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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

What would it take to disrupt Facebook?

J. Gans, here. 

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. 

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?).

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

Here.

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. 

Facebook, Google, Amazon May Be Caught Up In Netflix Regulatory Flap

Investors.com, here. 

Whither Game Theory?

D. Fudenberg, D. Levine, here. 

Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition

TheEconomist, here.