How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg

 France24.com, here.

Totally disagree with the myopic economist's comment 😊

OpenX v. Google

Here.

Curbing Google’s Dominance: The UK’s First Test of Its New Digital Competition Powers [Promising?]

 KGI, here.

Well...Problematic to say the least is "making its next steps contingent on the decisions of a US district court." 

Nextcloud-CEO: “Digitale Souveränität ist für mich nicht gelöst”

 Computerwoche.de, hier.

Submission on Proposed SMS Guideline from an Independent Media Alliance

 Here.

Japan: Regulator takes aim at app store - as in Europe.

Heise.de, here. 

Guidelines here.  

The Guidelines are essential reading. Not just from a European vantage point, and not merely as part of a deepening dialogue between the EU and Japan. It matters equally for jurisdictions already exploring DMA-like regimes, and for others now stirred into action.

From what I’ve seen so far, this may well be the first unmistakable success of the DMA’s extraterritorial footprint. A quiet vindication of the bold choices made by the Commission and co-legislators since 2020. No legal instrument is flawless, of course. But if others now refine what we’ve built into the DMA, there should be a clear and iterative path to integrate such improvements.

Ecosia, European Eco-Friendly Search Engine: Boosting Competition in Digital Area

"Chez Oles," here.

The conversation with Ecosia’s Wolfgang Oels was recorded at the height of the Trump/EU trade frenzy, when whispers of the DMA’s untimely demise were making the rounds. But rumours (spread by whom, I wonder) they were. If anything, things are only now starting to get serious 🤠. And gatekeepers' competitors like Ecosia have an important role to play as part of the DMA enforcement machinery.

Today, the "Commission reiterated that the bloc's flagship digital laws, specifically the DSA and the DMA, will not even be mentioned in an upcoming joint statement on the EU-US trade deal, expected to be published imminently," Euractiv here.

The Modern Economic Approach to Antitrust Law: Analysis and Examples

 S. Salop, here.

[I don't know what modern means, here. Very much the same "more economic approach" that has been increasingly repudiated for a number of compelling reasons - not least because of it being used to shamelessly - "it's science, we teach it our Students!" - justify whatever suits who pays the IO economists providing the analysis].