Algorithmic commerce platform Feedvisor gets $20 million from General Catalyst

TechCrunch, here. 

Quantifying Key Characteristics of 71 Data Protection Laws

B. Nieuwesteeg, here. 

Mastercard Wins UK Ruling On Interchange Fees

PYMNTS, here. 

A Study on Private Browsing: Consumer Usage, Knowledge, and Thoughts

DuckDuckGo, here.

Restoring trust in our economy

M. Vestager, here. 

Telekom startet Wettbewerb zu Privacy-Bots

Telekom.com, hier.

(10.000 Euro: Anreiz genug?)

Why the promise of big data hasn’t delivered yet

TechCrunch, here. 

vzbv verklagt WhatsApp: Verbraucher müssen Hoheit über Daten behalten

vzbv, hier. 

Supreme Court Blocks Further Probe into Uber's Abuse of Market Dominance

News18.com, here. 

Ohlhausen's Notable Antitrust Dissents As FTC Commish

Law360, here. 

Luckily, bots’ conquest of knowledge is not yet complete

D. Coyle, here.

Diritti TV, rigettate linee guida Lega Calcio assegnazioni 2018-2021

Provvedimento qui.

(Already on my next year's syllabus...)

Irish competition watchdog to investigate sale of tickets for live events

IrishTimes, here. 

How the Internet Got Donald Trump Elected

IICom, here. 

AAI urges the Supreme Court to reverse decision sharply restricting the patent exhaustion doctrine.

Press Release, here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Compliance Programs – The Italian Competition Authority Highlights the Importance of an Effective Implementation and Update

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

Korean Ruling Places Qualcomm’s Business Model at Risk

Mintz Levin, here. 

It’s Official: TRIPS Health Amendment In Effect, First Ever To A WTO Agreement

IP-Watch, here. 

Experten im Bundestag: "Soziale Netzwerke verdienen sehr gut an Fake News"

Heise.de, hier. 

Hollywood Anti-Trust Probe in Europe Might Be Softened, Commissioner Vestager Hints

Variety, here. 

Google Privacy-Policy Change Faces New Scrutiny in EU

WSJ, here and here.

President Trump Told That Strong Copyright Laws Are in His Interest

TorrentFreak, here. 

Hinweise zum Preisbindungsverbot im Bereich des stationären Lebensmitteleinzelhandels

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Guidelines on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data in a world of Big Data

Council of Europe, here. 

Rise of the Digital Regulator

R. Van Loo, here. 

Competition Law Risk

CMA and IRM, here. 

Antitrust Policy for a New Administration

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

General Opinion on the EU Copyright Reform Package

European Copyright Society, here. 

Avoiding disqualification: advice for company directors

CMA, here. 

Kartellgesetz-Novelle stößt bei Experten auf ein geteiltes Echo

Deutscher Bundestag, hier. 

TransAlgo : une plate-forme scientifique pour juger de la transparence des algorithmes

Sciencesetavenir, ici. 

Portugal Asks European Court To Determine What Criteria Are Required For Discriminatory Pricing To Be An Abuse Under Article 102 TFEU

EU-competitionlaw.com, here. 

Google, Mobile And Competition: The Current State Of Play

B. Edelman, here. 

Competition Law and Big Data: Do Competition Authorities Know How To Do It?

A. Lamadrid, S. Villiers, here. 

EC seeks feedback on commitments offered by Amazon in e-book investigation

Press release, here. 

BMW changes policy on car comparison sites following CMA action

CMA, here. 

Distorsion des marchés : du risque de collusion entre machines

H. Guillaud, ici. 

Automated software testing company Tricentis raises $165 million

VentureBeat, here. 

Ethics — the next frontier for artificial intelligence

TechCrunch, here. 

Ethique et numérique : les algorithmes en débat

CNIL, ici. 

Apple v. Qualcomm

Apple's Complaint, here. 

Peut-on armer la « transparence » des algorithmes ?

LeMonde, ici.

Maurice Stucke discussing "Virtual Competition"

Wharton Business Radio, Podcast here.

3 Fascinating Things I Learned About AI From This Reddit AMA

Aplus, here.

Privacy in our Digital Lives: Protecting Individuals and Promoting Innovation

Former US President Barak Obama, here.

Re-using Open Data

European Data Portal, here.

AI Software Learns to Make AI Software

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Microsoft/LinkedIn: EC's Decision published

Case M.8124, here.
(Long read, 58:00).

How e-payments can prevent cartelization

LiveMint, here. 

CAT rejects Flynn Pharma's request for interim relief to suspend CMA's order to lower prices for epilepsy treatment

Judgment here. 

