Friday, March 29, 2019

Data sharing as pro-competition policy tool


Die Facebook-Entscheidung zum Nachlesen

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Wir Nutzerinnen sind der Kadaver

Matrix, heute hier

Apple Card raises pressure on banks — and fintechs

Payments Source, here

The Legal Challenges of the Data Economy

Conference, video here.
Randy Picker's presentation at 5:34:04, his slides are here

BBC pulls its podcasts from Google Podcasts and Assistant

The Verge, here

Skepsis bei EU-Ministererlaubnis

WiWo, hier

Consumer Data Right Draft Rules

ACCC, here

How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability

D. Watts, here

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Amazon Pay inks Worldpay integration as it branches out in the wider world of e-commerce

TechCrunch, here

Kaspersky Lab files antitrust complaint over iOS Screen Time

The Verge, here

European Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising

Here

Is Brave The Next Chrome?

Nasdaq, here

Third EU Google decision announced today

Google overhauls European search results to avoid probe

FT, here

Open banking explored in Canada

Law Times, here.
Consultation document here

“I have HIV, now what?” Tracking cookies found on NHS advice pages

Newstatesman, here

Supporting choice and competition in Europe

Google, here.

Monday, March 18, 2019

Google Changes How It Displays Ads in Bid to Please EU

Bloomberg, here

Les abus de dépendance économique seront davantage sanctionnés

Lecho.be, ici

An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software

J. Gamba et al., here

Google's Display Advertising Stack (simplified)


Why are fintechs getting a regulatory pass?

American Banker, here

Tech: economists wanted

AEA, here. The article is here.

Argumente gegen ein Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger

MPI for Innovation and Competition, hier

"Wir brauchen einen faireren globalen Wettbewerb"

Der Tagesspiegel, hier

EU Industrial Policy After Siemens-Alstom

EPSC, here

The Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the world – but it didn't change Facebook

The Guardian, here

Tech investors include #MeToo clauses in start-up deals

FT, here

Margethe Vestager on Recode Decode

Recode Decode, here

Germany's Competition Agency Cracks Down On Facebook: But Is Antitrust The Right Tool For The Job?

Forbes, here

Das schlaue Örtchen – Die Toilette wird Hightech- und Designerprodukt

Heise.de, hier

ACM to complete market study into mobile app stores in April

ACM, here

Margrethe Vestager to hit Google with another fine

FT, here

PSD2: Banken müssen Drittanbieter-APIs für Testphase freigeben

Heise.de, hier.

Trusting in Antitrust: Actions Against Big Tech Are Now Palatable

NYTimes, here

Platforms and the Rule of Reason: The American Express Case

H. Hovenkamp, here

EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites

FT, here

Antitrust and Silicon Valley: New Themes and Direction in Competition Law and Policy

Santa Clara University, Schedule and Video.

A Brief History of "Silicon Valley Antitrust" from 3:33:05.






Monopolization and the Problems of Dominance and Anti-competitive Performance from 5:41:50.

Facebook’s Biblically Bad Week

K. Swisher, here

Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers

Charged, here

Break up Google, says News Corp

InnovationAus.com, here

Apple Defends App Store Policies After Spotify’s Antitrust Complaint

NYTimes, here

Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions

K. Bryan, E. Hovenkamp, here

GDPR and AdTech with Brave

The Capitol Forum, here

Addressing Spotify’s claims

Apple, here

Investment platforms market study: Consultation Paper

FCA, here

Furman Review: Access to data is a new tool against monopoly

ODI, here.

Competition and Europe’s digital future

M. Vestager, here

How big data really fits into lending

FT, here

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

TechCrunch, here

UK competition regulator to examine digital advertising

FT, here

ACCC Preliminary report submissions: selected extracts and key points

NewsMediaWorks, here

Competition policy must change to help startups fight ‘winner takes all’ platforms, says UK report

TechCrunch, here

Spotify files EU antitrust complaint against Apple

Reuters, here.
See also here.

