Google keeps ex-Googlers close by investing in their startups

Recode, here.

Data-Driven Economy and Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Competition Law Issues

G. Surblyte, here.

European Commission Closes Pay-TV Antitrust Investigation of Paramount Following Acceptance of Commitments

Cooley, here.

Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis

Reuters, here.

Sharing Economy: Nutznießer oder Opfer institutioneller Inkonsistenzen?

T. Theurl, hier.

Distribution online - Vertriebsvorgaben im E-Commerce

Taylor Wessing, hier.

MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model

TechCrunch, here.

Forget Uber: Fly over traffic jams at the push of a button

The mythical Paperinik, gem of Italian creativity

AirBus, here.

Scholar behind 'net neutrality' joins White House as competition policy adviser

TheHill, here.
See also here.

Prison breakthrough

TheEconomist, here.

Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement

B. Bodó, here.

Proyecto para regular apps es "redundante" y anticompetitivo

ElObservador (Uruguay), aquí.

Digital Single Market Update: The European Commission’s Proposal to Revise the Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Morrison & Foerster, here.

The Olympics and IP

ManagingIP, here.

White House Kept Close Tabs on FTC Google Probe

Google Transparency Project, here.
(Mails have some interesting attachments)

A New Approach to Copyright Exceptions and Limitations

J. Band, here.

ACCC continues its review of banks’ application for authorisation to collectively bargain with Apple

ACCC, here.

The Getty Museum's Lessons Learned From Opening Up Content

TecHDirt, here.

Banks v. Bots

Forbes, here.

Fitch: CMA Remedies Could Mean Slow Profit Erosion at UK Banks

Reuters, here.

Market definition and the sharing economy

C. Ortiz, here.

El modelo de Denominación de Origen y restricciones a la competencia

CNMC, aquí

What Matchmakers Always Get Wrong

PYMNTS, here. 

Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

N. Dawar, here.

Blablacar mahnt Wettbewerber ab

Handelsblatt, hier.

2. Biopatentbericht

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. S. auch hier. 

What Airbnb And The Uber-Didi Deal Tell Us About Marketplaces And Monopolies

Forbes, here.

The allocation of responsibility and risk among actors involved in personal data processing

B. Van Alsenoy, here.

It takes a village to finish a PhD

Les bots de Messenger s’apprêtent à faire de la publicité

Numerama, ici.

Oracle Says Google Didn’t Play Fair, Wants Third Trial (Oh God)

S.  Jeong, here.

The Moral Psychology of Copyright Infringement

C. Buccafusco & D.Fagundes, here.

Uber Sues Over TfL Rules Making Drivers Take English Exams

Bloomberg, here.

Russian court rejects Google’s latest Android antitrust appeal

TechCrunch, here. 

The Economic Impact of Removing GEO-Blocking Restrictions in the EU Digital Single Market

N. Duch-Brown, B. Martens, here.

Uber as For-Profit Hiring Hall: A Price-Fixing Paradox and its Implications

S. Paul, here.

The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

M. Van Alstyne, M. Schrage, here.

Wettbewerbsregeln für das digitale Zeitalter

A. Wambach, here. 

Attention Brokers

T. Wu, here. 

Expect Little Antitrust Challenge to Walmart’s Bid for Jet.com

NYTimes, here. 

Intel Cuts the Cord With New VR Headset Called Project Alloy

Bloomberg, here.

Intel creates quasi Hollywood studio for sports and entertainment VR

VentureBeat, here. 

Price Discrimination Markets Lead Antitrust Enforcers to Increased Success

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

MIT Media Lab Launched Disobedience Award, Funded By Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn)

TechCrunch, here.

Media, sports companies rattled by planned EU copyright shake-up

Euractiv, here and Reuters here (spot the differences). 

EU to crack down on online services such as WhatsApp over privacy

TheGuardian, here.

La fin de la prise jack sur l’iPhone 7 ouvrirait une nouvelle ère pour l’écosystème Apple

Numérama, ici.

La confiance est-elle une donnée personnelle comme les autres ?

LINC, ici.

The Internet Value Chain

A.T. Kearney for the GSMA, here.

Researchers track the trackers through 20 years of the archived web

TechCrunch, here.

Audi vernetzt seine Autos in den USA mit Ampel-Infrastruktur

Heise.de, hier.

Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers: An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016

A. Lerner, A. Kornfeld Simpson, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner, here.

XS4ALL and KPN end privacy violations digital TV

Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, here. 

