Thursday, September 27, 2018

Big Tech’s Purchases of Startups Under Microscope, FTC Chief Says

Big Law Business, here.

Android Phones are 10: For once, Google won fair and square

The Register, here.

Petrobras to pay $853m to resolve bribery charges in the US

FT, here.

How Do Hub-and-Spoke Cartels Operate? Lessons from Nine Case Studies

J. Harrington, here.

Open Government Data Report

OECD, here.

Competition Bureau to investigate Ticketmaster after CBC News/Toronto Star scalper investigatio

CBC, here.

European countries join Blockchain Partnership

DSM, here.

Italy joined today.

AI Strategies

T. Dutton, here

El retraso de la ley de pagos electrónicos en España provoca la fuga de las fintech a Irlanda

VozPopuli, aquì

Observatory on the Online Platform Economy Launched

Here.
No website yet?

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

Gizmodo, here

America’s Courts Can’t Ignore the World

The Atlantic, here.

Warning! Bias alert, here

The case for publicly enforced online rights

E. Morozov, here

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Platforms, ad industry unveil self-regulatory code to fight online disinformation

IAPP, here

Supreme Court upholds validity of Aadhaar, BJP calls it a historic judgement

Scroll-in, here. Ruling here

High time for rhyme and reason

P. Marsden, here



A bit "banalization of hipster," IMHO, but I can totally subscribe to this one:



and I'm also a bit of an"open movement" devotee myself:





Google announces an opt-out feature to ‘forced login’ on Chrome coming in mid-Oct

TechCrunch, here

Twitter’s approach to privacy

D. Kieran, here.

Amazon’s Approach to Privacy

Andrew DeVore, here.

Vendita biglietti per i concerti di musica dal vivo: avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Ticketone

A523, Provvedimento qui

Margrethe Vestager at Bloomberg Global Business Forum 2018

Video here, here.

Australian agency claims blockchain breakthrough

FinExtra, here

Regulator calls in Paypal's $2.2bn iZettle merger on day it completes

Cityam.com, here.

See CMA, here.


Cartel in the smart card chip market: Philips’ appeal dismissed and Infineon’s fine needs a second look

Judgments in Cases C-98/17 P Koninklijke Philips NV and Philips France v Commission and C-99/17 P Infineon Technologies AG v Commission, Press Release here.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

The Effective Competition Standard: A New Standard for Antitrust

M. Steinbaum, M. Stucke, here

Exhaustion of intellectual property rights if there’s no Brexit deal

Gov.UK, here

UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Confirms Ban on Online Sales Is Inherently Restrictive of Competition

Cooley, here

Trust in blockchain based decentralized data infrastructures

B. Bodó et al., here

Nudge Turns 10: A Q&A With Cass Sunstein

Behavioral Scientist, here

ICO consults on privacy “regulatory sandbox”

Covington, here

Salesforce, AWS expand partnership with secure data sharing between platforms

TechCrunch, here

Public Consultation on Digital Ethics: Summary of outcomes

EDPS, here

European tech companies call on EU to toughen regulations

FT, here

John Oliver explains how Facebook is wreaking havoc overseas

Vox, here

The Alphabet Soup of Regulators in the Crypto Space Just Added a Few More Letters

Texas Lawyer, here

Intelligence artificielle : les banques françaises tâtonnent encore

La Tribune, ici

Analysing Apple Pay Transactions

Elcomsoft, here

Have ‘Big Tech’ Platforms Got Too Much Power?

S. King, here

Data, Innovation and Transatlantic Competition in Finance: The Case of the Access to Account Rule

G. Colangelo, O. Borgogno, here

The uncertain future for banking and regulation

S. King, here

Amazon Is Invading Your Home With Micro-Convenience

The Atlantic, here

Big Tech is overselling AI as the solution to online extremism

The Conversation, here

Google’s Forced Sign-in to Chrome Raises Privacy Red Flags

ThreatPost.com, here. See also here

STRATEGY ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES

UN Secretary General, here

How Platform Strategies Continue to Create Value

G. Parker, M. Van Alstyne, and P. Evans, here

AB InBev faces EU antitrust fine in Belgian beer case - sources

Reuters, here

Apple completes acquisition of Shazam, will remove ads from free version

Android Police, here

The Cryptocurrency Market

Source: @OxfordCompEcon

Why Instagram’s founders are leaving: dwindling independence from Facebook

TechCrunch, here

Monday, September 24, 2018

Drivers for Uber, Lyft are earning less than half of what they did four years ago, study finds

Market Watch, here

Helping the digital economy keep its promises

M. Vestager, here

Radical Markets versus Sensible Politics

Radical Markets, here

Bank customers increasingly open to big tech alternatives

FinExtra, here

The Ring is the smartphone

HT @flysanityfly

U.S. way behind the curve on open banking

American Banker, here

More on Chrome updates and headers

Unsearcher, here

Scott Galloway’s provocative predictions on Amazon, Walmart and the future of retail

Recode, here

Blockchain: Premiers éléments d’analyse

CNIL, ici

The Challenge of Digital Markets: First, Let Us Not Forget the Lessons Learnt Over the Years

P. Ibáñez Colomo, G. De Stefano, here

The next antitrust standoff — Big Tech’s use of data

Politico.eu, here

Grab-Uber Merger: CCCS Imposes Directions on Parties to Restore Market Contestability and Penalties to Deter Anti-Competitive Mergers

CCCS, here.

