Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into proposed merger between Essilor and Luxottica

Press Release, here.

Google Splits Off Shopping Service to Meet EU Demands

Bloomberg, here.

Personal Data Economy

E. Hafen, Video here.

How the Russian search market looks now

SearchEngineLand, here.

Kontroverse um Piraterie-Studie der EU-Kommission

Heise.de, hier.

Trivago bought an AI startup that eased peoples’ fears about giving up data

FastCompany, here.

A Data Commons for Food Security

J. Baarbé, M. Blom, J. de Beer, here.

AI and Privacy

C. Tucker, Video here; slides here. Discussant's slides here.. 

Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac

TechCrunch, here. 

Digital comparison tools: Competitive landscape and effectiveness of competition

CMA, here. 

CMA steps in to give people a better deal on comparison sites

CMA, here. 

I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets

TheGuardian, here.