AAI White Paper, main points, in my view:
-Google and DoubleClick considered (at least, potential) horizontal competitors in two relevant markets: market for distributing online advertising space of third party (non-search) web sites and market for publisher ad serving tools
- therefore, "(I)f the evidence confirms that these markets are concentrated and that entry is otherwise difficult, as appears to be the case, then the merger presents a relatively straightforward case for challenge under the horizontal and non-horizontal merger guidelines"
- "The upshot of the merger may be higher costs for web publishers to sell their advertising space, which ultimately
may affect the diversity and richness of content available on the Internet and the vibrancy of the media".
Australian Competition Authority holding a different view, it seems
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Don't look for it in Rome... Nearly two months on, the Commission’s DMA non-compliance decision against Meta was finally published... -
P. Krugman, here. [In 2017 (!) I had the honour of talking about fintech, competition, and the PSD2 to a Brazilian audience - people were...
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P. Samuelson, here.
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D. Baldacci, here.
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Orf.at, hier (Max Schrems ab 9:34).
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Podcast, here.
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Not the usual Competition Commissioner's statement. Whole-of-Commission Approach? EC, here . [Dutch company buying an US company, mind... -
South Korea: Local DMA Bill "likely to be put on hold due to pressure from the TRUMP administration"S. Lee (from LinkedIn), here . "Discovered" by a researcher coming back from vacation? Don't they have civil society active ...
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