Google’s Sergey Brin ‘Surprised’ by Speed of AI Advancements

Bloomberg, here. 

Machine Learning with Personal Data

D. Kamarinou, C. Millard, J. Singh, here,

Google Uses Its Search Engine to Hawk Its Products

WSJ, here. 

The Silver Lining Of Anti-Globalism Might Be The Creation Of A True Digital Economy

D. Rushkoff, here. 

GDPR and accountability (for accountants)

E. Denham, here.

AI: Aufstieg der Computer-Gehirne

FAZ, hier. 

EC welcomes steps taken by Amazon/Audible and Apple to improve competition in audiobook distribution

Press Release, here.

(Investigation opened in Germany the 16 November 2015: that was quick!)

Economics in Antitrust Enforcement and the Private Benefit of Scholarly Commentators

J. Broulik, here.

This almost 6-year old post is still rather apropos, if I may.

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

MIT News, here. 

Access to data and competition

Interview with A. Mundt, here. 

Artificial Intelligence at WEF17

Video here.


"the market is not the right way to make certain decisions"
"most engineers don't even know why governments exist"
"a corporation is a kind of AI, already "

Transparency and Trust in the Cognitive Era

IBM, here. 

The distributed future is personal

D. Searls, here. 

Mallinckrodt Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC, State Charges It Illegally Maintained its Monopoly of Specialty Drug Used to Treat Infants

FTC, here.

Artificial Intelligence: Balancing Opportunity and Responsibility

WEF17, Accenture, Video here.

WEF Davos: Who Will Own The Knowledge Produced From “Our” Data By Machines?

IP-Watch, here.

On technology and competition

Interview with W. Allan, here.

Why Is Everyone Talking About Algorithms?

DiscoverSociety, here. 

Une intelligence artificielle globale et agnostique peut-elle exister ?

Numerama, ici. 

App Store app prices to rise in the UK by >25% following Brexit exchange rate fluctuations

9to5mac, here. 

Qualcomm allegedly bribed Apple into not making a WiMAX iPhone

TheVerge, here. 

Trump, Corporatism, and the Dearth of Innovation

E. Phelps, here. 

VW Diesel Rigging Compared to Horse-Meat Lasagna by Court

Bloomberg, here. 

FTC Charges Qualcomm With Monopolizing Key Semiconductor Device Used in Cell Phones

FTC,  here. Qualcomm's response here.

Five things you should know about Charles Dickens and copyright law

Trademarkandcopyrightlawblog, here. 

Your research can help the FTC protect consumers

L. Cranor, here. 

Drugmakers Manipulate Orphan Drug Rules To Create Prized Monopolies

KHN.org, here. 

L'usine du futur

CIGREF, ici. 

Devices sprout ears

The Christian Science Monitor, here. 

New approach needed to tackle rising drug prices

OECD, here. 

Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

EC, Presentation here. 

Kartellsünder zahlen Bahn 400 Millionen Euro

Rp-online.de, hier. 

Pokémon Go generated revenues of $950 million in 2016

VentureBeat, here. 

The Missing Role of Economics in FTC Privacy Policy

J. Cooper, J. Wright, here. 

Trump’s vision for behavioral science in the White House is anyone’s guess

NewYorker, here.

"The President-elect, it turned out, had a gift for the behavioral arts. He intuitively grasped “loss aversion” (our tendency to give more weight to the threat of losses than to potential gains), and perpetually maximized “nostalgia bias” (our tendency to remember the past as being better than it was). He made frequent subconscious appeals to “cultural tightness” (whereby groups that have experienced threats to their safety tend to desire strong rules and the punishment of deviance), and, perhaps most striking, his approach tapped into what psychologists call “cognitive fluency” (the more easily we can mentally process an idea, such as “Make America great again” or “Lock her up!,” the more we’re prone to retain it). Even his Twitter game was sticky: “Crooked Hillary!” “build the wall.”

Ces avantages majeurs que détient Amazon par rapport à ses concurrents Google et Apple en matière d’innovation

F. Marty, ici (et ici). 

Facebook to roll out fake news tools in Germany

BBC, here. 

Why Los Angeles made an Alexa skill, and what the city wants to do with it

VentureBeat, here. 

European Commission finally admits their copyright proposal would levy a link tax for articles shared on social media

OpenMedia, here. 

6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely

N. Benaich, here. 

Microsoft-Chef Nadella: Künstliche Intelligenz ist eine demokratisierende Technik

Heise.de, hier. 

What if we could reimagine copyright?

