Dow/DuPont: Another step towards a proper assessment concept of the innovation effects of mergers

W. Kerber, S. Vezzoso, Presentation here.

Motivations to Scale

Nesta, here. 

New economy, new finance, new Bank

Bank of England, here. 

Big tech in finance: opportunities and risks

BIS, here. 

ALGORITHMS AS ILLEGAL AGREEMENTS

M. Gal, here. 

Bundesbank-Präsident und weitere Notenbanker warnen vor Facebooks Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier. 

Public Comments of 43 State Attorneys General

FTC Hearings, here. 

CMA expects Facebook and eBay to tackle sale of fake reviews

CMA, here. 

Libra Q&A thread

Here.

Populism or overpopulation? When antitrust really matters

Economic Times, here. 

BCCP Conference 2019 Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: The Rise of Corporate Power

Livestream now here. Conference program here. 

Ycor withdraws from Sizmek bid, paving the way for Amazon's adtech ambitions

The Drum, here. 

Do biologics really need 12 years of market exclusivity?

Statnews, here. 

Facebook usage has collapsed since scandals, data shows

The Guardian, here. 

Enable, Empower, Ensure: A New Finance for the New Economy

M. Carney, here. 

Battle intensifies to unlock value in the ‘internet of things’

FT, here. 

Google releases open-source tool to assist in secure data sharing

iapp, here. 

Méga alliance belge pour contrer les Gafa

L'Echo, ici. 

Surveillance Capitalism

Exponential View, Podcast here (on Google Podcasts).

The “Too Big to Fail” Problem

S. Omarova, here. 

Post-M&A Synergies and Changes in Development Trajectory of Pharmaceutical Firm

H. Meder, here. 

Adtech industry operating illegally, rules UK regulator

FT, here.

Four big questions facing Facebook’s Libra coin

FT, here. 

Facebook's Libra will not help the unbanked

FT, here. 

Danish DPA approves Automated Facial Recognition

EDRi, here. 

Japan's antitrust law amended to encourage companies under investigation to cooperate with FTC

Japan Times, here. 

Facebook-Weltwährung: Geht's noch?

Finews.ch, hier. 

Alipay's AI wealth tech platform adopted by six out of ten China's asset managers

FinExtra, here. 

Should’ve Stayed in Vegas

Your Undivided Attention Podcast, here.

Update report into adtech and real time bidding

ICO, here. 

The EU wants to create 10 million smart lampposts

WEF, here. 

Platforms and Blockchain Will Transform Logistics

S. Choudary, M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, here. 

Facebook’s Libra: blockchain, but without the blocks or chain

FT, here (do not miss the comments ;-)).

To Take Down Big Tech, They First Need to Reinvent the Law

NYTimes, here. 

GC: Adidas

T-307/17, here. 

Green light to the Digital Markets Unit

‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.

NYTimes, here. 

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Libra: Not to be Confused with Libre

Privacy International, here.

Technological change shapes markets in ways participants do not expect

P. Roscoe, here. 

Some tweets on Facebook's Libra

O. Havrylchyk, here. 

Termination of Legacy Antitrust Judgments

DoJ, here.

Major publisher group DCN tells regulators “the sky won’t fall” if RTB switches to safe, non-personal data.

Brave, here. 

What if We All Just Sold Non-Creepy Advertising?

NYTimes, here. 

IBM to win unconditional EU okay for $34 billion Red Hat deal: sources

Reuters, here. 

Consultation on Open Banking designation instrument (second round)

AU Government, here. 

Dealing with mergers in a digital age

M. Vestager, here. 

Facebook’s Undemocratic Currency

M. Stoller, here. 

Facebook’s cryptocurrency has a trust problem

The Verge, here. 

Facebook’s Libra: Three things we don’t know about the digital currency

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Sorry, Mr. Delrahim: Big Tech’s Worst Abuses Can’t Be Cured Without Stiffer Regulation

H. Singer, here. 

Activists Urge Google to Break Up Before Regulators Force It To

NYTimes, here. 

Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know

TechCrunch, here. 

Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”

N. Tusikov, here. 

Are eIDAS certificates sufficient for PSD2 Open Banking?

FinExtra, here. 

Braucht es mehr materielles Kartellrecht für digitale Plattformen?

S. Louven, hier.

Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers

TechCrunch, here. 

Market Design for a Blockchain-Based Financial System

C. Catalini, R. Jagadeesan, S. Kominers, here. 

UN makes ‘declaration of digital interdependence’, with release of tech report

UN News, here. 

