The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate? Written and Oral Evidence

UK Parliament, here.

Aka Online Platforms: to regulate or not to regulate?

EU-KOMMISSION : Neue Diskussion über Google-Zerschlagung

FAZ, hier.

Kartellrechtliche Ausnahmeregelungen

Monopolkommission, hier.

PREZZI FARMACI ANTITUMORALI RIDOTTI FINO ALL’80%: OTTEMPERANZA DI ASPEN

AGCM, here. 

Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes

The Guardian, here. 

CMA demands pricing action from energy company

Press Release, here. 

EC consults stakeholders on draft guidelines to help national courts estimate the economic harm caused by cartels

Press Release, here.
Draft Guidelines for national courts on how to estimate the share of overcharge which was passed on to the indirect purchaser here. 

BEIS - Modernising Consumer Markets: Green Paper; CCP's Consultation Response

CCP, UEA, here.
Bruce Lyons, here. 

Singapore regulator says Uber-Grab merger may have been unlawful

FT, here. 

Grab/Uber merger: CCCS Provisionally Finds that the Merger Has Substantially Lessened Competition, Proposes Directions to Restore Market Contestability and to Impose Financial Penalties

CCCS, here.
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON POSSIBLE REMEDIES TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL COMPETITION CONCERNS ARISING FROM GRAB/UBER MERGER here.

ANTITRUST IMPLICATIONS OF LABOR PLATFORMS

M. Steinbaum, Podcast here (while you're lying on the beach, you know).

Facebook fan pages and EU data protection law

L. Woods, here. 

Claudette meets GDPR

Study Report, Funded by The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), here.
See also TechCrunch, here.

When copyright goes wrong

R. Corrigan, here. 

Formal comments of the EDPS on a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market

EDPS, here. 

Publication des statistiques agrégées sur le fonctionnement des algorithmes de recommandation, classement ou référencement de contenu

 Assemblée Nationale, ici.

Design et Attention : perspectives critiques

InternetActu, ici.

Control, Alt or Delete? The future of consumer data

Which?, here.

Consumer data in online markets

Oxera for Which?, here.

Modernising consumer markets: Consumer Green Paper

UK Gov, here (IMI: I missed it 😊).

Forscher: Android-Apps schicken Screenshots und Videos an Drittfirmen

Heise.de, hier. 

Government welcomes Lords AI report, vaunts industrial strategy

ComputerWeekly, here. 

Monopolkommission verteidigt Versandapotheken

FAZ, hier. 

Ohio v. Amex, Supply Chain Fairness, and the Inadequacy of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Standard

R. Woodcock, here. 

Facebook confirms that it’s acquiring Bloomsbury AI

TechCrunch, here. 

Data Ownership, Regulation, and Blockchain Dominate Platform Markets

G. Parker, M. Van Alstyne, P. Evans, here. 

COMPETITION WITHOUT COMPETITORS? A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR BIG TECH

N. Petit, Presentation here. 

Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Collusion

U. Schwalbe, here. 

Global Market Power

J. De Loecker, J. Eeckhout, here. 

Legal row between retailers and card processors faces fresh delay

FT, here. 

The Supreme Court just quietly gutted antitrust law

L. Khan, here.

Android Fine May Come in Mid-July as EU Dances Around Trump Trip

Bloomberg, here.

The Regulatory Compass: Towards a purpose-driven approach to financial regulation’

The Finance Innovation Lab, here.

UBS testet digitale Assistenten in der Vermögensverwaltung

FAZ, hier.

FCA welcomes firms working on crypto-assets to latest sandbox cohort

FinExtra, here. 

Report on the impact of Fintech on incumbent credit institutions' business models

EBA, here. 

Report on prudential risks and opportunities arising for institutions from FinTech

EBA, here. 

AT&T promised lower prices after Time Warner merger—it’s raising them instead

ArsTechnica, here.

Statement of FTC Chairman Joe Simons Regarding Federal Court Ruling in FTC v. AbbVie

FTC, here.
Ruling here.

Amazon Ran an die Pille

SZ, hier.

IPG Confirms $2.3 Billion Deal to Acquire Data Marketing Company Acxiom

AdWeek, here.

Stand und Entwicklung der Unternehmenskonzentration in Deutschland

Monopolkommission, hier.

Algorithmen und Kollusion

Monopolkommission, hier.

Big Business Keeps Winning at the Supreme Court

The Atlantic, here. 

Facebook Faces Broadened Federal Investigations Over Data and Privacy

NYTimes, here. 

The Paradox of Technological Déjà Vu

Digitopoly, here. 

La idea de misión

M. Mazzucato, aquì.

ÉCONOMIE AUGMENTÉE. NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES.

Autorit de la concurrence, ici. 

