependence as the lock-in. Remedies on portability and egress would hand European hosts a switching-cost edge.
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AWS Connected Its Network to Google Cloud With No Egress Fees. Azure and Oracle Are Next.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 May 2026 · 4 min read
AWS Interconnect multicloud eliminates per-gigabyte transfer fees between AWS and Google Cloud VPCs in favor of flat bandwidth pricing. Azure and Oracle are next. The launch removes the cloud-to-cloud brokerage role that drove Megaport and Equinix Fabric growth.
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OpenAI Ends Azure Exclusivity. AWS and Google Cloud Are Now in Play.
by Natalia Nowak · 30 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
OpenAI's Azure exclusivity ended on April 27 as Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership: Microsoft stops paying revenue share, retains its 27 percent equity stake, and Azure keeps first-launch rights, while OpenAI gains full multi-cloud distribution including AWS and Google Cloud. The restructuring directly resolves a legal conflict created by OpenAI's $38 billion AWS cloud contract and up to $50 billion Amazon investment, and removes the barrier that prevented enterprise customers from running OpenAI models outside Azure.