Friday, June 03, 2016

European Commission Announces eCommerce Package

Cooley, here

There is no Open Science without the use of open standards and Free Software

Blog.3rik.cc, here

You should go check Facebook's new privacy settings ASAP

Wired, here

Économie de partage : des assureurs se disent prêts

Journal-assurance.ca, ici.

Madonna Gets Victory Over 'Vogue' Sample at Appeals Court

Billboard, here.
Decision here

Economía colaborativa: 1.150 respuestas a nuestras recomendaciones

CNMC, aquì

Companies once thought they’d make big money off big data–now it’s their biggest liability

QZ.com, here

Market-Based Finance: Its Contributions and Emerging Issues

FCA, here

Setting the record straight on privacy dimensions in big data

K. El Emam, here

Algorithms: The Future That Already Happened

Lareviewofbooks.org, here

Monday, May 23, 2016

Theranos teaches Silicon Valley a hard lesson about accountability

WashingtonPost, here

Control Mechanisms for CRM Systems and Competition Law

R. Hilty, T. Li, here.

CMA response to BIS consultation on moving Land Registry operations to the private sector

CMA, here

Saisine d’office pour avis portant sur l’exploitation des données dans le secteur de la publicité en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.
A voir aussi:
fiche 1 : le secteur de la publicité en ligne en chiffres
fiche 2 : les acteurs de la publicité programmatique
fiche 3 : big data et publicité sur internet

Machine Bias

Propublica.org, here.

International enforcement cooperation in mergers: main principles and recent experiences

EC, Competition policy brief, here.


Q&A: The impact and evolution of the sharing economy

PewResearchCenter, here

Copyright reform comes a little closer in Ireland

E. O'Dell, here

Platform Privacy: The Missing Piece of Data Protection Legislation

M. Westerlund and J. Enkvist, here

The rise of APIs

TechCrunch, here

Germany’s supreme court ruling on online games and bots could affect entire EU

VentureBeat, here

Regulating Revolution: An Introduction to 3D Printing and the Law

A. Daly, here

Internet Competition & Regulation of Online Platforms

CPI and Computer and Communications Industry Association, here

Friday, May 20, 2016

How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist

T. Harris, Here.

Google answered some of our questions about its fancy new AI chip

Recode, Here.

Istruttoria nei confronti di Net Service per ipotesi di abuso della posizione dominante

Provvedimento qui.

La CNMC impugna el Decreto sobre viviendas vacacionales en Canarias

CNMC, here.

Oracle-Google Dispute Goes to Heart of Open-Source Software

NYTimes, here

Kartellrechtliche Beschränkung von Online-Verkäufen über Amazon und eBay

Cmshs-bloggt.de, hier.
Vorlagebeschluss hier.

Goodreads is finally cashing in on its devoted community

Wired, here

UK High Court on Plain Packaging

"The" Expert
Here.
Worthwhile read for your week-end.

Read also here.



"I earn a living fronting an organization that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel Sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity."
Thank you for smoking

Third Circuit Provides Guidance on Loyalty Discounts

Schiff Hardin, Here.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Google's Data Dominance

M. Kearns, here.

Big Data Enters the Agenda of EU Antitrust Authorities

Skadden, here.

Technology‑led Innovation and Emerging Services in the Canadian Financial Services Sector

Competition Bureau, here.

Google’s chatbot strategy is missing something important

VentureBeat, here

Data Mobility at the Intersection of Data, Trade Secret Protection and the Mobility of Employees in the Digital Economy

G. Surblyte, here.

Google Appeals French Right-To-Be-Forgotten Ruling

NYTimes, here.

The Dutch parliament bans zero rating

EDRi, here.

Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy

Pew, Study here

TTIP on Competition

Wikileaks, here

The CMA is right to place its faith in tech, not gimmicks

Cityam.com, here

Majority of accommodation providers in the EU offer online booking

Eurostat, here

Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

S. Englehardt, A. Narayanan, here

It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means

SavageMinds, here

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The Smoking Gun in Android Antitrust Case

TheInformation, here

Staples/Office Depot: Memorandum Opinion

E. Sullivan, here

TripAdvisor chief on Instant Book, hotel direct campaigns and tours and activities

Travolution.com, here

Guide to big data and the Australian Privacy Principles

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Consultation Draft, here

Oracle CEO claims it discounted Java by 97.5% to beat out Android on Amazon’s Paperwhite

TechCrunch, here

Less Logic, More Health: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Incentives

Knowledge@Wharton, here

Training Computer Programs

Wired, here

Colleges Shouldn’t Have to Deal With Copyright Monitoring

P. Samuelson, here

An Introduction to Intellectual Property

M. Lemley P. Menell, R. Merges, here.

Google To Enter The Chat Bot Market With New Developer Tools, Integrations

AndroidPolice, here

EU-wide cybersecurity rules adopted by the Council

Council of the EU, here

Sharing Research Data

S. Summers, Presentation here

Runkeeper: A Message to Our Users

Here. And reply by the Forbrukerådet here.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Polish competition authority declares that Uber does not pose a threat to competition and protection of consumer interests.

A. Stawicki, here.
Statement of UOKiK's position here

Tripadvisor chief Stephen Kaufer sees no threat from direct hotel booking

IrishTimes, here

Waze va concurrencer BlaBlaCar avec un service de covoiturage

Numerama, ici

Pratiques Unilatérales

F. Marty, A. Wachsmann, Chroniques ici

CMA warns UK estate agents against colluding in online portal selection

EU-competitionlaw.com, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Oracle v. Google - Day 5

S. Jeong, Storify here

Die Hotel-Branche soll die Zimmerpreise von Buchungsplattformen wieder unterbieten dürfen, kündigt Wirtschaftsminister

Tiroler Tageszeitung, hier

Retail banking market investigation: Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here.

Monday, May 16, 2016

Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

TechCrunch, here.

A brief history of disobedience

Seriously..., Podcast here.

How much of an optimistic disobedient person are you?


Vermieter zeigen Berliner Ferienwohnungs-Verbot bei EU an

Morgenpost, hier.

Made in Roma - Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica

Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mostra, info qui.
V. anche S. Pastor, Dal “Domo Roma” al “Made in Roma”, qui.

Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects

VentureBeat, here.

Tacit Agreement Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

W. Page, here.

Online Platforms, Competition Rules and Consumer Protection in Travel Industry

M. Colangelo, V. Zeno-Zencovich, here.

European Union Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost

B. Galle, here.

Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case

J. Grimmelmann, here.

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.

Friday, May 13, 2016

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

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

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

Monday, May 09, 2016

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

Friday, May 06, 2016

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.

Thursday, May 05, 2016

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.

Friday, April 29, 2016

The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications

M. Montejo, here

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market

O. Batura, N. van Gorp, P. Larouche (and L.Filistrucchi), here.
TNO/Ecorys/IViR Report here

Musicians: canaries in the coalmine

J. Lanier, here.
WIPO Magazine, Interview here

Who's downloading pirated papers?

ScienceMag.org, here.

What is the European Commission’s problem with Google and Android?

M. Martyniszyn, here

Will blockchains remove the need for an intermediary?

iDate, here

Airbnb dumps Berlin holiday flats before city crackdown

IrishTimes, here

Bathroom supplier fined £826,000 for restricting online prices

CMA, here.

"The CMA will issue its formal infringement decision shortly."

Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly

NYTimes, here

Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data

WRR, here

Google Tests Feature That Lets Media Companies, Marketers Publish Directly to Search Results

WSJ, here

Competition Tribunal rules against TREB in dispute over home sales data

CBC.ca, here.
CB's press release, here

PayPal Says Federal Trade Commission Investigating Venmo

Bloomberg, here

Whoa, Amazon isn't just making money. It's making more money than ever.

Wired, here

TripAdvisor acquires HouseTrip as home-rental market consolidates

VentureBeat, here

Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users

TechCrunch, here

Le Sénat adopte une disposition contre les abus de Google

Numerama.com, ici

Buchungsportal darf nicht mit eigenen Hotel-Sternen werben

FAZ, hier

Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, AU Government agency says

ABC.net.au, here.

