‘Scaling Laws’ and Interoperability as the Backbone of the Digital Economy

 N. Economides et al., here.

As Competition Enforcers Gather, They Should Open the App Store Gates

 Coalition for App Fairness, here. 

OWA's Submission to the CMA on Apple’s iOS Interoperability Commitments [you must be kidding - basically]

 Here. 

 

In a parallel world... 

First DMA merchandising ever: may trigger border scrutiny...

 

Or there is the more discreet black version, the one to wear under a jacket when you are attending a conference full of regulators, politicians, lobbyists, and consultants, whether for Big Tech or otherwise.

Episode 3

IKK 2026: recordings available!

 Here. 

Not to be missed: Prof. Fox & Guests https://lnkd.in/d4V4JDmT - her writings inspired me as a young Student to get into competition policy.

Disagree that "digital is shiny" and enforcers should deal with that "what actually matters to people." It's shiny only if you avoid dealing with the gritty basics, which few understand, which depend on specialised knowledge, and which remain largely unexplained to that public the regulators should serve. The "communication problem" is much larger and serious than the ten seconds needed to explain to a BBC radio audience at the breakfast table what a specific decision is about.

Continuing: AI Panel https://lnkd.in/euyBaNFH

Fully agree with FSM on the fact that Google Search was a defeat because of regulators - in the audience: don't look at me, I wasn't there yet etc.

Best intervention so far: Signal!

Google's representative: "I also have children" - time flies. Then we learn that GetTourGuide has "ebenfalls" two kids. And those families in the US also have plenty of children and some good rulings supporting them. BTW, is FSM about to say the number of children she has? Women: we don't do it enough, apparently. FSM putting a rich debate into two narrowly framed economic "theories of harm" sounds a bit reductionist at this point. Unsurprisingly, Google is a big fan of Judge Mehta.

Give us the time, Google implores regulators! *Hear* hundreds of eyes in the room roll over. 

How Matrix is becoming the communication standard for Public Sector

 

YouTube, here. 

Prep for Episode 3 :). 

Competition, Innovation, and the Future of the Web – Why Independent Browser Engines Matter

 Mozilla, here. 

Related: Episode 2 of the DMA Vox Populi Podcast here.  

SEMIC 2025: Keynote speech by Francesca Bria

 Here. 

The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk

 ADExchanger, here. 

Grundrechte im Digitalen

 Wikimedia, hier. 

Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings

 TechCrunch, here. 

Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics

D. MacKenzie, K. Caliskan, here.  

Digital Markets Act: MEPs demand timely action and resilience against external pressures

 EP IMCO, here. 

Useful albeit partial list of outstanding issues here.

Apropos "relevant studies commissioned by the Commission" (sigh) - what happened to the "Study into how emerging technologies may impact digital market regulation," here? Yep, 300.000 EUR and likely never ending. 

 

Weg von Google und Paypal – Wie die EU digital unabhängiger werden will

 SWR, hier.

BREAKING FREE Pathways to a fair technological future

The Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Q&A with...me: The Open Web, Apple, and the DMA

 OWA, here. 

[Amazing guys, if I may] 

Broadcasters urge EU to tighten rules for Big Tech in smart TV standoff

 Reuters, here. 

Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours (Episode XXX)

 The Atlantic, here. 

Market Investigation and Call for Inputs into Quantum Computing.

 AGCM, here.

HELENA WORLD CHRONICLE, LLC v. GOOGLE LLC

 Here.

Big Tech: The most dangerous companies in the world

 ZDF, hier.

Adobe/Semrush: No Bündelung, no Problem!

 Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Adobe's enshittification, here? Not our problem! We are the purest of antitrust authorities...

US antitrust law getting local

 Complaint, here. 

Apple pushing back on ‘vibe coding’ iPhone apps, developers say [U]

 9to5Mac, here. 

Lina Khan was right [an will always be :)]

 The Verge, here. 

Google reveals its solution for true Android sideloading: a mandatory waiting period

 The Verge, here. 

As explained by Android themselves here 

Many weird things there, but the worst one, possibly, is the 24 h fake deliberation period used only to introduce friction.

WhatsApp Interoperability and BirdyChat: How It Works

BirdyChat Blog, here. 

Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists

 BBC, here. 

Dynamic competition, to be taken seriously.

 

 

 

This I ask because I take dynamic competition very seriously, here.

