Call for tenders CNECT/2023/OP/0047 - EP Pilot Project: Study of interoperability tools in the Digital Single Market.

 Here

Vertical Interoperability in Mobile Ecosystems: Will the DMA Deliver (What Competition Law Could Not)?

 G. Colangelo, A. Ribera Martínez, herehere. 

‘Super-apps’ and the Digital Markets Act

 

Abstract

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims to ensure contestability and fairness in digital markets, particularly focusing on regulating Big Tech companies. The paper explores the DMA's capacity to address both current and future challenges in digital market contestability and fairness, spotlighting the trend towards platform integration and the potential rise of "super-apps" akin to WeChat and KakaoTalk. Specifically, it investigates WhatsApp, owned by Meta, as a gatekeeper that might expand its service offerings, integrating additional functionalities like AI and metaverse technologies. The paper discusses whether the DMA's obligations, such as mandated interoperability and data portability, can mitigate the emergent risks to market fairness and contestability from such integrations. Despite recognizing that the DMA has the potential to address many issues arising from platform integration, it suggests the necessity for adaptability and a complementary relationship with traditional antitrust law to ensure sustained contestability and fairness in evolving digital markets

[Very pleased to share with you, dear @Wavesblog Reader, my first draft (short paper because I had a word limit, submitted to a journal) and thankful for any comment you might have: simonetta.vezzoso@unitn.it]

Google Chat adding voice messages and interoperability with Slack, Teams

 9To5Google, here. 

An important step towards secure and interoperable messaging

 Google (no kidding), here. 

Apple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK

 MacRumors, here. 

Post-EC Technical Workshop on Messaging Interoperability: What Stakeholders are Saying

 Matrix, here. 

Carl Schwan, here. 

Firefox, here. 

J. Blessing, R. Anderson, here. 

J. Len et al., here. 

Second EU Technical Workshop, on interoperability of messaging services: The Recording

 Here (the Italian lady continuously touching her hair and being allergic to reading her speech like almost everybody else did it's yours truly!)

Stellungnahme der Bundesregierung: Sektorgutachten Nr. 12 der Monopolkommission „Telekommunikation 2021: Wettbewerb im Umbruch“

 Hier. 

Interoperability in digital markets

 I. Brown, Video here (from 2:21:19).

PRIVATE MESSAGING INTEROPERABILITY IN THE EU DIGITAL MARKETS ACT

 I. Brown, here.