Cofece bloqueó la compra de Cornershop porque Walmart habría podido utilizar datos de minoristas rivales

El Economista, aquì. 

Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet

FT, here. 

Control de operaciones de concentración en plataformas digitales: qué dice el reporte externo encargado por la CMA británica

FN.cl, aquì. 

Why we joined the Libra Association

J. Gans, here. 

How a Dispute Over Rap Lyrics Illustrates That Google Has Too Much Power

Slate, here. 

WIPO Director General Gurry on AI and IP

WIPO, here. 

What a Facebook breakup would mean for investors

Yahoo Finance, here. 

Suppliers of antidepressants accused of illegal anti-competitive conduct

CMA, here. 

GAFAM : le déclin de l’empire américain ?

April, here. 

Facebook, Google brace for the release of Australia’s ground-breaking digital platforms report

MLex Podcast, here. 

ONE YEAR UNDER THE EU GDPR

AccessNow, here. 

Bitcoin Antitrust

Didyouknowcrypto, here. 

Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings

TechCrunch, here. 

Market disruptors' impact on the future of blockchain

Deloitte, here. 

THE SEPARATION OF PLATFORMS AND COMMERCE

L. Khan, here. 

Google allegedly used stolen Genius lyrics, caught through Morse code trick

AndroidPolice, here. 

Banks accused of overcharging small customers for forex services

FT, here. 

The Common Ownership Boom - Or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Antitrust

A. Tzanaki, here. 

Potential for Discrimination in Online Targeted Advertising

T. Speicher et al, here. 

The truth behind the dumbest GDPR myths, one year later

Wired, here. 

Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: "15 years battling Google"

Danny in the Valley, Podcast here. 

Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics

G. Akerlof, here. 

Here’s Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends report

TechCrunch, here. 

Bons et mauvais Chinois

Le Monde, ici. 

Amazon seeks to revive its faltering loans business

FT, here. 

AI: inhuman after all?

Spiked, here. 

Google Stadia has kicked off a new age of gaming data harvesting

Wired, here. 

Face aux GAFA

E. Combe.

Hotel Site Accuses Booking, Expedia of EU Antitrust Breaches

Bloomberg, here. 

Tech and Antitrust

Stratechery, here. 

Anger at Big Tech Unites Noodle Pullers and Code Writers. Washington Is All Ears

New York Times, here. 

Why Salesforce's Tableau Buy Might Be A Blunder

Forbes, here. 

Antitrust Probe Starts Today With Focus On Big Tech's Profits From News

Forbes, here. 

Warren Demands DOJ Antitrust Head Recuse Himself From Google, Apple Probes

Bloomberg, here. 

Datenökonomie

bpb, APUZ, hier. 

Kartellrecht in der Datenökonomie

R. Podszun, hier. 

Jeux vidéo : Ubisoft fait le pari de la blockchain

Les Echos, ici. 

Huawei's operating system in pipeline

China Daily, here. 

Revolut dials up Apple Pay

FinExtra, here. 

Thermo Fisher scraps Roper deal after U.K. antitrust hurdle

Reuters, here. 

Microsoft President Says 'Hipster Antitrust' Is Coming

Fortune, here.
Antitrust: Video, from 18:47.

General Principles of Law in EU Antitrust Law

M. Hjärtström, J. Nowag, here. 

By calling Huawei Android fork a security risk, Google contradicts its own open source arguments

Venture Beat, here. 

Account information now in Rabobank's PSD2 store

FinExtra, here. 

No License, No Chips? No Dice: Dissecting Judge Koh's Opinion in FTC v. Qualcomm

Washington Bytes, here. 

The different approaches to increasing access to data while retaining trust

J. Hardinges, P. Wells, here. 

Data Extra Commercium

V. Janeček, G. Malgieri, here. 

Sports Data Policies Could Represent Next Big Antitrust Challenge For Pro Sports Leagues

Forbes, here. 

Trump Questions Whether UTC-Raytheon Deal Hurts Competition

Bloomberg, here. 

Brave's Presentation to FTC tech taskforce

J. Ryan, here. 

PM speech opening London Tech Week

T. May, here. 

Roche's $4.3 billion Spark bid delayed again amid U.S., UK scrutiny

Reuters, here. 

The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined

S. Zuboff, here. 

Digital disruption in financial markets: Presentations available!

OECD (bravi), here.

(Links to several countries' contributions not working though).

And my ASCOLA 2018 presentation ICYMI here. 

Sir Tim versus Black Mirror

Still my fav

E. Zuckerman, here. 

Competition policy: access to data, and more

P. Wells, Presentation here.

What Duopoly? Why Amazon’s Sizmek Purchase Is Just The Next Step In Its March Toward Ad Dominance

AdExchanger, here. 

Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation: Especially for YouTube and Facebook.

Slate, here. 

Three ways that Big Tech could be broken up

FT, here. 

Blockchain's Appeal Is Limited for Retail Banks, McKinsey Says

Bloomberg, here. 

How to rein in the web of lies

Chatman House, here. 

Google to Buy Data Analytics Company Despite New Antitrust Scrutiny

NYtimes, here.

Machine Learning and AI as business tools: Threat or blessing for competition?

CCP 15th Annual Conference 6th – 7th June 2019, Blog post here

Facebook plant eigene Kryptowährung

FAZ, hier. 

Google übernimmt den BI-Spezialisten Looker für 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar

Heise.de, hier. 

From Innovation Hub to Innovation Culture

FCA, here. 

Making Big Tech companies share data could do more good than breaking them up

MIT Technology Review, here. 

Facebook’s Anticompetitive Lean in Strategies

L. Lovdall Gormsen, J.T. Llanos, here. 

A duty of care to prevent online exploitation of consumers? Digital dominance and special responsibility in EU competition law

W. Sauter, here. 

IBM withdraws notification of its acquisition of staff, hardware and software from T-Systems’ mainframe business after the Bundeskartellamt expressed concerns

Bundeskartellamt, here. 

iOS developers file class-action against Apple over ‘profit killing’ App Store practices

9to5mac.com, here. 

Google erweitert die Pay API für umfangreichere Bezahloptionen

Heise, hier. 

Kelkoo ready to take Google complaint to U.S. antitrust regulators - CEO

Reuters, here. 

Report: Facebook plans to create independent foundation to manage its cryptocurrency; will charge members $10M licensing fees for right to operate node

The Block, here. 

Amazon executive says company welcomes scrutiny of big tech

Reuters, here. 

How Big Tech funds the debate on AI ethics

NewStatesman, here. 

The Fintech Bubble Floats Toward a $64 Billion Pin

Bloomberg, here. 

Competition and Regulation in the Data Economy

Panel, videos here. 

Governance of Data in IoT Contexts

W. Kerber, Presentation here. 

Microsoft quietly deletes largest public face recognition data set

FT, here. 

Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU court advisor

TechCrunch, here. 

Konzern liest mit: Facebook trackt Nutzer auf drei Viertel aller deutschen Nachrichtenseiten

Netzpolitik.org, hier. 

Apple announces new sign-in tool to compete with Facebook and Google

The Verge, here. 

UK financial regulator clamps down on peer-to-peer investment

FT, here. 

"Daten müssen nicht böse sein"

SZ, hier. 

ASSISTANTS VOCAUX ET ENCEINTES CONNECTÉES: l’impact de la voix sur l’offre et les usages culturels et médias

Hadopi, CSA, ici. 

Uber’s Path of Destruction

American Affairs, here. 

Aptoide, a Play Store rival, cries antitrust foul over Google hiding its app

TechCrunch, here. 

Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System

The Law Society, here. 

Hotelbuchungen im Internet: "Enge" Bestpreisklauseln sind zulässig

OLG Düsseldorf, hier. 

Vertical Mergers in the Technology, Media and Telecom Sector

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

The standard of review by courts in competition cases

OECD Secretariat, Background Note, here. 

PayPal invests in Tink

FinExtra, here. 

Facebook in talks with US regulator over digital currency

FT, here. 

Vestager’s grand plan for regulating the digital economy

Euractiv, here. 

House Judiciary Committee Launches Antitrust Investigation of Tech Giants

Daily Beast, here.
More here. 

Project explAIn: Interim report

ICO, here. 

Apple Backs Off Crackdown on Parental-Control Apps

NYTimes, here. 

Digital disruption in financial markets

OECD Background Note (by X. Vives), here. 

Platforms and Ecosystems: Enabling the Digital Economy

WEF, here. 

Google and Amazon Shares Slide as Antitrust Concerns Mount

NYTimes, here.

When will Uber feel the techlash?

UnHerd, here. 

Europe’s record offers cautions for a U.S. battle with Google

Politico.eu, here. 

Rachat de WhatsApp: "Facebook a induit Bruxelles en erreur"

Le Monde, ici. 

Ex-post Assessment of Merger Control Decisions in Digital Markets

Lear for the CMA, here. 

Competition in the digital age: reflecting on digital merger investigations

A. Coscelli, here. 

Conference on Competition and the Digital Economy

OECD, Conference Live here.