The Battle of the Tech Brains

Bloomberg, here. 

Tech Giants Seem Invincible. That Worries Lawmakers.

NYTimes, here. 

"Through A Glass, Darkly" Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages

R. Whitt, here. 

The death of the single price?

BBC, Money Box, Podcast here. 

Competition concerns over Mastercard/VocaLink merger

CMA, here. 

Adtech funding drops in face of Facebook-Google duopoly

FT, here.

“Even if you manage to build a sustainable advantage for a few years, how do you scale to compete with Google or Facebook? That’s why traditional adtech does feel dead from a venture perspective.”

Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas

TheEconomist, here. 

Zwischenlösung im Streit über Vergütungsregel für digitale Semesterapparate

Heise.de, hier. 

How Online Retailers Ripped You Off These Holidays

Interview with A. Ezrachi and M. Stucke, Podcast here (from 3:42).

Intel: Analysing the Advocate General’s Opinion

Concurrences, here. 

Recent issues in Antitrust in the Pharmaceutical sector

Concurrences, here. 

2016 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets

US Trade Representative, here. 

Uber explains why it looks like its app is still tracking your location, long after drop-off

TechCrunch, here. 

We need European regulation of Facebook and Google

L. Andrews, here. 

Schnelle Eskalation des Patentstreites: Nokia fordert iPhone-Verkaufsstopp

Heise.de, hier. 

The Obama Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy

A. Agrawal, J. Gans, A. Goldfarb, here. 

The Copyright Office Report On Software-Enabled Consumer Products, Part Ii: Interoperability And Competition

J. Band, here. 

Ski Taxi SA, Follo Taxi SA og Ski Follo Taxidrift AS v Staten v/Konkurransetilsynet

EFTA Court, here. 

Senator Al Franken asks Uber for more clarity on new location data sharing

TechCrunch, here. 

Big Banks Are Stocking Up on Blockchain Patents

Bloomberg, here. 

Nokia accused by Apple of ‘patent troll’ tactics

Bloomberg, here. 

'Biggest Ad Fraud Ever': Hackers Make $5M A Day By Faking 300M Video Views

Forbes, here.

Alphabet tried to convince Wall Street it’s not just a search engine this year

TechCrunch, here. 

3D Printed Bio-Tissues: Navigating Patent Protection

3dprint.com, here. 

Putting data back into the hands of owners

TechCrunch, here. 

La « responsabilité sociale des plateformes » devrait devenir réalité en 2018

Nextinpact, ici. 

The European Data Market Monitoring Tool

Datalandscape.eu, here. 

American Airlines wins $15 million in antitrust case against Sabre

Reuters, here. 

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy

The White House, here.

New York Appeals Court Rules No Public Performance Rights in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings

HollywoodReporter, here. 

Discrimination by algorithm: scientists devise test to detect AI bias

Theguardian, here. 

Übernahme von LinkedIn durch Microsoft: 26 Mil­li­arden Dollar-Daten

lto.de, hier. 

L'IA est plus artificielle que réellement intelligente, la raison pour laquelle elle est si vulnérable

Linc, ici. 

Thinking Outside the Blocks

BCG, here. 

How to Force Our Machines to Play Fair

QuantaMagazine, here.. 

What IoT players can learn from software monetization

Deloitte, here. 

Amazon launches Amazon Pay Balance in bid to increase cashless transactions

LiveMint, here. 

Qualité des données client : le maillon faible de votre transformation numérique ?

LesEchos, ici.

Commission alleges Facebook provided misleading information about WhatsApp takeover

Press Release, here. 

Microsoft’s plan to use machine learning to improve eyecare in India

TechCrunch, here. 

Cost benefit analysis of changes to the Copyright Act 1968 (Fair Use)

Ernst & Young for the AU Department of Communications and the Arts, here. 

Tom Friedman: The internet is an 'open sewer’

Recode, Podcast here. 

The limits of parental consent in an algorithmic world

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

First take on the leaked e-Privacy Regulations

ORG, here. 

Kongress "Love and Sex with Robots": Menschen, Maschinen, große Gefühle

Heise.de, hier. 

Among Nature's 10: The founder of an illegal hub for paywalled papers

Nature.com, here. 

CWD, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse File Complaint Over Google/Doubleclick Privacy Pledge

Here. 

Intellectual Property Arrangements: Inquiry Report

Productivity Commission, here. 

Verbraucherrecht 2.0

Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, hier.

Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (FY 2017-2019)

The Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, here.

