Saturday, October 08, 2016

Big data, smart enforcement

BEUC, here.

Strengthening Competition: Innovation, Collaboration and Transparency

J. Pecman, here.

Facebook/WhatsApp data swap deal being probed by Spanish agency

IndianExpress, here.

L'éditeur de logiciels Nexedi assigne Apple au tribunal de commerce de Paris

Challenges.fr, ici.

Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating

TechCrunch, here.

Verizon will soon start selling data plans for drones

TheVerge, here.

Apple mysteriously banned a popular app from its App store ... and a lot of programmers are mad

BusinessInsider, here.

Monetizing car data

McKinsey.de, here.

An in-depth analysis of how Expedia converts visitors into customers

EconConsultancy, Part One here.

Thursday, October 06, 2016

Patent Assertion Entity Activity

FTC, here.

Only 146 pages, actually

I have seen the future of the Internet: Millions of rogue fridges will render it unusable

G. Moody, here

Protecting Privacy for Broadband Consumers

FCC, here

Big Data Rights: Let's Get Together

EDPS, here

The Pros and Cons of the Sharing Economy

Seminar in Stockholm staged by the Swedish Competition Authority on Friday 11 November, programme here, webcast here.

Neue Behörde soll Google bändigen

Handelsblatt, hier

Google's AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare

W. Turton, here

Echanges d’information : nouvelles frontières

Concurrences, ici.

Sabotaging the Competition: Lessons from Intel

M. Sonwinsky, Video here.

When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

ProPublica, here

Effectiveness of the purely turnover-based jurisdictional thresholds of the EU Merger Regulation

EC, Evaluation Roadmap, here

The Rise of the Machines – How Automated Digital Assistants Can Reduce Competition (and the Cash in Your Wallet)

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Software patents are deadweight loss to economy, says Federal Circuit

WorldIPReview, here.

Life After Android: The Battle Of The Platforms Heats Up

Forbes, here.

Market Study Online Video Streaming Platforms

ACM, Video Here.

Well, these online platforms have been around for a while already, but it's true that they're continously evolving. In fact, it's tough to produce a market study in this area that isn't at least partly outdated while the ink is barely dry on it.

Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products

ArsTechnica, here.

Bibliography of Materials Relevant to the Interaction of Competition Policy, Big Data and Personal Data

C. Ritter, here.

The US no longer controls the address book for the Internet

Wired, here.

Free Trade Agreements Should Promote Generic Competition, Speakers Say At WTO

IP-Watch, here

Accelerating the Internet of Things in the UK: Using policy to support practice

RAND, here.
"...the survey results highlight that there is a strong
perception that consumers should be in control of their personal data at all times, signalling a distinctive move towards individuals themselves acting as their own ‘data controllers’."

Seedy business: Patent war looms over Europe’s crop diversity

Politico.eu, here

Enhancing competition in retail

R. Sims, here

Avec Marketplace, Facebook déclare officiellement la guerre à LeBonCoin

Numerama, ici

Révolution cartographique ?

Arte, Le dessous des cartes, Vidéo ici

Amazon Bets Big on India's Busiest Shopping Season

Bloomberg, here

Google invents a Touch Gesture System Designed Specifically for Future Smart Garments

Patentlyapple.com, here

Mergers would cut ‘Big 6’ to ‘Big 4’

Iowafarmertoday, here

A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy

J. Balkin, J. Zittrain, here

What The Rise And Stall Of Pokemon Go Can Teach Creative Marketers

Fastcocreate.com, here

Peut-on revendre la copie de sauvegarde d'un logiciel ? Réponse de la CJUE le 12 octobre

NextImpact, ici. . 

Monday, October 03, 2016

Salesforce Will Press Two Big Points in LinkedIn Antitrust Fight

thestreet.com, here.

The Netflix library has collapsed 50% in total title count since 2012

Exstreamist, here  

Online sales of posters and frames

CMA, Decision, here.

'Maintaining good relationships with customers is a legitimate objective, however where such an objective is achieved by means of an anti- competitive arrangement, that arrangement can be regarded as having an anti-competitive object.'

