AT&T Shellacs the Government in Time Warner Merger Case

R. Picker, here. 

Bitcoin Technology Opens Up Kenya's $20 Billion Informal Economy

Bloomberg, here. 

Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving From the Warehouse to Headquarters

Bloomberg, here. 

Data Ethics Framework

UK Government, here. 

Singapore to develop code for ethical use of AI and personal data

FT, here. 

Google, Carrefour Partner On eCommerce

Pymnts, here. 

Cryptomanced entity goes to Cade against banks

Devdiscourse.com, here. 

Ofgem issues statement of objections under the Competition Act to Economy Energy, E, and Dyball Associates

Ofgem, here. 

German Federal Court of Justice hands down landmark judgment in Cement Cartel Case

CDC, here. 

La Liga quiere usar móviles de particulares como espías a través de su aplicación

El Pais, aquì. 

Unlockd falls in face of Google threat and enters administration

Financial Review, here. 

Yahoo! fined £250,000 after systemic failures put customer data at risk

ICO, here. 

Le Conseil de la concurrence (LU) exempte l’accord mis en place par Webtaxi S.à.r.l. sur le marché de la réservation préalable de taxis

Décision n. 2018-FO-01, ici. 

Bedeutung digitaler Infrastrukturen in Deutschland. Chancen und Herausforderungen für Rechenzentren im internationalen Wettbewerb

R. Hintemann, J. Clausen, hier. 

Competition Commission of India may suggest structural changes in Walmart-Flipkart deal

Economic Times, here. 

Slower Productivity and Higher Inequality: Are They Related?

J. Furman, P. Orszag, here.

A helping hand for the invisible hand: the FCA’s approach to competition and innovation

C. Woolard, here.

Standard reading for my competition policy students. What a treat!

Is Blockchain the Death of Antitrust Law? The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox

T. Schrepel, here. 

Silicon Valley scooter wars

TechCrunch, here. 

The odd reality of life under China's all-seeing credit score

Wired, here. 

Special Report: Blockchain

FT, here. 

Google’s ties to Chinese telecom firm Huawei raise alarm in Congress

The Washington Post, here. 

Comments of the EDPS on a Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on a framework for the free-flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EDPS, here. 

IBM's world-class Summit supercomputer gooses speed with AI abilities

 Cnet, here.

Merkel auf digitalem Glatteis

FAZ, hier. 

Microsoft will ‘lose developers for a generation’ if it stuffs up GitHub, says future CEO

The Register, here. 

Survey: Consumer trust may be Amazon’s true competitive advantage

Search Engine Land, here. 

Australia’s cozy banking market feels some heat

FT, here. 

Reference re digital exhaustion

Case C-263/18, here. 

‘Big Tech’ Isn’t One Big Monopoly

Project Disco, here. 

The Value of Everything review: How to end the we make, they take economy

The Irish Times, here. 

How Ant Financial grew larger than Goldman Sachs

Cnbc, here. 

Chart of the Week: The Rise of Corporate Giants

IMF Blog, here. 

Technology, Political Economy, and the Role(s) of Law

J. Cohen, here. 

Blockchain at the OECD: Presentations available

Here. 

INDAGINE CONOSCITIVA SUI BIG DATA: PRIMI RISULTATI

AGCM, qui

Ant Financial shifts focus from finance to tech services: sources

Reuters, here. 

Data protection laws are shining a needed light on a secretive industry

B, Schneier, here. 

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.