Big Data and The Great A.I. Awakening. Interview with Steve Lohr

R. Zicari, here.

Data and Analytics Strategy Predictions Through 2021

Blogs.Gartner, here.

Designing Competitive Markets for Industrial Data - Between Propertisation and Access

J. Drexl, here.

Amazon wants to cut out the middleman and book freight directly with an app

ArsTechnica, here. 

'My Other Bag' Appeal Not Looking Promising for Louis Vuitton

TheFashionLaw, here. 

Joint Committee Discussion Paper on the Use of Big Data by Financial Institutions

EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA (the ESAs), here.

Standards project addressing data privacy processes and methodologies

IEEE Standards Association, here. 

Landscaping study on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)

IPlytics, here. 

Transparency, Predictability, and Efficiency of SSO-based Standardization and SEP Licensing

CRA for the EC, here. 

Actavis Targeted by U.K. for Raising Drug Price by 12,000%

Bloomberg, here. 

Yahoo would be liable to pay an $198m fine were GDPR already enforced

Cityam.com, here. 

Evernote backs off from controversial privacy policy changes, says it 'messed up'

PCWorld, here. 

Labour wants tech firms like Google and Facebook to disclose what's under the hood

BusinessInsider UK, here. 

Building digital trust: The role of data ethics in the digital age

Accenture, here. 

Study on Big Data in Public Health, Telemedine and Healthcare

EC, here. 

Alleged Aid to Apple

Decision, C(2016) 5605 final, here. 

Germany-wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access

BoingBoing, here. 

Protection of press publications concerning digital uses: Unnecessary, undesirable, unclear, unlikely to be effective

UK IP Scholars, here. 

UN General Assembly Resolution: TRIPS Flexibilities, High-Level Panel On Medicines Access

IPWatch, here. 

So what does it really mean to be a world-leading competition and consumer agency?

CMA, here. 

The Whatchamacallit Economy

NYTimes, here. 

How Much of Health Care Antitrust is Really Antitrust?

S. Weber Waller, here. 

Does Antitrust Have A Role to Play in Regulating Big Data?

D. Sokol, R. Comerford, here. 

Effects Analysis in Abuse of Dominance Cases in China – Is Qihoo 360 v Tencent a Game-Changer?

A. Emch, here. 

Individual Sanctions for Competition Law Infringements: Pros, Cons and Challenges

Concurrences, here. 

Private Enforcement of EU Antitrust Law and its Relationship with Public Enforcement: Past, Present and Future

W. Wils, here. 

Exploitative Abuses of Intellectual Property Rights

H. First, here. 

Access Barriers to Big Dta

D. Rubinfeld, M. Gal, here. 

How Do App Stores Challenge the Global Internet Governance Ecosystem?

V. Almeida, D. Doneda, C. Rossini, here. 

Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable?

M. Sag, here. 

The Privacy Tools Project

Harvardmagazine, here. 

How Search Engines Are Killing Clever URLs

TheAtlantic, here. 

Why you should be afraid of Google’s expansion into hardware

VentureBeat, here. 

Kartellamt fordert mehr Verbraucherschutz im Netz

Heise.de, hier. 

Software-Enabled Consumer Products

US Copyright Office, here.

Guidelines on the right to "data portability"

Art.29 WP, here.

Yahoo sale proxy: A $145 million termination fee, 51 possible bidders and a scotched offer from Yahoo Japan

Recode, here. 

This 'Aggregator' App for Uber and Lyft Rides Hopes to Make the Cut

Fortune.com, here.

Legal services market study

CMA, here. 

How machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself

Nytimes, here. 

ClickClickClick : l’étrange site web qui révèle ce que vos clics disent de vous

Cnetfrance.fr, ici. 

Mind over matter: is scarcity as much about psychology as it is economics?

Bank Underground (Bank of England), here. 

Loyauté des plateformes, d’accord, mais loyauté à quoi ?

Rue89.nouvelobs.com, ici. 

Entwurf der ePrivacy-Verordnung: Erste Anmerkungen

DeLegeData, hier. 

Accélérer ensemble la transformation numérique de nos économies

Conférence numérique franco-allemande, ici.  

Mobile phones are transforming Africa, where they can get a signal

TheEconomist, here. 

Competition cartel settlement decision annuled by Court

Case T‑95/15, here.

Microsoft debuts brilliant Cortana SDK strategy

Searchengineland, here. 

US privacy rules stir confusion

TheHill, here. 

Leaked: Draft EU Commission Communication on the Data Economy

Here.