WeChat, Alipay to Block Crypto Transactions on Payment Platforms

Coin Desk, here. 

WEKO Sekretariat schliesst Vorabklärung zum Service Après-Vente für Uhren ab

Hier. 

CMA launches court action against viagogo

CMA, here. 

Inside Big Tech's D.C. survival strategies

Axios, here. 

Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

Bloomberg, here. Read also this 

HOW MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS, UNIVERSITIES AND BUSINESSES SURRENDER THEIR PRIVACY TO GOOGLE

Dailycaller, here. 

Is Silicon Valley home to this century’s robber barons?

N. Petit discusses with Jim Pethokoukis, Podcast here. 

Trump’s Ludicrous Attack on Big Tech

NYTimes, here. 

Big Data: is it bad for our health?

ABC, Podcast with F. Pasquale and J. Powles here. 

Der Digitalrat gibt Rätsel auf

FAZ, hier. 

TREB threatens legal action for realtors violating sales data rules

CP24, here. 

A Survey of Methods for Explaining Black Box Models

R. Guidotti et al. (sorry: too many Authors), here. 

Google VP of news: don't blame us for all the media's problems

ABC, here. 

Amazon-Whole Foods After One Year

Blog Symposium, here. 

Volkswagens Antwort auf Apple und Co.

FAZ, hier. 

SPD-Chefin Nahles will Tech-Riesen stärker regulieren und kooperative Plattformen fördern

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Can the taste of a cheese be protected by copyright?

Lexology,  here.

This Tomme is Art

Comisión Europea, Android y Google: ¿el bueno, el feo y el malo?

El Español, aquí. 

New US Legislation Would Hit Pause on Mega-Mergers

Competitivemarkets, here. 

Google says search results not biased towards any political ideology

FT, here. 

Experian Limited / Credit Laser Holdings (Clearscore)

CMA, Issues Statement here. 

Novos Trustes Na Era Digital: Efeitos Anticompetitivos Do Uso De Dados Pessoais Pelo Facebook

J. Krein, aqui. 

Sollten Google & Co. ihre Daten teilen?

WDR, hier. 

Facebook and Google Chase a New $1 Trillion Payments Market

Bloomberg, here. 

Google-Android-Entscheidung der EU: Marktmacht missbraucht?

U. Heimeshoff, hier. 

Germany Takes Aim at Internet Giants

Bloomberg, here.
Jahresbericht 2017 hier. 

OECD on Blockchain Technology and Competition Policy

Videos: 1, 2 and 3

Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently

Android Central, here. 

Google Korea faces antitrust probe for abusing game firms

The Korea Times, here. 

Dreist, dreister, Eventim

T3n.de, hier. S. auch
Bundeskartellamt untersagt Exklusivvereinbarungen zwischen CTS Eventim und Veranstaltern sowie Vorverkaufsstellen (04.12.2017), hier.

Statement of the EDPB on the data protection impacts of economic concentration

EDPB, here.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Central Banking

Bank of Canada, here. 

Competition, Stability, and Efficiency in Financial Markets

D. Corbae, R. Levine, here. Discussion here. 

How is Fintech changing the competitive structure of the financial service industry?

A. Schoar, here. 

How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets: A Study of Institutional Drift

G. Gutiérrez and T. Philippon, here. 

Understanding Weak Capital Investment: the Role of Market Concentration and Intangibles

N. Crouzet, J. Eberly, here. See also the Discussion here. 

Increasing Differences between firms: Market Power and the Macro-Economy

J. Van Reenen, here. See also here. 

Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy?

NYTimes, here. 

Google might be hiding the fact that its own reviews are shoddy

Yahoo, here.

Fortnite: A Tale of Two Operating Systems

DisCo, here. 

Android - Is There a Viable Monopolization Case?

S. Houck, here. 

Chap asks Facebook for data on his web activity, Facebook says no, now watchdog's on the case

The Register, here. 

TREB loses Supreme Court bid to appeal release of real estate sold figures

CBC, here. 

Supreme Court will not hear Toronto Real Estate Board’s appeal

Competition Bureau Canada, here.
More about the case here. 

23andMe will no longer let app developers read your DNA data

CNBC, here. 

Der Neoliberalismus wird achtzig

FAZ, hier. 

THE GOALS OF EU COMPETITION LAW AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

A. Ezrachi for BEUC, here. 

Doing Data Portability Right

DisCo, here. 

On the economics of the Google Android case

A. de Cornière, G. Taylor, here. 

Are U.S. Companies Too Big and Powerful? The Fed Wants to Know

The Washington Post, here. 

