A Billionaire and a Yogi Team Up to Challenge WhatsApp. No, Not a Joke

Bloomberg, here. 

Ant Financial Raises $14 Billion as Funding Round Closes

Bloomberg, here,

Google promises no more use of its artificial intelligence tech in weapons

BoingBoing, here. 

Google Pay startet Ende Juni in Deutschland – mit der Commerzbank

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Several measures announced aimed at streamlining and simplifying mergers' procedures for companies

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

The Internet: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?

CMA, here.

Inquiry here. 

The effect of market consolidation on innovation in the HDD industry

A.R. Bennato, S. Davies, F. Mariuzzo, P. Osmosi, here. 

Taxi, ride-sourcing and ride-sharing services - Summaries of Contributions

OECD, here. 

The Facebook comma

Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data

C. Russell, J. Reidenberg, E. Martin, T. Norton, here. 

Airbnb removes 80% of Japan home-share listings

Asian Review, here. 

EU Competition Law Goals and the Digital Economy

A. Ezrachi, here.

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

NYTimes, here. See also 

It’s all happening in Australian competition law

Australian Competition Law, here.

Paul Francis: “We can achieve very good anonymity and still provide useful analytics”

LINC, here.

Automated individual decision-making and profiling?

ICO, here.

Google’s mobile web dominance raises competition eyebrows

Politico, here.

The Cost of Developers

Stratechery, here.

Control, Alt or Delete?

Which,.here..

Citi opens API sandbox

Finextra, h.

The Guardian view on Amazon: not a normal monopoly

The Guardian, here.

Deutsche Verbände zur ePrivacy-Verordnung

Hier.

DATENHANDEL UND PLATTFORMEN

R. Dewenter, H.Lüth, hier.

Killer Acquisitions

C. Cunningham, F. Ederer, S. Ma, here.

Unlockd will 'cease to exist' if Google blocks the app

Financial Review, here. 

Goldman Sachs Doesn't Think There's a Bubble in Tech Stocks

Bloomberg, here. 

Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion, Moving to Grow in Coding’s New Era

NYTimes, here. 

The Ideological Roots of America's Market Power Problem

L. Khan, here. 

A Letter to the FTC re Google

K. Ellison, here. 

Entry, Innovation and Productivity Growth in the U.S. Economy: Facts and Open Questions (i.e., Puzzles)

J. Haltiwanger, Presentation here. 

GitHub users are already fuming about the company’s sale to Microsoft for $7.5bn

Quartz, here.
Heise.de, hier: "Mal losgelöst von steuerlichen Erwägungen, die aus Microsoft-Sicht für die Akquisition sprechen, mag es für die Redmonder wohl auch darum gehen, die riesige Zahl der registrierten GitHub-Anwender – die Rede ist von 27 Millionen – zu den eigenen Angeboten insbesondere im Azure-Umfeld zu locken. Wie verheißend mag für Microsoft ein direkt aus GitHub nach Azure führender Deploy-Button sein!"

(Follow the data?)

Amazon and PayPal more trusted amongst younger generation than banks to hold their personal data

RFi Group, here. 

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda

NBER, Conference Papers here. 

Taking control of personal data is about your rights, not owning it

J. Tennison, here. 

A Study of NASA Scientists Shows How to Overcome Barriers to Open Innovation

HBR, here. 

Could the Steward Health v. BCBS Trial Revitalize Monopolization Law?

C. Sagers, here. 

So you think Alipay is just for the Chinese?

The Finanser, here. 

La rivoluzione copernicana del 25 maggio 2018 in materia di privacy

G. Buttarelli, here. 

U.S. Antitrust Law Could Break OPEC's Collusion On Oil Production Deals

Seeking Alpha, here. 

Evident Internet Market Failure To Protect Consumer Welfare

S. Cleland, here. 

Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure

Democracy Journal, here. 

N26 will im Herbst in Amerika starten

FAZ, hier. 

Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends

NYTimes, here. 

Erste Bank will Google Pay anbieten

Die Zeit, hier. 

Wenn Amazon das Wohnzimmer zur Bank macht

Spiegel.de, hier.

Lively panel discussing the book ‘Economic negationism’ with one of the Authors, Pierre Cahuc

Video here. Just skip the introduction.

Cayman Islands-based blockchain start-up raises more than $4bn through an ICO offering

FT, here.

Tecnologia e lavoro prima della Rivoluzione Industriale: Il vetro di Murano

F. Trivellato, Video qui.

Artificial Intelligence: rethinking the business model

A. Goldfarb, Podcast here. 

Attempts at overcoming surveillance capitalism? Good luck with that

E. Morozov, video here (from 20:25) - at Trento Economics Festival.

The Multilateral Framework on Procedures in Competition Law Investigation and Enforcement (MFP)

M. Delrahim, here.

ICANN's Pre-emptive Attack On The GDPR Thrown Out By Court In Germany

TechDirt, here.

