Is Your Blockchain Business Doomed?

Bloomberg, here.

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, advertisers rethink Facebook data

Digiday, here.

Horizontal mergers and innovation: why I agree with Tommaso Valletti

Chilling Competition, here.

-International Skating Union’s Eligibility rules

CASE AT.40208, here.

Should We Be Concerned About Data-Opolies?

M. Stucke, here.

TRASPORTO MERCI DA E PER LA SARDEGNA: SANZIONI DI 29 MLN DI EURO A MOBY E CIN PER ABUSO POSIZIONE DOMINANTE

AGCM, Qui.

Campaigners hit Cambridge Analytica where it hurts

FT, here.

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing

Doc Searls, here.

EU plans to pull ‘free’ digital services under consumer protection rules

Euractiv, here.

Vertical Mergers

ICN, Video here (Session 1 - 22 March 2018). 

5 takeaways from EU green light for ‘Baysanto’ mega-merger

Politico.eu, here.

Independent Assessor's Report on Facebook's Privacy Program (2012-2013)

PWC, here. 

Geoblocking Regulation enters into force today

EC, here. 

Online Markets and Vertical Restraints: the Same Old Story?

ICN, Video here  (Session 2 - 22 March 2018). The Italian proceedings mentioned (taxi reservation platforms) are here. Interest remarks by ACCC (from 45:15).

What happens when an algorithm cuts your health care

The Verge, here.

Statement by Commissioner Vestager on Commission decision to give conditional approval to Bayer's plans to buy Monsanto ecc.

Press Release, here. See also here. Video of the press conference here (innovation concerns esp. 28:30 ff.). 

Data Economy: some etichettte in due languages

Mia, ad Alpbach Trento qui.

Salesforce will Konkurrenten für knapp 6 Milliarden Dollar kaufen

FAZ, hier.

Why mergers between old-media titans do not matter

FT, here.

Opinion on online manipulation and personal data

EDPS, here.

Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks

Channel 4, Video here. 

Uber halts self-driving tests after death in Arizona

FT, here. 

Google launches cost-per-sale Shopping Actions

Search Engine Land, here. 

Bill Kovacic interviews Andrea Coscelli

Video, here. 

Zuck, You've Got Mail (from Ron Wyden)

Here. 

On Facebook and its "data ecosystem"

Google macht Amazon neue Konkurrenz

FAZ, hier. 

Beware the Big Five

T. Shaw, here.

Meet the data war whistleblower

The Guardian, here.

“Facebook could see it was happening,” says Wylie. “Their security protocols were triggered because Kogan’s apps were pulling this enormous amount of data, but apparently Kogan told them it was for academic use. So they were like, ‘Fine’.”

The Video is also quite instructive, but, wait a minute, he doesn’t even trust HIS OWN  MUM ?!?

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

The Guardian, here.

The “New Madison” Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law

M. Delrahim, here.

ICN Vertical Mergers Survey Report

ICN, here.

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected

Recode, here.

China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

Reuters, here.

Diritti TV per la Serie A: via libera a Mediapro, ma sia intermediario equo, trasparente e non discriminatorio

AGCM, qui.

Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe; Jahresbericht 2017

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

'Hipster antitrust' movement is all action, no plan

D. Balto, M. Lane, here.

MasterCard and IBM to set up European ‘data trust’

FT, here.
*warning*: more than avarage legal errors in the article, but the news is there

Probe urged into break-up of big four accountants

FT, here.

DOJ v. AT&T: Transcript of Discussion & Preview of Key Arguments at Trial

Capital Forum, here.

Robotergehirne brauchen Regeln

SZ, hier.

LinkedIn attempts to have data-scraping injunction dismissed

iapp, here. 

Are Important Innovations Rewarded? Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Kyle, here. 

The First Priority of Antitrust Analysis is Getting It Right, Not Making it Easier

Truth on the Market, here.

This Supreme Court Case Could Make Corporate Giants Even More Powerful

The Nation, here. 

EDPS on privacy protection under the PSD2

Kenneth Rogoff concerned by the dark side of the technology revolution

Afr.com, here.

WhatsApp signs public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until data protection concerns are addressed

ICO, here.

THE EBA’S FINTECH ROADMAP

EBA, here. 

Competition watchdog raids Amazon’s Tokyo headquarters (again)

FT, here. 