Singapore competition watchdog fines Uber and Grab $9.5m

FT, here

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Why the government must help shape the future of AI

Brookings, here.

Advantage China in the race to control AI?

FT, here.

The White House is considering an antitrust investigation into 'online platform bias' at Google and Facebook — read the leaked document here

Business Insider, here. See also here.

The Welfare Effects of Information

C. Sunstein, here.

Fifa transfer algorithm is 'ridiculous', says Premier League chief

The Telegraph, here.

Commission opens formal investigation into possible collusion between BMW, Daimler and the VW group on clean emission technology

EC, here.

Building smart transport with trust and confidence

M. Vestager, here.

E-mail: Google CEO denies bias in search results

Axios, here.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements

Bloomberg, here

Android and Forking Restrictions: On the Hidden Closedness of “Open” (new, extended, more relaxed version)

S. Vezzoso (me), here.


French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon

The Guardian, here

Google admits changing phone settings remotely

BBC, here

Commission opens formal investigation into possible collusion between BMW, Daimler and the VW group on clean emission technology

EC, here

BUNDESKARTELLAMT VS FACEBOOK: TIME TO REFRESH ‘GDPR’S WALL’?

A. Massolo, here

THE ONLINE HOTEL BOOKING MONITORING EXERCISE

F. Manca, here

COPYRIGHTS ON DATA AND COMPETITION POLICY IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET STRATEGY

V. Falce, here

ALGORITHMIC OPACITY AND EXCLUSION IN ANTITRUST LAW

M. Patterson, here

Resale Price Maintenance and Artificial Intelligence

Hausfeld, here

Google-Deal lässt Aktienkurs von Tomtom um 30 Prozent fallen

FAZ, hier

Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl: Reformierte Verbandsarbeit

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht, hier

Germany high court postpones YouTube intellectual property case for EU interpretation

Jurist.org, here

What is blocking blockchains? A common sense, legal evaluation

E. Mik, here

Google partners with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi to put Android into millions of vehicles

TechCrunch, here

Monday, September 17, 2018

U.S. to Spare Some Apple Goods From Latest China Tariffs, Sources Say

Bloomberg, here

Top German court delays YouTube illegal uploads case to seek EU opinion

Euractiv, here

An Estonian Startup Is Undercutting Billion-Dollar Gaming Stores

Bloomberg, here

Le plan qui fait trembler les revues scientifiques

Le Monde, ici

New York sues the OCC over fintech charter rule

FinExtra, here

Banks jump on to the fintech bandwagon

FT, here

German Digital Market Power Modernization - Update

D. Sokol, here

The German Monopolies Commission’s Proposals Regarding Pricing Algorithms

Covington, here

Developments in competition law in Australia in 2018

Clifford Chance, here

Amazon should split into two companies to avoid antitrust scrutiny from Trump administration: Citi

CNBC, here

What makes a monopoly in the age of Amazon?

CNN, here

Salesforce expands integrations between its clouds, Google Analytics 360

ZDNet, here

EU antitrust ruling on Microsoft buy of GitHub due by October 19

Reuters, here

Spotify can tell if you’re sad. Here’s why that should scare you

The Guardian, here.

Google aktivierte von außen Stromsparmodus auf Android-9-Smartphones

Der Standard, hier.

Amazon Investigates Report That Employees Leaked Data for Bribes

Bloomberg, here

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Friday, September 14, 2018

Apple 'wants to serve everyone,' says Tim Cook

Asian Review, here.

Class action in Italia contro Facebook: richiesta di rimborso per l’uso ‘abusivo’ dei dati

Business Insider, qui

F.T.C. Hearings Add to Efforts That Threaten Tech Industry

NYTimes, here

Think writing process

Ubernomics: Platform Monopolies & How to Fix Them

R. Pollock, here

Behördliche Durchsetzung des Verbraucherrechts?

R. Podszum, C. Busch, F. Hennig-Bodewig, hier

Viele Apps halten sich nicht an die neuen Datenschutzregeln

Handelsblatt, here

Open Energy

Fingleton Associates, here

Anatomy of an AI System

K. Crawford, V. Joler, here

IA, Big Data, robots : quels bénéfices en attendre ? À quelles conditions ?

Anvie, ici

FAIR PLAY: Apple’s Shazam Deal Shows EU Eyeing, Not Halting, Big Data

Bloomberg, here

Teller has abused its dominant position by using rebates conditional on exclusivity and provisions regarding exclusivity

Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, here

A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI

S. Wachter, B. Mittelstadt, here

Zu hohe Maklergebühren? Grüne fordern Kartellamts-Prüfung

Die Welt, hier

Haftung von YouTube für Urheberrechtsverletzungen

Bundesgerichtshof, hier.

Promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

EP, Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Draft Report, here

SENIOR GOOGLE SCIENTIST RESIGNS OVER “FORFEITURE OF OUR VALUES” IN CHINA

The Intercept, here

Sector Inquiry Health

The Austrian Pharmacy Market, here

Congress seeks probe of deepfakes

Axios, here

FTC Hearings

FTC, here. Videos available here.

Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies

S. athey, M. Luca, here

iTunes: Verwirrung um verschwundene Filme

Heise.de, hier. 

Man jailed in Italy for selling fake TripAdvisor reviews

The Guardian, here