Monday, August 19, 2019

Google discloses last year's acquisition of mobile learning app Socratic as it relaunches on iOS

TechCrunch, here

Techlash, the Aspen Way


Why Google’s rivals refuse to pay for a slice of the Android search market

The Week, here

DeepMind: The Podcast

Coming soon here

Column: AT&T’s promise of better pay-TV prices and service is ‘bordering on the absurd’

LATimes, here

Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite

NYTimes, here.
AAP's Statement here

What does it even mean to be a tech company in 2019?

Recode, here

Crypto Behemoth Binance Is Planning a Rival to Facebook’s Libra

Bloomberg, here

Privacy for the General Public? The Expansion of Privacy Regulation in California & Beyond

Our Curious Amalgam, Podcast here

Kartellrecht und Ökonomik: Institutions Matter!

O. Budzinski, J. Haucap, hier

Peter Altmaier erlaubt Fusion von Miba und Zollern

Handelsblatt, hier.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

UK data protection regulator launches King's Cross facial recognition probe

FT, here

CMA breaks up assistive communication technology merger

CMA, here

A ‘big data’ firm sells Cambridge Analytica’s methods to global politicians, documents show

Quartz, here

Apple is reportedly in talks to let Siri play Spotify tracks

Engadget, here

What an Ongoing Lawsuit Says About Google’s Power in Online Travel

Open Markets, here

Spain: Legal fight over an algorithm’s code

Algotithm Watch, here

CMA pharma probe secures £8m for the NHS

CMA, here

Irish regulator queries Facebook on transcription of users' audio

Reuters, here

Democratic U.S. senator asks Facebook CEO if he gave 'incomplete' testimony

Reuters, here

Spotify will reportedly test a price hike for its premium service in some markets

TechCrunch, here

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Amazon Is a Monopoly, an Interview With Sally Hubbard

MarketplacePulse, here

Huawei officially reveals Harmony OS, its first party operating system

XDADevelopers, here

EPIC, Legal Scholars, Technology Experts Publish Statement on US AI R&D Policy

EPIC, here

Europa braucht eine Antwort auf Chinas Industriepolitik

J. Haucap, hier

How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power

NYTimes, here

Google's jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals

Reuters, here

U.S. LEADERSHIP IN AI

NIST, here

Spotify’s pitch to podcasters: valuable listener data

The Verge, here

L'Autorité de la concurrence autorise sous conditions la création de la plateforme Salto

ADLC, ici

The Revolution Will Not Be Automated

Sydney Review of Books, here

Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle

C. Doctorow, here

Friday, August 09, 2019

Wednesday, August 07, 2019

AI and the Economy

Working Capital, Podcast and Transcript here

Japan's FTC probes Apple over pressuring parts makers

The Mainichi Shimbun, here

How much does Google know about you?

The Guardian, Podcast (at the beach) here

Japan's FTC demands action from four big contractors who keep cropping up in antitrust cases

Japan Times, here

Ten Things To Know About The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry

C. Beaton-Wells, here

Concealed Data Practices and Competition Law: Why Privacy Matters

K. Kemp, here

Twitter says it may have used user data for ads without permission

Reuters, here

Brexit: Food industry seeks no-deal competition waiver

BBC News, here

Antitrust гласность (glasnost): A summer thread

La nouvelle politique de Google sur Android fâche les moteurs de recherche indépendants

Le Monde, ici

Monday, August 05, 2019

FedNow: FAQs

Fed, here

Facebook fine reveals Congress has set up FTC to fail

J. Brookman, here

Joint statement on global privacy expectations of the Libra network

ICO et al., here

"IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization

EFF, here

European Competition Policy in Digital: What’s Next?

N. Petit, here

Merger Brief: SHARING is CAR-ing: Daimler/BMW/Car Sharing JV

Here

Merger brief: A remix of your favourite tunes of data issues in merger control (Apple/Shazam)

Here

Energy Data Taskforce Report

A blueprint for re-regulating the tech sector: ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report released

Corrs, here.

Google, Siri und Alexa US-Konzerne stoppen umstrittene Auswertungspraxis

Tagesspiegel.de, hier.

UK Government Launches ‘Smart Data’ Proposals as Data-Portability Agenda Intensifies

Latham & Watkins, here

Huawei tests smartphone with own operating system, possibly for sale this year: Chinese state media

Reuters, here

Takeaway.com and Just Eat agree food delivery tie-up

FT, here.

Goldman-Backed Apple Card Restricts Cryptocurrency Purchases

Bitcoin.com, here

Friday, August 02, 2019

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

The Verge, here

Banning cryptocurrencies in India not the solution: Nasscom

The Economic Times, here.
Report here.

Google to Ask Rivals to Bid to Be Default Search on Phones

Bloomberg, here.
More from Qwant here

Sprachassistenzsysteme auf dem Prüfstand – Datenschutzbehörde eröffnet Verwaltungsverfahren gegen Google

Datenschutz-hamburg.de, hier

Speech Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital Assets

SEC, here

Hot questions on data portability under the GDPR from Italy

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, here

Overseeing the Fintech Revolution: Domestic and International Perspectives on Fintech Regulation

Task Force on Financial Technology, Hearing, Video here (C. Woolard at 40:00, his written evidence here).
SEC's Fintech Forum, Video here

U.S. FTC Probes Facebook's Acquisition Practices-WSJ

NYTimes, here

How cities are using private sector data

J. Hardinges, here

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

The Verge, here

Amazon fera payer la « taxe GAFA » à ses vendeurs français

Le Monde, ici

Chinese financial services apps accused of overcollecting user data

TechNode, here.

Piano supplier fined £3.7m for illegally preventing price discounts

CMA, here

Jerome Powell: Fed 'seriously considering' faster payments system

Politico.com, here.

How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

Forbes, here

Challenge to FTC/Facebook 2019 Settlement

EPIC, here

AGCOM: AVVIATA ANALISI DI MERCATO NEL SETTORE DELLA PUBBLICITÀ ONLINE

AGCOM, here

Digital Platforms and Digital Moments

R. Picker, Video here