Western Union Questioned by EU in Money-Transfer Antitrust Probe

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Google Faces More EU Woes, Attorneys General Ask FTC To Revive Case In US

MarketingLand, here. 

The Montcalm Mystery: Comparison widgets on hotels' websites and Booking.com

TNooz, here. 

Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service

TechCrunch, here.

Meet the Fixers Collective: the geeks who are fixing iPhones for free

TheVerge, here.

What's Next?

C. Dixon, here.

Looking back and moving on

NewYorker, here.

Stack is the new Platform

labs.sogeti.com, here.

Why Is IBM Buying Ad Agencies?

Fool.com, here.

Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset

J. Poles, here.

New research shows UK online alternative finance market grew to £3.2 billion in 2015

Nesta, here.

Antitrust Experts Debate Apple’s Supreme Court Bid

PublishersWeekly, here.

The opportunities and ethics of big data

Royal Statistical Society, here. 

Streetmap v Google: lessons for pending Article 102 TFEU cases (including Google itself)

ChillingCompetition, here. 

PTO Weighs In on Digital First Sale

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here.

U.S.-EU Data Privacy: From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield

US Congressional Research Service, here.

Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position

Timesofindia, here.

Getting Around Section 230

E. Goldman, audio here; slides here. . 

How will acceding to the Marrakesh Treaty benefit Canadians?

Government of Canada, here. 

World’s cheapest Android smartphone goes on sale for just $3.67

ArsTechnica, here.

Netflix says going global has improved its personal recommendations

VentureBeat, here. 

Données personnelles : le virulent réquisitoire de la CNIL contre Facebook

Le Monde, ici.

A message to our customers regarding backdoors

Apple, here.

Linux and White House together to improve open source security

CIO.com, here. 

Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics

O. Malik, here. 

What if we don’t need advertising at all?

D. Searls, here.

AU: Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law

Submissions here.
ACCC here. 

Platforms, is there a need to regulate?

Digital4EU 2016, Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:15 – 17:25, webstream here..

Juno hasn’t even launched, but it’s already creeping me out with its data collection

Medium.com, here. 

Stealth Startup Juno Will Take On Uber By Treating Drivers Better

Forbes, here. 

Why does everybody hate competition so much?

C. Sagers, here. 

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Wired, here. 

It’s time to break the teeth-whitening monopoly

Washington Post, here.

European Union Competition Law in the Digital Era

M. Kadar, here. 

CCI rejects complaints of unfair practices against Ola, Uber

Moneycontrol, here.
Orders here and here.

So dynamisch sind die Preise im Netz

WISO, hier. 

The hidden traps in the Apple ebook case

R. Epstein, here.

"Prices will be the same"

S. Jobs, Video here.

A.I. and virtual reality may propel future of retail

Computerworld, here.

Before It 'Unlocks the Box,' The FCC Must Solve This Pricing Puzzle

Forbes, here. 

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence

Recode, here.

Kik Battles Facebook With Bots In The New Messaging Wars

Forbes, here.

‘Patent trolls’ on the prowl for ‘smart’ product providers

FT, here.

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

Fusion.net, here.

Asics zieht gegen Bundeskartellamt vor Gericht

Market-intern, hier.
 Fallbericht,  hier.
OLG Frankfurt Entscheidung hier.

FCC chairman talks set-top boxes, consumers' right to choose

Washington Post, Video here.

UK's Streetmap loses 'anticompetitive' search abuse case against Google

The Guardian, here.
Decision here.

Microsoft retreats from EU antitrust fight against Google (?)

ArsTechnica, here. 

74 OEMs pre-install MS apps and services on Android devices

BusinessInsider, here.

(OEMs/MS agreements anyone?)

Personal data in exchange for free services: an unhappy partnership?

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

The European Collaborative Economy Industry to the Presidency of the EU Council

Letter, here.

(Inspiring list of signatories).

Error 53 lawsuit

Here.

'Pay for delay' fined in the UK

CMA, here.

Facebook and the New Colonialism

The Atlantic, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Mydex supplementary evidence

Mydex, here. 

The Big Data Dilemma

UK Parliament, here.

Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist?

TechCrunch, here.

Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?

A. Strowel, W. Vergote, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Uber supplementary evidence

Uber, here.

Apple in ACCC's sights over bricked iPhones

ITNews, here.

Thinking Inside the Box

Impactcentre.ca, here.

Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?

TechCrunch, here. 

“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M

ArsTechnica, here.

The Case That Won’t Be Forgotten

J. Powles, here. 

Optimising romance

TheEconomist, here. 

Online review sites commit to improve practices

CMA, here.

La impugnación de normas como instrumento para eliminar barreras a la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquí

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

The Atlantic, here.

Why Uber’s surge pricing is naive economics

S. King, here.

The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you

TheGuardian, here.
Clapper's testimony here.

Google's self-driving systems legally qualify as a driver under US federal law

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, here.

Professions in an Era of Algorithmic Power

F. Pasquale, here.

License Compatibility and Relicensing

R. Stallman, here.

Disclosing the lowest prices for generics to allow comparison-shopping

NYTimes, here.

The open banking standard

ODI, here.

All the Places Personal Data Goes

News.harvard, here.

The phone call that saved safe harbor

Politico, here.

Paypal bans VPN and DNS services

Wired, here.

Schweres Gelände

SZ, hier.

The Great Data Race

Norwegian Data Protection Authority,  here.

After the sharing economy

Transmediale Panel, Audio here (from 01:32).

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

J. Fruchterman, here. 

Wie Google User für sich arbeiten lässt - unbewusst und unbezahlt

E. Morozov, here. 

The UK competition regime

National Audit Office, here. 

The adblocker dispute is going to become one of the fundamental battles on privacy

Zdnet.com, here. 

Data protection has gone global

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Facebook cripples chat encryption app that promised users extra privacy

TheNextWeb, here.

Developments in the Prescription Drug Market: Oversight.

M. Merritt, here. 

Living fully human lives online is all about taking control

Medium.com, here. 

AI is Trasforming Google Search

Wired.com, here. 

Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store

TheVerge, here. 

Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing's Daraprim Price Increase

M. Carrier, N. Levidow, A. Kesselheim, here. 

Drug Firms Expected to Defend Huge Price Increases in House Testimony

NYTimes, here. 

Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion

TechCrunch, here. 

How Age UK pocketed £6m bung from E.ON and pushed expensive power deals to OAPs

TheSun, here. 

Fertility Industry Group Settles Lawsuit Over Egg Donor Price Caps

Blogs.wsj, here. 

Privacy in the EU and US: A Debate between Max Schrems and Peter Swire

Audio here. 

Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit

TechCrunch, here. 

UK challenger bank Mondo releases API to let customers play with their own data

Finextra, here.