CMA welcomes Furman Review recommendations

CMA, here.
Furman Review here

Amazon, MFNs, and Second-Best Antitrust

R. Woodcock, here

Why regulation needs an overhaul

Nesta, here

Calling on Apple and Google to improve information on personal data in their app stores

Forbrukertilsynet, here

Google Gets Serious On Travel Bookings

AdExchanger, here

WILL DELIVEROO AND UBER BE CAPTURED BY THE PROPOSED EU PLATFORM REGULATION? YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT…

P. van Cleynenbreugel, here

Amazon to end price practice critics said could violate antitrust law

Axios, here

Digital Conglomerates and EU Competition Policy

Cerre.eu, here

HEARING ON “LOWERING THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: REDUCING BARRIERS TO MARKET COMPETITION”

Video, here

Technology vs. trust: Why this Wharton professor thinks blockchain’s time is yet to come

The Inquirer, here

Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model

The Economist, here

Four possible loopholes in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA)

Brave, here

Hearing on Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets

Video here

Since when is Apple owning the App Store a problem?

J. Gans, here

Google Search Dominance Has Businesses Paying for Their Name

Bloomberg, here

Beware of the Update Uproar (bit more than one week)


Friday, March 08, 2019

OSS AND FRAND: COMPLEMENTARY MODELS FOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

V. Lindberg, here

When breaking up makes no sense

J. Gans, here

Here’s how we can break up Big Tech

E. Warren, here

This could be the beginning of the end for Facebook’s social network

Recode, here

Zuckerberg’s new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up

MIT Technology Review, here

FCO Facebook Quadriptych

V. Robertson, A. Burnside, D. Auer, R. Nazzini, here

Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA

TechCrunch, here

12 women shaping AI

Nesta, here

The Servant Economy

The Atlantic, here

Data Trusts

K. O'Hara, here

Thursday, March 07, 2019

‘The industry has to hit the reset button’: Advertisers’ annual gathering sees new solutions to old problems

DigiDay UK, here

SCALABILITY, INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF BLOCKCHAINS

The European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum, here

The Limits of Ethical A.I

J. Ito, Video here

What does the world look like to AI?

The Verge, here

EC accepts commitments by Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sky on cross-border pay-TV services

EC Press Release, here

How and why consumers buy cryptoassets

A Report for the FCA, here

Trump’s Big Tech Bluster

Open Markets Institute, here

German fintech Raisin buys bank

FinExtra, here

The political economy of Facebook’s platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance

D. Nieborg, A. Helmond, here

The case against Amazon

Politico.eu, here

Facebook’s pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it’s real

The Verge, here. See also here.
Some more background, perhaps: here.

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Mexican central bank in talks with Amazon about new mobile payments

Reuters, here

Just desserts: CADE fines company for exclusivity practices in ice cream market

ILO, here

Autokonzerne sahen Dieselkrise kommen – „Ohne Bescheißen werden wir es nicht schaffen“

Handelsblatt, hier

RPT-Indian central bank fines 19 lenders for non-compliance on SWIFT use

Reuters, here

Companies Falsely Labeled Products ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Their Financial Penalty? $0.

NYTimes, here

ACCESS TO CASH REVIEW

Here

False negatives' recalibration

D. Malamed, here

Binge-Bying and the Rest

J. Kwoka, here

COMESA Competition Commission Closes Investigation into Resale Price Maintenance in the Distribution Agreements between Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Proprietary Limited and its Distributors

COMESA, here

Who’s Really Winning the Direct Booking Wars Between Hotels and Online Travel Agencies?

Skift, here

Missing Link: KI - die Künstlichen Idioten des digitalen Kapitalismus

Heise.de, hier.

Autokonzerne suchen Heil in Koalitionen

StN.de, hier

Tuesday, March 05, 2019

The State of AI 2019: Divergence

MMC Ventures, here

El poder popular i la ciutat

F. Bria, Video here.

"Industriepolitik der Bundesregierung würde deutsche Exportunternehmen gefährden"

M. FRATZSCHER, T. DUSO, hier.

Platforms, American Express, and the Problem of Complexity in Antitrust

C. Sagers, here

Audizione della Commissaria europea per la Concorrenza, Margrethe Vestager

Documentazione per le Commissioni, qui.  

10 Ans Autorité de la concurrence: Félicitations!

"La" Conférence ici en direct

Global Data Privacy: The EU Way

P. Schwartz, here

Unfair Disruption

M. Lemley, M. McKenna, here

Exclusionary Conduct in Data-Driven Markets: Limitations of Data Sharing Remedy

V. Kathuria, J. Globocnik, here

Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

NYTimes, here

Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception

ArsTechnica, here

Google rejects ACCC's calls to have tougher scrutiny over Australian operations

ZDNet, here.
And the other submissions here

Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

J. Tirole, P. Rey, here