General Court confirms that ‘La Mafia se sienta a la mesa’ cannot be a trade mark on public policy grounds

IPKat, here. 

Bruno Le Maire s’attaque à l’App Store et Google Play

Numérama, ici. 

Google targeted under EU plan to regulate search engines

FT, here. 

FinTech: Commission takes action for a more competitive and innovative financial market

EC, here. FinTech Action Plan here. 

Horizontal Mergers and Innovation

B. Jullien and Y. Lefouili, here. 

BAD ACTORS ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA EXACTLY AS DESIGNED

Wired, here. 

Warum die Politik künstliche Intelligenz regulieren will

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Liability of Online Service Providers for Copyrighted Content – Regulatory Action Needed?

J. Nordemann for the EP, here. 

How to Economize Consumer Protection

M. Baye, J. Wright, here. 

An Updated Antitrust Review of the Bayer-Monsanto Merger

M. Stucke, A. Grunes, here. 

FROM METRO TO COTY: A STORY TO BE CONTINUED? THE CJEU'S JUDGMENT IN COTY GERMANY GMBH V PARFÜMERIE AKZENTE GMBH

A. Cicala, K. Haegeman, R. Cuff, here. 

THE GOVERNANCE & REGULATION OF INFORMATION PLATFORMS

Symposium, Video here (6:15:48).

U.N. investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis

Reuters, here. 

John Oliver helps you explain cryptocurrencies to your neighbor

J. Oliver, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web

The Guardian, here. 

FCA publishes discussion paper on transforming culture in financial services

FCA, here.

An ‘electric shock’ when I switched energy provider

FT, here.

GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

Hardocp.com, here. 

Inequality: What would Karl Marx write today?

FT, here. 

And this year’s Oscar goes to… BigML machine learning

E. Dans, here. 

Trump, Time Warner, AT&T and How to Win the Antitrust Trial of the Century

HollywoodReporter, here. 

The Bank of Amazon could woo 70 million US customers within five years

FinExtra, here. 

8th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements

EC, here. 

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, here. 

Fair markets in a digital world

M. Vestager, here. 

Reconciling competition and IP law: the case of patented pharmaceuticals and dominance abuse

C. Fonteijn, I. Akker and W. Sauter, here. 

Accounting for Two-Sided Business Reality Reduces False Negatives as Well as False Positives in Antitrust Decisions Involving Platform Enterprises

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?

NYTimes, here. 

La portabilité des données en pratique

Infolabs, ici. 

Bayer in exclusive talks to sell vegetable seeds business to BASF

Reuters, here. 

The New Brandeis Movement: America’ s Antimonopoly Debate

L. Khan, here. 

Staatsministerin für falsche Versprechungen und fliegende Autos

DieZeit, hier. 

Free flow of non-personal data

EP, Draft Report, here. 

Data Portability And Competition Between Technology Platforms

Forbes, here. 

EU executive to propose raft of measures to boost fintech: document

Reuters, here. 

The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights: the evolution of thought underlying policy change

R. Anderson and W. Kovacic, here. 

Publication des conclusions de l'enquête sectorielle publicité en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, ici et here. 

The First Priority of Antitrust Analysis is Getting It Right, Not Making it Easier

Truth On The Market, here. 

The European Union Anti-Geoblocking Regulation Isn’t the End of the Anti-Geoblocking Battle

M. Trimble, here. 

Here’s Why Amazon Bought a Doorbell Company

Bloomberg Technology, here. 

The Impact of Blockchain on Business Models

H. Tayyab Kamal & S. Tayyab, here. 

On the copyright protection of tastes

ECS, here. 

Bietet Amazon bald eigene Girokonten an?

FAZ, hier. 

ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF BIG DATA AND ALGORITHMS

DLA Piper, Presentation here. 

Ebook-Portal Gutenberg.org sperrt deutsche Nutzer

Br.de, hier. 

Die neuen Plattform-Giganten

J. Haucap, hier. 

COFECE reconoce al Congreso de la Unión por aprobación de Ley Fintech

COFECE, aquì. 

The Platform is the Message

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Antitrust Conversations with Nobel Laureates

T. Schrepel, here. 

Big Pharma, Big Data-Why Drugmakers Want Your Health Records

NYTimes, here.