Google lets any publisher apply to have “Critic Reviews” of local businesses

SearchEngineLand, here.

Supermärkte sollen ihre Einkaufspreise offenlegen

FAZ, hier.

Internet of Things strategies are going from general to specialized and vertical

Recode, here.

Der Adblocker und die Pressefreiheit

Handelsblatt, hier.

Werner Herzog’s meditations on a connected world

TechCrunch, Videos (trailer and interview) here.

Clausewitz: "Der Krieg ist mit seinem Resultat nie etwas Absolutes

Endlich ist selbst die Totalentscheidung eines ganzen Krieges nicht immer für eine absolute anzusehen...
10. Die Wahrscheinlichkeiten des wirklichen Lebens treten an die Stelle des Äußersten und Absoluten der Begriffe"

Moore’s Law gilt nicht mehr. Na und?

FAZ, hier.

South Korea says investigating whether Google broke antitrust laws

Reuters, here.

Creator of chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines now tackling homelessness

TheGuardian, here.

Stellungnahme zur 9. GWB-Novelle vom 25. Juli 2016

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Adblock Plus has already defeated Facebook's new ad blocking restrictions

TheVerge, here.

Google Fined for Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android

NYTimes, here.

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Ökonomische Auswirkungen einer Bildungs- und Wissenschaftsschranke im Urheberrecht

J. Haucap, I. Loebert, G. Spindler, S. Thorwarth, hier.

The View from the Shop— Antitrust and the Decline of America’s Independent Businesses

S. Mitchell, here.

Boundedly rational entrepreneurs and antitrust

A. Tor, here.

Facebook Blocks Ad Blockers, but It Strives to Make Ads More Relevant

NYTimes, here.

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Forum, Boston Review, here.

Will Uber Rouse the Trustbusters?

Slate, here.

FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts For Restricting Competitive Keyword Advertising

E. Goldman, here.

Decentralizing the Web: Two Technological Approaches

Digitaltrends, here.

Copyright and Distributive Justice

J. Hughes, R. Merges, here.

Data-Generating Patents

B. Simon, T. Sichelman, here.

Privacy scandal haunts Pokemon GO's CEO

The Intercept, here.

Protecting the Olympic Properties

M. Wüthrich, here.

FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts, Charging that It Harms Competition in Online Search Advertising Auctions and Restricts Truthful Advertising to Consumers

FTC, here.

US Government Now Has An Official Open Source Software Policy

TechDirt, here.

GPL-Klage gegen VMware abgewiesen

Heise.de, hier.

HEIST is a big DEAL

D. Carroll, here.

Apple versus the banks

Australiancompetitionlaw.org, here.

How Uber Manages Drivers Without Technically Managing Drivers

FastCompany, here.

Yelp, TripAdvisor: Google’s mobile ‘best-of lists’ hide our content

SearchEngineLand, here.

Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter

TechCrunch, here.

CMA: swipe right to disrupt banks

FT, here.

CMA's Final Report here.
Appendices here.

Amazon Japan offices raided by Fair Trade Commission

Asahi.com, here.

Digital SMEs intervene in the EU antitrust case against Google practices with respect to Android

Digitalsme, here.

Jeux sur votre smartphone : quand c’est gratuit …

CNIL, ici,

"Our job is to align supply and demand in time and space"

Take Eat Easy, here.

What Is the Decentralized Web? 24 Experts Break it Down

iSchool@Syracuse, here.

Credit card market study: Final findings report

FCA, here.

Commission accepts commitments by Paramount on cross-border pay-TV services

EC, here.

Successful opening of German gas markets allows early termination of E.ON commitments

EC, here.

Can you own digital data?

Datalandscape, here.

Big data company Teradata acquires UK’s Big Data Partnership

TechCrunch, here.

Platform Wars: The Final Score

B. Evans, here.

Hotels vs. Airbnb: Let the Battle Begin

NYTimes, here.

The joy of data

BBC documentary, here.

A must-watch for my students - and almost everybody else!

Big Data first mentioned at 46:33.

Possible "concerns" get 4 seconds (hours in my course).

Coffee and donuts in first US commercial drone delivery

Theeit.org, here.

The Economist asks: Richard Thaler

The Economist, Podcast here.

Indien: Ringing Bells hat erste 3-Euro-Smartphones ausgeliefert

Heise.de, hier.