 R. Giblin & K. Weatherall, here. 

Mathematical precision has replaced political speculation in economics courses. Why?

TheEconomist, here. 

La politique du faux et de la laideur: le triste laboratoire italien, du Trecento à Berlusconi

P. Boucheron, Vidéo ici. 

US enforcers clear their desks before Trump arrives

FT, here.

Antitrust Guidelines for International Enforcement and Cooperation

FTC, DOJ, here.

#makeantitrustexcitingagain

"So to you, our dear readers who took the time to join this endeavor, we thank you. Few get excited about antitrust anymore. But apathy has a price. We cannot assume that the digitized hand will always protect our welfare. It is ultimately up to us to start asking our elected officials and agencies what they are doing to prevent these scenarios from happening." 

Updated Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property

FTC, DOJ, here.

(Still "curiously unhelpful", at first glance).

Bornes pour voitures électriques : l’Open Data devient la règle, sauf pour les données en temps réel

NextImpact, here. 

A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity

McKinsey, here. 

The Watchers: Assaults on privacy in America

J. Shaw, here. 

“OK Facebook”—Why stop at assistants? Facebook has grander ambitions for modern AI

ArsTechnica, here. 

Artificial Intelligence - Law, Policy, & Ethics eJournal

Here. 

Turkish Competition Authority fines Booking.com

Dailysabah, here. 

Autonomy and the Collection of Personal Data: Measuring the Privacy Impact Google’s Privacy Policy Change

J. Cooper, here.. 

A User-Centered Perspective on Algorithmic Personalization

A. Lange,  R. Coen, E. Paul, P. Vanegas, G. Hans, here. 

Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability

Association for Computing Machinery, here.  

Software Copyright Litigation After Oracle v. Google

J. Band, here. 

U.S. appeals court revives Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit

VentureBeat, here.

Global Risks Report 2017: Emerging Technologies

WEF, here. 

New rules for robots backed by European Parliament committee

Out-law.com, here. 

A course for these troubled times: Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

C. Bergstrom and J. West, here. 

Europe’s Data Marketplaces – Current Status and Future Perspectives

IDC, Open Evidence for the EC, here. 

EPA: Fiat Chrysler diesels have illegal software to thwart emissions controls

ArsTechnica, here. 

Bayer says had productive meeting with Trump over Monsanto deal

Reuters, here. 

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder wegen vertikaler Preisbindung bei Möbeln

Bundeskartellamt, hier. Fallbericht hier.

"Teilweise ergänzt wurde die Praxis um spezielle „Spielregeln“ für den OnlineHandel, deren formuliertes Ziel es war, ein festes und stabiles Preisgefüge am Markt durchzusetzen und deren Einhaltung überwacht und mit dem Mittel der Androhung und Umsetzung von Liefersperren bzw. der Kündigung der Liefervereinbarung durchgesetzt wurde."

France’s ‘right to disconnect’ is a nice idea, but it’s also pretty vague

TheVerge, here. 

The Problem with Legacy Ecosystems

M. Wessel, A. Levie, R. Siegel, here. 

Enter the Data Economy

EPSC Strategic Notes, here.

Amazon changes pricing practices and pays $1.1 million to settle price advertising case

Competition Bureau, here. 

Flying cars: transforming a dream into reality

WIPO Magazine, here. 

Data-Driven Discrimination at Work

P. Kim, here. 

The demand for AI is helping Nvidia and AMD leapfrog Intel

TheVerge, here. 

Nobel Laureates: Eliminating Rent Seeking and Tougher Antitrust Enforcement Are Critical to Reducing Inequality

Promarket, here. 

Who’s responsible for building trust with personal data?

Nesta, here. 

Windows 10 et vie privée : un nouveau panneau de contrôle en préparation

CNetFrance, ici. 

Datenschützer schliesst Sachverhaltsabklärung zu Windows 10 ab

Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB), hier. 

Paid Internet advertising in the EU

Eurostat, here. 

Android, iOS and Market Power – What Does Mobile Platform Competition Really Look Like? – Part Ii

Project-disco.org, here. 

How Your Medical Data Fuels a Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

Time, here. 

‘AI-powered’ is tech’s meaningless equivalent of ‘all natural’

TechCrunch, here. 

Privacy in Mobile Devices and Web-Applications

DG-JRC, here (p. 36 ff.). 

Mobile Apps Study

FPF, here. 

The Constitution Says Nothing About Behavioral Economics

WSJ, here. 

Why Fake News Is An Antitrust Problem

Forbes, here. 

The impact of artificial intelligence on the travel industry

Econsultancy, here. 