EU Citizens Q&A on the DMA

EC, quite useful, here. 

Ikea tried to build a smart home for everyone — here’s why it’s not working yet

 The Verge, here. 

DMCCA - Google’s general search services: proposed conduct requirements

 Responses here. 

AI’s Use of Knowledge in Society

 E. Brynjolfsson et al., here. 

#2 - De-Occupy the Web!

DMA Vox Populi Podcast,  YouTubehere; PeerTube here. 

USERS STILL STUCK IN THE MUD

 BEUC, here. 

AI Transforms Search in a Way That Could Make Google’s Default Advantage Stronger

 C. Santesteban, here.

Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure

 Reuters, here. 

Teresa Ribera at the 23rd International Conference on Competition

 Video, here. 

Commission and EDPB publish contributions to the consultation on the draft joint guidelines on the interplay between DMA and GDPR

 EC, here. 

Google Backs Down: Will Grant Hotseat in EU Browser Choice Screen

 OWA, here. 

The Hot Seat, explained to mortals here.  

Constitution of Innovation | A Launch Event for a New Manifesto

 DCI, Video here. 

Dépendances structurelles et vulnérabilités systémiques dans le secteur du numérique

Assemblé Nationale, avec Robin ici. 

Hass und Radikalisierung auf Plattformen stoppen: Social Media müssen sichere Orte für junge Menschen werden

 A. Geese et al., here. 

Amazon 1 Perplexity 0

 Here.

SCiDA Database

 Here. 

Comments on the First Review of the Digital Markets Act

 F. Scott Morton et many al. , here. 

Your Choice by Default thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act

 BEUC, here. 

German publishers reject Apple's revised app tracking rules, urge antitrust fine

 Reuters, here. 

Agentic AI and consumers

 CMA, ici.

Apple DMA Compliance Report 2026

 Here. 

Google 2026 DMA Compliance Report

 Here.

Stark und zukunftsfähig – Wikipedia reagiert auf die Herausforderungen des Internets

 Wikipedia DE, hier.

Behind the Velvet Rope: The AI Divide on Display at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

 Mozilla, here.

Maintaining Open Source in the Age of Generative AI: Recommendations for Maintainers and Contributors

:probabl.blog, here. 

Repenser la souveraineté numérique à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle

 Y. Lechelle, ici.

And here.

AI, copyright and the creative industries

 House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, here.

Germany’s privacy chief gets sidelined as intel services bulk up

 Politico.eu, here.

UK dentists, beware!

 Here.

It is plainly a good thing if competition law manages to save British families a couple of pounds. But the CMA's priority setting has a faintly playground quality to it: much easier for the regulator  to pick on the weak than to take on the strong.

Kartellrecht in Zeiten maximalen Wandels

 A. Mundt, hier.

If alternative app stores are expected to meet high trust standards, how will those requirements interact with the existence of independent distribution channels?

 Aptoide, here.

AI and collusion: frontiers, opportunities and challenges

 CMA Blog, here.

Market Power in Transition Conference: Data Compute and Control

 Columbia Business School, videos here Lina Khan and more.

Commissioner of Competition v. Google Canada

 Here.

Google Is Closing Android. 37 Orgs Are Fighting Back.

 TechLore, here. 

Epic and Google have signed a special deal for a new class of ‘metaverse’ apps

 The Verge, here.

[BTW, while "Free the app stores" was the topic of Episode 1 of the DMA Vox Populi Podcast, Episode 2 is all about browsers and PWAs, preview here] 

A Missed Opportunity to Address Google’s Market Power in Search in the UK

 A. Cooper et al., here.

Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead

 The Verge, here.

An "Epic Fail" or also a good deal for developers and consumers?

 

US AI giants seem fine with their tech being used to spy on Europeans

Euractiv,  here.

Response to the CMA's Call for Evidence on Proposed Commitments from Apple and Google Concerning App Distribution, App Ranking, Use of Data, and Interoperability

 R. Podszun et mult. al., here.

Differently put, they're a joke.

Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition

 JS Tan et al., here.

Second international conference on the DSA and Platform Regulation (time flies)

Recordings  here.

A Fight Worth Fighting: Free the App Stores!

 

DMA Vox Populi Podcast, here and here.

Amuse bouche here. 

A place where we listen to essential, albeit underrepresented voices.