Fintech’s need to watch their digital backs – short-term lending banned by Google

Daily Fintech, here. 

Google, Mayo Clinic strike sweeping partnership on patient data

StatNews, here. 

Google’s cloud chief Thomas Kurian on antitrust, Amazon competition

CNBC, here. 

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that internet downloads of ebooks are covered by right of communication to the public, not distribution (so, no, there is no digital exhaustion under InfoSoc Directive)

IPKat, here. 

Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules

ArsTechnica, here and here. 

Tom Kabinet's Opinion

Here. 

MARGRETHE VESTAGER AGAIN!!!!!!!!

Announcement here, at (7:56, also from 54:00 and 1:04:00).

COMPETITION ISSUES IN THE DIGITAL ERA – EU DEVELOPMENTS

K. Fountoukakos, S. Hall, here. 

COMPETITION 4.0

D'Kart, here. 

48 states are probing Google on antitrust grounds. Why isn’t California?

LATimes, here. 

AdC condena 14 bancos a coima de 225 milhões de euros

AdC, aqui.

The Case for Employing Hybrid Welfare Standards in Antitrust Matters

S. Walker, Audio here. 

Technology Tencent Music Dives as Watchdog Probes Its Record-Label Ties

Bloomberg, here. 

Draft Guidelines Concerning Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Transactions between Digital Platform Operators and Consumers that Provide Personal Information

FTC Japan, here.