Reconciling the Matchmaker Economy with Competition Policy: A case study of Android, the European Commission case, and improper competition enforcement

D. Balto, M. Lane, here. 

Sanctionné par Bruxelles, Google agite la menace d'un Android payant

LesEchos.fr, ici. 

EU set to clear Apple's bid for music app Shazam: sources

Reuters, here. 

Platform companies have to learn to share

FT, here. 

Is Big Tech really all that BAD?

G. Manne on Competition Lore, Podcast here. 

Google tracks your movements, like it or not

NYTimes, here.

Cade pode investigar Google sobre sistema operacional para celulares, diz Valor

Reuters, aqui.

Qualcomm settles $774m antitrust dispute in Taiwan

FT, here. 

Norwegian banks co-operate on account aggregation programme

FinExtra, here. 

Two Views of Exclusion: Why the European Union and the United States Diverged on Google

W. Kovacic, here. 

ABUS D’EXPLOITATION : QUELS SONT LES NOUVEAUX RISQUES POUR LES ENTREPRISES ?

Concurrences, ici. 

Online Dating: Modern Love

The Economist, here. 

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea

J. Mickens, Video here.

ACCC's probe into Facebook and Google critical in bringing issues to the forefront

Financial Review, here. 

Privacy as a Non-Price Competition Parameter: Theories of Harm in Mergers

S. Esayas, here. 

Apple v. Pepper, Amicus Curiae Verizon

Here.

Endgültiger gemeinsamer Leitfaden zur neuen Transaktionswert-Schwelle in der Zusammenschlusskontrolle in Österreich und Deutschland veröffentlicht

BWB, hier. 

UK Financial Services Customer Survey 2018

Accenture, here. 

"Wir nehmen ja auch keine Rücksicht auf das Geschäftsmodell eines Steuerhinterziehers"

SZ, hier. 

Changes in Third-Party Content on European News Websites aft er GDPR

Reuters Institute, here. 

Google's data collection is hard to escape, study claims

CNN Tech, here. Study here. 

Platform companies have to learn to share

FT, here. 

Making markets deliver essential medicines

M. Vestager, here. 

Time for a New—and Effective—Antitrust

T. Greaney, S. Miller, here. 

Fragile or Smart Consumers? Suggestions for the US from the EU

G. Colangelo, M. Maggiolino, here. 

Apple defends decision not to remove InfoWars’ app

TechCrunch, here. 

Do competition authorities need to transform themselves in a digitally transformed world?

Competition Lore, Podcast here. 

Google's Android Monopoly Isn't Free

Forbes, here. 

The Second Digital Disruption: Data, Algorithms & Authorship in the 21st Century

K. Raustiale, C. Springman, here. 

Innovation Drives Competition — And Consumer Choice

G. Shapiro, here. 

Apple Pay in Deutschland: Aktuelle Liste, 44 Banken äußern sich

iTopnews, here. 

GARTER REPORTS “EARLY MAINSTREAM” ADOPTION FOR 3D PRINTING SERVICES IN AFRICA

3dprintingindustry.com, here. 

Thailand's Draft Data Protection Bill: Many Strengths, Too Many Uncertainties

G. Greenleaf, A. Suriyawongkul, here. 

Make “Fairness by Design” Part of Machine Learning

A. Abbasi, J. Li, G. Clifford, H. Taylor, here. 

The Chinese Smartphone Upstarts Taking on Apple and Samsung

Bloomberg, here. 

23ANDME'S PHARMA DEALS HAVE BEEN THE PLAN ALL ALONG

Wired, here. 

Economic policy for artificial intelligence

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

Platform Antitrust

E. Hovenkamp, here. 

Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism

NYTimes, here.

Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom

CommunityNetworks, here. 

Fortnite Has Picked a Favorite in the Battle Between Apple and Android

Bloomberg, here. 

Price monitoring software and competition – new possibilities for RPM in absence of sufficient deterrence

D. Mandrescu, here. 

Uncle Sam Should Put Consumers First in Its AT&T Appeal

Bloomberg, here. DoJ's Brief here. 

Taxis and Ride-Sharing Services: Alberto Heimler summarises OECD June 2018 discussion

Video here. Presentations here. 

Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data

TechCrunch, here. 

Google reveals Android P is named Pie, begins rollout to Pixel phones

VB, here and here. 

Why Apple Pay Is the Highest-Rated Mobile P2P Payment Service

Consumer Reports, here. 

Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users

WSJ, here. 

How Excessive Pharmaceutical Patenting is Extending Monopolies and Driving up Drug Prices

i-mak, here.

Dynamische Preisdifferenzierung

Verbraucherzentrale, hier.

Taxi and Uber Drivers Are United in Backing a Cap on Ride-Hail Vehicles

NYTimes, here. 

