Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking

Forbes, Here.

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

TheGuardian, Here.

Some hope for software patents in the US after the CAFC's Enfish decision, but this is no game-changer

Iam-Media, Here.

How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

TechCrunch, Here.

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

TheGuardian, here.

Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse

TheTelegraph, here.

Okcupid And Google Deepmind: Happily Ever After? Purposes And Ethics In Datasharing

J. Persson, here.

Cybersecurity Futures 2020

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, here.

(Already compulsory reading for students attending my classes next semester - you're warned).

Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

Reuters, here.

Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?

TheAtlantic, Here.

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data (again)

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here.

Slightly revised and updated version (and yes, this week's FR and D Data Report is also considered).

EU’s Vestager Considers Third Antitrust Case Against Google

A. White, here. 

Matchmakers: The Future of Online Dating Platforms?

Arstechnica, here. 

What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Draft Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities

D. Seng, here.

Runkeeper tracks users when the app is not in use

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Ready for the week-end?

Spanish sherry maker fined by for cartel conduct aimed at raising export prices, here (Spanish)

Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust and Competition Policy

S. Martin, here. 

Antitrust in the Age of Amazon

NYTimes, here.

In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial

S. Jeong, here. 

The Blockchain is the new Google

TechCrunch, here. 

European online travel marketplace Evaneos picks up $21M funding

TechCrunch, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gegen Facebook: Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße?

D. Wiedmann, T. Jäger, hier.

Uber’s Antitrust Problem

Prospect.org, here.

In a $9 Billion Trial, Google's Secret Weapon Is a Filing Cabinet

MotherBoard, here. 

With help from Alexa, Kayak debuts voice-enabled travel search on Amazon Echo

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Fair use’ test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

MLex, here. 

GDPR and privacy are smokin’ hot for innovation right now

S. Carroll, here. 

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

WashingtonPost, here.
See also Led Astray, here. 

An EU exception for Text and Data Mining in the pipeline

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

Targeted online ads: Do customers benefit from giving out personal information to advertisers?

Stanford Business, here. 

Patent Trolls: Moral Panics, Motions in Limine, and Patent Reform

E. Lee, here. 

Android Share Growth is Highest in EU5 (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) in Over Two Years

Kantarworldpanel, here. 

3D, yes. But do it yourself not so much.

InsideStory, here. 

Wal-Mart Takes Another Swipe at Fees for Payment Cards

Bloomberg, here. 

Innovative uses of consumer data by financial institutions

EBA, Discussion Paper, here. 

Où est passé le bien commun ?

J. Tirole, ici. 

Keeping Pace in the Digital Age

T. McSweeney, Video here. Written comments here.

The next AI is no AI

TechCrunch, here. 

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age

TechCrunch, here. 

China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say

BBC, here. 

New report shows some publishers pay to join Snapchat's Discover section

Recode, here. 

The Role of Two-Sided Markets in United States v. American Express

E. Hochstadt and M. Thomas-Kennedy, here. 

BlaBlaCar dice que su conductor que más ganó obtuvo 3 euros en un año

ElPais, aquì. 

Competition Law, Market Power, and (Big) Data (retitled)

Autorité de la concurrence,
Bundeskartellamt, here.

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

TheVerge, here.
Demo here.

Personal digital assistants are on the rise (and they want to talk)

USAToday.com, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf lässt einstweilig abblitzen

Hotellerie.de, hier. 

The digital age of data art

TechCrunch, here. 

How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey, here. 

Millionenbuße wegen vertikaler Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Bier

FAZ.net, hier.
Fallbericht hier.

Disruptive innovations in legal services

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

New app gives Uber a little disruption of its own

BostonGlobe, here. 

Vehicle Dealers Allege Car Carrier Price Fixing

Maritime-executive, here.
Complaints here and here. 

Chasing the Uber model is killing a lot of on-demand companies

VentureBeat, here. 

The Platform Society

J. Van Dijk, Podcast here.

The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners

D. Beyer, here.

It begins: BotRevenue.com to serve ads in bots

VentureBeat, here.

Retrial of Oracle copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday

SFGate, here.

Auslieferung wegen Kartellvergehens: EuGH prüft Staatshaftung der Bundesrepublik im Fall Pisciotti

Juve.de, hier.

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

MappingBabel, here.

One of the world's largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars

HathiTrust, Here.

Challenging Anticompetitive Acquisitions and Enforcement of Patents

AAI, here. 

How Android gets to 100% market share

TechCrunch, here.

Facebook is building AI that builds AI

Wired, here. 

Italian Film Industry Condemns Paramount’s EU Antitrust Deal

HollywoodReporter, here. 

CMA publishes one stop guide to obtaining redress for competition law breaches

Out-law.com, here. 

New regulations for the grocery sector now in force in Ireland

CCPC, here. 

eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker

TechCrunch, here. 

An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe

OFE, here. 

Regulating Patent Hold-Up

LCII Policy Brief, here. 

3D printing companies request Supreme Court clarification over cheerleader uniform copyright case

3ders.org, here.
Petition here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Open Data, Privacy, and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework

F. Borgesius, J. Gray & M. van Eechoud, here. 

Sensay, a chatbot for getting help with any task, passes 1 million users

VentureBeat, here. 

Merger Remedies Guide

ICN Merger Working Group, here. 

Government Advocacy and Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project Report, here.

Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

NewScientist, here.

Liability for robots/AI generated harm

N. Petit, presentations here and here.

Disruptive innovation: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Forum, contributions here.

Anticipating Disruptive Strategies

Deloitte, here.

Australia should follow Europe against US digital giants

TheAustralian, here.

Los grandes fabricantes alertan: la marca blanca es 'invisible' para Competencia

ElEspanol, aquí

Google y el abuso de posición de dominio: una cronología

CNMC, here.

Online platforms: Commission wants to make the internet more like traditional media

Communia, here.

Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational

BuzzFeed, here.

Ever-Litigious Apple Loses Copyright Battle With China Over iPhone

Sputniknews, here.

Accountable Algorithms

J. Kroll, J. Huey, S. Barocas, E. Felten, J. Reidenberg, D. Robinson, and H. Yu, here.

Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights

The White House, here.

"Meet"...me

OFE, here.

Blockchain and big data privacy in healthcare

IAPP, here. 

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

TheGuardian, here. 

The business face of Big Data: do we have to care

CEPIC, here.

Antitrust regulators get tough on Google

KoreanTimes, Here.

As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Transient Power And A Few Dollars

BuzzFeed,  here.

Always On: Privacy Implications of Microphone-Enabled Devices

Future of Privacy Forum, here.

Big Data Does Not Shield Tech Companies From Competition

A. Lambrecht, C. Tucker, here.

What's at Stake in Algorithmic Accountability?

N. Couldry, here.

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

J. Nowag, here.

Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?

DigiDay, here.

Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU

M. Sag, here.