Draft Report here

Colgate fined over price fixing

CPI, here.
ACCC's press release, here

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

How GDPR changes the rules for research

The Privacy Advisor, here

Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development

UNCTAD, here

Facebook considering a number of ways to let users earn money from posts

DigitalTrends, here

ICOMP on Statement of Objections against Google Android

7 Top Takeaways from EU’s Google-Android-Tying Charges

S. Cleland, here

Appropriability and the European Commission's Android Investigation

D. Auer, here

Google, Online Search and Consumer Confusion in Australia

A. Scardamaglia, A. Daly, here

EC Statement of Objections on Google's Tactics in Mobile

B. Edelman, here

Paranoid About Android

Bloomberg, here

Android’s Model of Open Innovation

Google, here

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on Android operating system and applications

EC, Press Release here.
Commissioner Vestager's Statement here.
Factsheet, here.
Press conference, recordings here (Statement) and here (Q&A)

Negative externality: my paper's massively outdated now.

Hankook Tire fined in China for resale price maintenance

Yonhapnews, here

Competencia y economía colaborativa

ElPeriodico, aquì.

Europe is targeting Google under antitrust laws but missing the bigger picture

J. Powles, here

Advancing the Internet of Things in Europe

EC, here

Fair Use and its politics, at home and abroad

J. Hughes, Presentation here

Statement Regarding Investigation into Alleged Anti-Competitive Conduct by Google

Competition Bureau (Canada), here

Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market

UK House of Lords, here.

Nice, informative read. The irony is, though, that given the actual pace of technological and other developments, some parts of it already feel a bit old.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Judge Andrews permits Microsoft’s SEP-based antitrust claims against InterDigital to proceed (Microsoft v. InterDigital)

Kelley Drye & Warren, here.
Order here.

Trading start-ups are preparing major bank antitrust suits

Reuters, here

Automakers welcome new EU data protection rules

ACEA, here

Data brokers : le pétrole et l’iceberg

CNIL, ici

How to reboot the FTC

Politico.com, here

ABA Antitrust Section’s Spring Meeting—What You Need to Know

Perkins Cole, here

Watermarking and Blockchain Challenges

Copyrightandtechnology, here

Lyft Is Gaining on Uber as It Spends Big for Growth

Bloomberg, here

Das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger Hintergründe und wesentliche Fragen

T. Kreutzer, hier

Say Nay to the Neighbouring Right!

B. Hugenholtz, here

Benefits of Competition and Indicators of Market Power

CEA, here

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten: Sollte Datenschutz eine Rolle spielen?

N. Jentzsch, hier

Copyright Fight Club

Politico.eu, here

Ensure Hyperlinking Will Not Infringe Copyright Law: Advocate General Wathelet’s Opinion On Gs Media

Project-disco.org, here

Some Online Bargains May Only Look Like One

NYTimes, here

How Australian business views the sharing economy

NAB, here

Deterrence in EU merger policy

J. Clougherty , T. Duso, J. Seldeslachts, here

Perchas iguales, wifi o cafetera… así son las restricciones a la vivienda turística

CNMC, aquì

Argentine capital's gov't says Uber illegal, will be penalized

Latino.FoxNews, here

Personal Data Services Promise User Privacy

Networkcomputing, here

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Opinion 01/2016 on the EU – U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision

WP29, here

Antworten auf die Fragen für das Fachgespräch „Kartellrecht und Plattformen“

Bundeskartellamt, hier.
J. Haucap, hier.

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv),  Hier.
A.Baums, hier.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

Brisant, Sendung hier

Former FTC Commissioner: UFC investigations, antitrust lawsuit ‘ultimately about consumers’

Bloodyelbow.com, here

Sorry, but Uber Isn’t Conspiring to Fix Ridesharing Prices

J. Meyer, R. Meyer, here

The era of AI-human hybrid intelligence

TechCrunch, here

Bloops and Blips Ahead for Bots

Recode.net, here

Not So Fast! Qualcomm Cannot Use “Curious Quirk” of U.S. Discovery Law In Korean Antitrust Proceeding

Proskauer, here.

FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone

WashingtonPost, here

A global guide to antitrust/competition law—what, why, for whom?

D. Gerber, here

The Dynamic Structure or Regulatory Innovation Networks

M. Jennejohn, here

Sponge

A. Ezrachi, here

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Energy market investigation: Consultation response

Centre for Competition Policy, here

Oxford professor calls for European ethical codes on patient data

TheGuardian, here

Uber pone techo al costo de su servicio en la Ciudad de México

Expansion, aquì.

Google.org ’s giving $20 million to engineer a better world for the disabled

Wired, here

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses von Online-Dating-Plattformen

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht hier

Finland, the land of vertical search engines

InfoWorld, here

In Bots We Trust?

Slate.com, here

What Is Cognitive Economics? Understanding the World Through New Types of Data

Inverse, here

Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems

Phys.org, here

BMW Launches "Premium Airbnb For Cars"

TheDrive, here

Is Uber even part of the sharing economy?

Fastcoexist, here

Here's How Nike Became a Platform Business

M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, S. Choudary, here

Why Platform Disruption Is So Much Bigger than Product Disruption

J. Vasquez Sampere, here

Monday, April 11, 2016

Keeping pace with a changing environment: What this means for enforcers

A. Chrisholm, here

Uber is the victim of Judge Rakoff’s curiosity in antitrust case

Reuters, here.
Opinion and Order here.
Original Complaint here.

Deep Learning for Chatbots, Part 1 – Introduction

WildML, here

Quo Vadis FTC? (Endo Complaint)

D. Goldstein, R. Reznick, here

A bunch of big US websites say they're likely to support legal action against ad blockers

Businessinsider, here.

Leading government's 'data revolution'

UKauthority, here

Big data and competition: Facebook faces antitrust probe over privacy terms

Taylor Wessing, here

How to Spot a Monopolistic Search Engine

M. Luca, here

Vermarktungsmodell für die Vergabe der Bundesligarechte ab der Saison 2017/18 gebilligt

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Points de rencontre entre régulation concurrentielle & protection des données

B. Lasserre, Vidéo ici.

Pourquoi l’Autorité française ne se saisit-elle pas aussi de Facebook ?

B. Lasserre, Vidéo ici.

Bots, explained

Recode.net, here

Here’s why the music labels are furious at YouTube. Again.

Recode.net, here

Friday, April 01, 2016

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence

T. Simonite, here

Why ad blocking, a form of digital self-defense, is not a net neutrality violation

Strand Consult, here

The Conspiracy of Algorithmic Price-Fixing

A. Rosenblat, here

New Decision in Georgia State University E-Reserves Case Released; 41 of 48 Claims of Infringement Found to Be Fair Uses

ARL Policy Notes, here

Tech Giants and Civic Power

M. Moore, here.

Updated Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines

Competition Bureau Canada, here

How Antitrust Law Could Reform College Football: Section 1 of the Sherman Act and the Hope for Tangible Change

M. Edelman, here

Uber CEO must face price-fixing lawsuit by passengers: U.S. judge

Reuters.com, here

Smart Homes and the Internet of Things

Atlantic Council, here

Shifting Perspectives: Redesigning Regulation For The Sharing Economy

MaRS Solution Lab, here

FTC Sues Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Others for Illegally Blocking Lower-Cost Generic Versions of the Branded Drugs Opana ER and Lidoderm

Press Release, here

Thursday, March 31, 2016

The technology industry’s dirty secret: most products are frighteningly insecure

M. Kleppmann, here

Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results

B. Edelman, Z. Lai, here

Issues Paper On Foresight for Digital Development

UNCTAD, here

KLM now uses Facebook Messenger for boarding passes, flight info, and customer service

VentureBeat, here

Hollywood Deals in Spotlight as EU Builds Antitrust Film Case

Bloomberg, here

A Typology of Privacy

B.-J. Koops, B. Clayton Newell, T. Timan, I. Škorvánek, T. Chokrevski, M. Galič, here.