Data capitalism is cashing in on our privacy . . . for now

FT, here. 

Behavioural Insights at the United Nations

UNDP, here. 

EU proposes rules allowing media companies to freeze out ad blockers

FT, here. 

Proposal for a Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications

EC, here. 

Daten in Österreich

iab-austria.at, hier. 

Communication on Building a European Data Economy

EC, here; Commission Staff Working Document (49 pp.), here. 

Most Exponential Law Firms 2025

R. Talwar, A. Whittington, here. 

France does not currently need the new 3D printing laws that parliament is considering, say experts

Out-law.com, here. 

What if the iPhone had never arrived?

TechCrunch, here.

‘Alexa, are voicebots taking over?’

VentureBeat, here.

Top Economists Grapple With Public Disdain for Initiatives They Championed

WSJ, here. 

The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.

freeCodeCamp, here and here. 

The Humans Working Behind the AI Curtain

HBR, here. 

Behavioural economics – a critique of its policy conclusions

P. Booth, here. 

Flight Centre: Australian High Court finds agent competed with principal and breached cartel laws

J. Clarke, here. 

Take Me to Tomorrowland: The Cloud, Big Data, and the Internet of Things

V. Mosco, Video here. 

European civil law rules in robotics

EP, Study, here. 

I have seen the future: Alexa controls everything

ArsTechnica.co.uk, here. 

F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal

NYTimes, here. 

Regard d’un prix Nobel d’économie sur la politique concurrentielle

T. Schrepel, ici. 

Why go long on artificial intelligence?

N. Benaich, here. 

Deezer Hires Facebook, Spotify Managers to Fight Bigger Rivals

Bloomberg, here. 

Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button for Regulators

NYTimes, here. 

Uber Extends an Olive Branch to Local Governments: Its Data

NYTimes, here. 

What does 2017 hold for open data initiatives?

TheGuardian, here. 

EC-Karten-Kartell kommt vor den Kadi

Bargeldlosblog.de, hier. 

Policing the digital cartels

FT, here.

Big Data, algorithmes et marketing : rendre des comptes

C. Benavent, ici.

The ‘death of software patents’ in the US has been greatly exaggerated

Patentology, here.

Big Data, Open Data, Privacy Regulations, Intellectual Property and Competition Law in an Internet of Things World

B. Lundqvist, here.

CES 2017 Day 3 recap: The blurred lines between hyperpersonalization and user privacy

Mobilebusinessinsights, here.

How to Destroy the Business Model of Breitbart and Fake News

NYTimes, here.

Moral panic over fake news hides the real enemy – the digital giants

TheGuardian, here.

Was wird der Mensch?

FAZ, hier.

The Best Films of 2016 (for Behavioral Economists)

C. Sunstein, here.

Statement Regarding the Investigation into Alleged Anti-Competitive Conduct by Apple

Competition Bureau, here.

Alexa: Amazon's Operating System

Stratechery, here.

Why Amazon's Alexa is the future of computing

Vox, here.

(Machine) Learning Securely

Cacm.acm, here.

Bike courier wins 'gig' economy employment rights case

BBC, here.

U.S. loses bid to overturn AmEx antitrust decision

Reuters, here. 

Neue Ordnungsökonomik

FAZ, hier. 

Data politics and the internet of things

SiliconRepublic, here. 

Cross-Device Tracking: Measurement and Disclosures

FTC, here. 

If Only AI Could Save Us from Ourselves

TechnologyReview, here. 

Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 staff with AI

BBC, here. 

Uber drivers deemed to be employees by Swiss insurance provider

TechCrunch, here. 

Cashing in on dystopia

D. Bandurski, here. 

Book of the Week: Lack of effective antitrust oversight leaves us at the mercy of digital platforms

J. Powles, here. 

Data Financing for Global Good

Oxford Internet Institute, here. 

Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase

J. Castillo, E. Weyl, here. 

What So Many Strategists Get Wrong About Digital Disruption

F. Vermeulen, here. 

The Battle of the Tech Brains

Bloomberg, here. 

Tech Giants Seem Invincible. That Worries Lawmakers.

NYTimes, here. 

"Through A Glass, Darkly" Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages

R. Whitt, here. 

The death of the single price?

BBC, Money Box, Podcast here. 

Competition concerns over Mastercard/VocaLink merger

CMA, here. 

Adtech funding drops in face of Facebook-Google duopoly

FT, here.

“Even if you manage to build a sustainable advantage for a few years, how do you scale to compete with Google or Facebook? That’s why traditional adtech does feel dead from a venture perspective.”

Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas

TheEconomist, here.