Tech for TechLawyers: The Hardware

N. Brown, Video here. 

Jack Ma Embraces Blockchain for Ant But Warns of Bitcoin Bubble

Bloomberg, here. 

Festrede Andreas Mundt zur 53. Theodor Heuss Preisverleihung

Hier. 

Platforms and personal data processing : the potential for achieving systemic transparency

P.-O. Dehaye, I. Hahn, G. Jargalsaikhan, here.  J

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The state of the Internet in France

Arcep, here. 

Políticas de competencia para una economía digital: el marco regulatorio e institucional y el contexto internacional

G. Núñez, J. De Furquim, M. Pereira, here. 

A Nobel-winning economist’s guide to taming tech monopolies

Quartz, here. 

CMA launches enforcement action against hotel booking sites

CMA, here. 

Data in the payments industry

PSR, Discussion paper, here. 

How the Disney-Fox Deal Got DOJ’s Greenlight Quicker Than Expected

Variety, here. 

With Amex Ruling, Modern IO Theory Makes Important Inroads with SCOTUS

R. Picker, here. 

The future of banking is open

PWC, ODI, here. 

Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch, here. 

The seven-year legal fight between Apple and Samsung over smartphone patents has ended with a whimper

NYTimes, here. 

"Open Banking is a revolution for the whole industry"

J. Basini, here. 

The Effect of Institutional Ownership Types On Innovation and Competition

P. Borochin, J. Yang, R. Zhang, here. 

Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV

K. Waddell, here. 

The internet: to regulate or not to regulate?

UK Parliament, Witnesses here. 

When the Econometrician Shrugged: Identifying and Plugging Gaps in the Consumer Welfare Standard

K. Caves, H. Singer, here. 

The 17 years since the Microsoft antitrust case taught us that regulation can spur innovation

Quartz, here. 

The German cement cartel – a landmark decision for private damages actions

CoRe Blog, here. 

Wettbewerbshüter warnen vor automatisierten Preisabsprachen

WiWo, hier. 

Facebook offers fresh detail about its ties to dozens of outside companies in more than 700 pages of new data turned over to Congress

Washington Post, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and the 'Good Society': The US, EU, and UK Approach

C. Cath et al., here. 

The State of Artificial Intelligence in 2018: A Good Old Fashioned Report

N. Benaich, I. Hogarth, here. 

Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services

Computerweekly, here. 

Government response to House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Select Committee’s Report on AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?

UK Gov, here. 

Gütekriterien für algorithmische Prozesse

N. Rohde, hier. 

Companies under strain from GDPR requests

FT, here. 

How regulators can prevent excessive concentration online

The Economist, here and here.

Can Technology Be Stopped?

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here. 

Oracle to locate European fintech hub in Brussels

FinExtra, here. 

Before “After Consumer Welfare” -- A Response To Professor Wu

D. Melamed, N. Petit, here. 

Line to launch cryptocurrency exchange in Singapore

FT, here. 

The first "known" financial technology

Morgan Museum, NYC

(Small) Variations on a Theme: This blog's author Lund Presentation on "FinTech, TechFin, Competitive Markets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?", here. 

Tommaso Valletti: “Gigantes tecnológicas devem ser mais investigadas”

Jornal Economico, aqui.

Concentrations: la Commission ouvre une enquête approfondie sur le projet d'acquisition de l'activité nylon de Solvay par BASF

Ce, ici.

Künstliche Intelligenz: Bundestag-Enquete soll Risiken und Chancen von KI ausloten

Heise.de, hier.

Strategic Review of Retail Banking Business Models

FCA, here.

The state of the Internet in France

Arcep, here.

Commerzbank ist offen für Apple – „Google Pay ist für uns nur der Anfang“

Handelsblatt, here.

Deceived by Design

Norwegian consumer protection agency, here.

Let’s make private data into a public good

M. Mazzucato, here.

Experian secures FCA accreditation to supply Open Banking and PSD2 services

FinExtra, here.

Amazon, the Brand Buster

NYTimes, here.

Der Marktmachttransfer bei digitalen Plattformen: zur Anwendung von Art 102 AEUV auf mehrseitige Märkte in der Internetökonomie

S. Holzweber, hier.

Data-Driven Mergers under EU Competition Law

A. Chirita, here.

EU Competition Law Enforcement vis-à-vis Exploitative Conducts in the Data Economy: Exploring the Terra Incognita

M. Botta and K. Wiedemann, here.

Erster DSGVO-Bescheid: Zugang zu alten Bankdaten muss gratis sein

Der Standard, hier.

FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra at the EU Digital Clearing House

FinTech,TechFin, Competitive Markets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

S. Vezzoso (this blog’s author), presentation here. Please email me if you have any comment.

On The Future Of A PayPal-Owned Hyperwallet

Pymnts, here.