'Repricing software is normally used by online
sellers to compete with other online sellers by automatically adjusting
the prices of their products in response to the live prices of competitors’
products...However, in the present case the repricing software was
configured by the Parties to restrict price competition between them in
order to give effect to the Infringing Agreement'.

Fighting bid rigging in public procurement

Report on implementing the OECD Recommendation, here

Geographic market definition across national borders

OECD Background Paper, here. 

PCW Report

UK Regulators Network, here.
Letter to the CMA, here.
Notes from an acedemic seminar, here

Indirect Evidence in Cartel Cases

J. Kloub, Presentation here

Filmmakers Stealing From Painters: 20 Examples of Films That “Remixed” a Painting

Mentorless, here

Survey and data gathering to support the evaluation of the Satellite and Cable Directive 93/83/EEC and assessment of its possible extension

Study prepared for the European Commission, here.

Exploring Data Portability

The White House, here

Friday, September 30, 2016

Boehringer ordered to turn over documents in antitrust probe

Reuters, here.

55 percent of online shoppers start their product searches on Amazon

Recode, here

Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe: Evidence from Six Countries

B. Herz, K. Kiljański, here

Schär­fere Fusi­ons­kon­trolle für Internet-Unter­nehmen geplant

LTO.de, hier

Wer im Netz Milliarden mit unseren Daten macht

FutureZone.at, hier

A robot could get you the cheapest energy deal - forever

Aol, here

REALITY CHECK: THE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY

A. Hobson, here

Cartel bosses must be prosecuted

Iol.co.za, here

Networks of Control: A Report on Corporate Surveillance, Digital Tracking, Big Data & Privacy

W. Christl, S. Spiekermann, here

Facebook’s privacy head attacks ‘negative’ views around its use of WhatsApp data

MarketingWeek, here

Geo-blocking: BEUC Position Paper

Wer haftet, wenn selbstfahrende Autos Unfälle bauen?

FAZ, hier

Commissioner: UK 'must avoid data protection Brexit'

BBC, here.

Can a competition policy Brexit be avoided?

HP issues non-apology for blocking third-party ink cartridges

TechCrunch, here

Novel But a Long Time Coming: The Bundeskartellamt Takes on Facebook

R. McLeod, here

Vestager says EU may review small but data-rich M&A deals

Reuters, here

An Algorithm Gives This 3D-Printed Table Countless Permutations

FastCompany, here

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Why almost everyone who tries to build an MSP business fails

R. Schmalensee, Audio here

Salesforce Is Said to Question Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal in Europe

NYTimes, here.

Learning to trust artificial intelligence systems

IBM, here.

Connect Peers

Deloitte, here

'Partnership on AI' formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft

TheGuardian, here

What Facebook Knows About You

ProPublica, here

Opinion on coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data

EDPS, here

Big Data individual rights and enforcement

G. Buttarelli, here.

Pokémon Go menacé par les sculpteurs et architectes

Numerama, ici.

Tech Giants Team Up To Devise An Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence

FastCompany, here.

Principal syndicat professionnel du secteur du mannequinat et 37 agences: entente

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.

EU’s Vestager ‘Exploring’ Need to Probe Deals With Valuable Data

Bloomberg, here.

Big Data and Competition

M. Vestager, here.

CMA launches study into digital comparison tools

CMA, here. Statement of scope, here.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Market Definition in Online Markets: Mission Impossible?

P. Akman, Presentation here

Vertical Restraints and e-Commerce: The Divergence of Economic Analysis and Competition Enforcement

K.-U. Kuehn, here

Uber, competition and regulation

D. Geradin, Presentation here

The European Commission extends its settlement procedure to abuse of dominance cases under Article 102 TFEU

White & Case, here

Why data is the new coal

TheGuardian, here

Fintech: The Regulatory Risks & Opportunities

Mlexmarketinsight.com, here

Neuer Ordnungsrahmen für den Wettbewerb in einer digitalisierten Welt

bmwi.de, hier,

How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property

FEE.org, here