Tech Policy: State Attorneys General Pose Antitrust and Privacy Enforcement Risk to Google and Facebook; Could Initiate Android Case Like They Did US v. Microsoft

Capitol Forum, here. 

SAMR Policy: China Launches First Antitrust Probe into Digital Platforms, SAMR Official Says

Capital Forum, here. 

Grab wants to go way beyond ride-hailing in Asia, co-founder Hooi Ling Tan says

Recode, here. 

Fortnite Android ne sera pas sur le Google Play

Numérama, ici. 

Hard Questions: How Should Facebook and Other Companies Protect Privacy While Letting People Share Their Information Between Apps and Services?

FB Newsroom, here. 

Ausgerechnet mit ApplePay & GooglePay könnten deutsche Banken wieder Relevanz im DigitalPayment erhalten!

Paymentandbanking.com, hier. 

Blockchains: Regulating the Unknown

M. Finck, here. 

Er hat das Telefon neu erfunden

FAZ, hier. 

All you need to know about the Srikrishna panel’s draft data protection law

Scroll.in, here. 

Understanding Google's Search Platform and the Implications for Antitrust Analyses

J. Yun, here. 

Regulating Big Tech?

R. Epstein, here. 

German Appellate Court Rules on ICANN Request to Preserve WHOIS Data

ICANN, here. 

Innovationen – Herausforderung für die Kartellrechtspraxis

Protokoll zur Tagung des Arbeitskreises Kartellrecht, hier.

Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason

Quartz, here.

Apple Pay: Sparkasse und FDP fordern Freigabe für alle

IPhone-ticker.de hier.

The tech industry needs to reckon with the dark side of advertising, WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg says

Recode, here. 

Researcher explains how algorithms can create a fairer legal system

TechWorld, here. 

Handbook on European data protection law

 European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Council of Europe, here. 

‘SCRAPER’ BOTS AND THE SECRET INTERNET ARMS RACE

Wired, here.

Google Maps Says ‘the East Cut’ Is a Real Place. Locals Aren’t So Sure

NYTimes, here. 

ACM start marktstudie appstores voor mobiele telefoons

ACM, hier. 

Lessons for Australia in the EU’s algorithmic price war that ripped off consumers

R. Nicholls, here. 

RGPD : une extension ajoute un refus global sur les sites utilisant le module Quantcast Choice

Next Impact, ici. 

Who has been advising Carrefour on its strategic cooperation with Google?

Clifford Chance, here. 

Parity clauses of Booking.com now banned in Sweden for the benefit of consumers and hoteliers

TravelDailyNews, here. See also here.

Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Anger Among Workers

Bloomberg, here. 

Blockchain innovation in Europe

European Union Blockchain Observatory and Forum, here. 

The New Pythagoreans

C. Gilliard, H. Culik, here. 

UK appoints former Obama adviser to lead tech review

FT, here. 

What are data-opolies and should we be worried about them?

Competition Lore, Podcast here. 

When is a business a platform?

Competition Lore, Podcast here.

POWER AND PURPOSE: PROTECTING A COMPETITIVE POSITION AFTER ACCC V PFIZER (II)

Corrs.com.au, here. 

Audit the algorithms that are ruling our lives

FT, here. 

Remedies for Robots

M. Lemley, B. Casey, here. 

20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big Tech

Axios, here. Paper here.

Power Buster: EU Competition Commissioner MARGRETHE VESTAGER on populism and optimism

Anger Management with Nick Clegg, here (on the data economy: at 30:00).

Managing Competition on a Two-Sided Platform

P. Belleflamme, M. Peitz, here. 

Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review: Europe

T. Vinje, here. 

Fairness and Enforcement: Bridging Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law

I. Graef, D. Clifford, P. Valcke, here. 

Global Online Piracy Study

J. Poort, J. Quintais, M. van der Ende, A. Yagafarova, M. Hageraats, here. 

Rod Sims in conversation with Caron Beaton-Wells

Competition Lore, here. 

Opinion: "Are You A Bot?" Is The New "Are You A Cop?"

R. Calo, M. Lamo, here. 

How to define and regulate “data of general interest”?

B. Pailhès, here. 

Economic models of data: A complex relation between supply and demand

P. Belleflamme, here. 

Merger policy in the age of Facebook

A. Prat, T. Valletti, here. The. Paper is here

ECJ annuls Nestlé’s KitKat bar shape trademark

FT, here. 

The upside of making personal data portable

Mydex, here. 

Décision Android : comment les smartphones ont pris le pouvoir et comment le leur reprendre

Le Monde, ici. 

Market review into the supply of card-acquiring services

PSR, here.