Patent licencing: CCI can look into cases if allegations of abuse of dominance are involved, says Delhi HC

Indianexpress.com, here.
Judgment here

EU Privacy Reg Data Portability May Affect Controllers

S. Gardner, here

LG Berlin: Amazon haftet für urheberrechtswidrige Bilder seiner Marketplace-Verkäufer

Dr-bahr.com, hier

Off-Topic: Scientists for EU Campaign – Written evidence

Data.parliament.uk, here

Why Microsoft just made a big bet on bots

The Verge, here.

(Interestingly, MS fought hard against the browser replacing the desktop OS as the new platform, as every antitrust scholar knows; now MS - not alone, though - is "on the other side" and pushing hard for the bot store to replace the app store. Reactions from the incumbents at risk of being displaced or general and rather peaceful transition towards the new largely AI-fueled paradigm?).

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype — and everywhere else

TechCrunch, here

This student put 50 million research articles online. And they’re free.

WashingtonPost, here

Microsoft CEO: ‘Bots are the new apps'

Mashable, here.

Clippy’s Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots

Bloomberg, here

Consumer Protection in E-commerce - OECD Recommendation

Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy

M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, S. Choudary, here.

Monopolizing Water in a Tsunami: Finding Sensible Antitrust Rules for Big Data

D. Balto, M. Cameron Lane, here

How would Brexit affect EU patent protection?

TheGuardian, here

Vertical restraints: new evidence from a business survey

Accent and Oxera for the CMA, here.
See also the Summary note of the CMA roundtable on vertical restraints 16 January 2015, here.

"What vertical restraints are businesses using and what are their main motivations for doing so?"
Seriously, did they expect businesses to answer "for anti-competitive reasons"?

Blockchain: Spider or Starfish Effect?

R. French, here

Using Adblock Plus to block ads is legal, rules German court—for the fifth time

ArsTechnica, here

What is a Robot?

The Atlantic, here

Commitment Decisions in Antitrust Cases

OECD Secretariat, here

Fidelity Rebates

OECD Secretariat, here

In the wake of Apple v FBI, we need to address some uncomfortable truths

J. Powles, E. Chaparro, here

The Platform Revolution

Interview with G. Parker, Here.

Snapchat update targets rivals’ territory

FT, here

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Google Now Card Offers Movie Piracy Advice

Torrentfreak, Here.

Platform regulation — ex-ante versus ex-post intervention: evolving our antitrust tools and practices to meet the challenges


A. Chisholm & N. Jung, Here.

Bußgelder im Sanitär-Kartell

Bundeskartellamt, hier

CrowdSignals Aims to Create a Marketplace for Smartphone Sensor Data

NYTimes, here

Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong

TechCrunch, here

Kartellamt nimmt DFB ins Visier

FAZ, hier

My Take on FBI’s “Alternative” Method

J. Zdziarski, here

Energy market investigation - Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here (758 pages).

PCW: 357-391.

Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era

S. Dengler, J. Prüfer, here.

Regulierung von Digitalen Vermittlungsplattformen für Privatfahrer

vzbv, hier

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)

SearchEngineLand, here.

On newspapers and ebooks, the Justice Department's antitrust theory is obsolete

LATimes, here.

Monday, March 21, 2016

The Global Privacy Enforcement Network

Annual Report (2015), here

Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?

F. Pasquale, here

Taxi And Private Hire Car Licensing – Consultation on The Impact of Modern Technology

The Scottish Government, here

Lufthansa says other airlines will follow GDS surcharge move

Tnooz, here

How the FCC's Privacy Proposal Could Affect More Than ISPs

AdAge, here. 

Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2016

Recordings and Presentations here

Apple ‘privacy czars’ grapple with internal conflicts over user data

VentureBeat, here

La menace d’une saisie du code source des iPhone serait crédible

Numerama, ici

Google looks to big data to cut traffic and create new product

SiliconBeat, here

Why real-time search algorithm updates may be bad news

SearchEngineLand, here

Spotify inks “no copyright claim” royalty deal with music publishers

ArsTechnica, here

No, the On-Demand Economy Isn’t About to Implode

WIRED, here

The death of Instagram for brands

TechCrunch, here

Newsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really speaking for the readers?

NiemanLab, here