The Emancipation of Antitrust from Market-Share-Based Approaches

D. Zimmer, here. 

Amazon works its way deeper into customers’ lives

FT, here.

When technology serves people

M. Vestager, here.

Unternehmensberatung soll Renault und Peugeot bei Preisabsprachen geholfen haben

Spiegel.de, hier. 

An American Alternative to Europe’s Privacy Law

T. Wu, here.

Privacy by Design

EDPS, Opinion here.

Antitrust via Rulemaking: Competition Catalysts

T. Wu, here.

Consumer Costs of Anticompetitive Regulations

Open Markets Institute, Comments here.

Vestager: “Tiene sentido que las empresas paguen a los usuarios por sus datos”

ElPais, aquì.

A framework for the moderation of user-generated online content that puts human rights at the very centre

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, here. 

Susan Athey: Why Business Leaders Shouldn’t Have Blind Faith in AI

Gsb.stanford.edu, here. 

Europe’s bank bosses stress need for consolidation

FT, here. 

Los bancos europeos piden poner coto a las tecnológicas

Expansion, aquì.

Fintech Developments: FTC, FDIC, OCC and More

Manatt, here. 

Keine Verfahrenseinleitung gegen die Lufthansa wegen Preishöhenmissbrauchs

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht hier. 

Bayern-Fußballstar James führt eigene Kryptowährung ein

FAZ, hier. 

Brad Smith:"the single greatest cost was the distraction...we missed search"

Recode, Video here (at (8:32).
Missed: not aware or didn't dare (to hamper Google et al. because of the annoying DoJ's antitrust laser beam)?

Going to show this video to my students...forever.

Funny though that antitrust might be considered a distraction by Big Tech, while many of their tools are generally considered weapons of mass distraction.

On First Day of GDPR, Ad Industry's Fears About Google Come True

Bloomberg, here. 

Cyber crooks claim to hit two big Canadian banks

Reuters, here. 

Justice department approves Bayer-Monsanto merger in landmark settlement

Washington Post, here. DoJ here. 

BancoEstado reabre cuenta a plataforma de criptomonedas

LaTercera, aquì. Background here.
TDCL: Demanda aquì; Resolución, aquí

Die Buchpreisbindung in einem sich ändernden Marktumfeld

Monopolkommission, hier. S. auch hier. 

From Open Banking to Open Everything

J. Fingleton, here. 

Microsoft is creating an oracle for catching biased AI algorithms

MIT Technology Review, here. 

DATENRECHTE – EINE RECHTS - UND SOZIALWISSENSCHA FTLICHE ANALYSE IM VERGLEICH DEUTSCHLAND - USA

L. Specht, W. Kerber, hier. 

ICANN goes to Court

Hier. 

Legal Engineering on the Blockchain: 'Smart Contracts' as Legal Conduct

J. Goldenfein, A. Leiter, here. 

Angela Merkel fordert Besteuerung von Daten

Zeit.de, hier. 

Why China’s Payment Apps Give U.S. Bankers Nightmares

Bloomberg, here. 

A Brief History of AI

F. Corea, here. 

Who will win the race for AI?

FT, here.

Fintechs and regulatory compliance

Deloitte, here. 

The G.D.P.R., Europe’s New Privacy Law, and the Future of the Global Data Economy

J. Powles, here. 

Data, algorithms and policies

ECLAC, here. 

What You Should Do With All Those Privacy-Policy Emails Before You Delete Them

A. Glaser, here. 

How to recognize the banks that can survive the fintech threat

American Banker, Podcast here.

RGPD : vous voulez récupérer vos données ? My Data Request vous accompagne

Numerama, ici.

Leave Silicon Valley alone

The Week, here.

Building a cathedral: digital markets, economics-based enforcement and commitment to sound procedures

M. Delrahim, here.

HOW EUROPE'S GDPR REGULATIONS BECAME A MEME

Wired, here.

Google employees are being targeted with this ad urging them to consider their role in making search rankings more fair

Recode.net, here.

More effective than competition enforcement?

How Can Humans Keep the Upper Hand? The ethical matters raised by algorithms and artificial intelligence

CNIL, here. 

Antitrust Enforcement Against Platform MFNs

J. Baker, F. Scott Morton, here.

Multisided Platforms and Antitrust Enforcement

M. Katz and J. Sallet, here. 

Beyond Brooke Group: Bringing Reality to the Law of Predatory Pricing

C. Hemphill and P. Weiser, here. 

Invigorating Vertical Merger Enforcement

S. Salop, here. 

AI IN FINANCIAL SERVICES: NEXT STEPS TO REALISING THE POTENTIAL

FinExtra, here. 

#GDPRDay

HT to @GMamdani