German firm fined millions in 'sausage cartel' case

DW, here, 

US: Feds to argue at SCOTUS Apple App Store case

CPI, here. 

German antitrust watchdog eyes steps against Facebook this year

Reuters, here. 

Amazon führt Kreditkarte für Prime-Kunden in Deutschland ein

Heise.de, hier. 

Australian regulator to probe foreign exchange services fees

FT, here.

What a few AU dollars well spent (by the Goverment) can do...

IT-Verband reicht Kartellbeschwerde gegen SAP ein

WiWo, hier. 

Another Facebook Security Breach

ENISA, here.

Berners-Lee: You Should Control Your Data, Not Internet Giants

PCMag, here. 

The Platform Economy - Strategies, Governance, and Business Models

D. Moser, here. 

How Facebook could screw up Instagram

Recode, here. 

Facebook is weaponizing security to shield its erosion of privacy

TechCrunch, here. 

SHAPING COMPETITION POLICY IN THE ERA OF DIGITALISATION

BEUC, here. 

Behavioural study on advertising and marketing practices in social media

EC, Report here; Annexes here. 

Uber startet (wieder) in Düsseldorf

FAZ, hier. 

California just passed its net neutrality law. The DOJ is already suing

CNN Tech, here. 

Watchdog to probe £4bn rip-off of loyal consumers

FT, here. 

SPOTIFY IS ASKING FAMILY-PLAN USERS FOR GPS DATA TO PROVE THEY LIVE AT THE SAME ADDRESS

Quartzy,here. 

Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road

Bloomberg, here. 

Now we form not only the next economy, but also the next society

Wired, here. Very nice interview.

One Small Step for the Web...

T. Berners-Lee, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web

Fast Company, here. 

The Commission’s Amazon probe: overcoming the antitrust paradox

F. Bostoen, here. 

Taking Antitrust Away from the Courts

G. Sitaraman, here. 

On Google's 20th birthday, here's a reminder of how dominant it's become

CNBC, here. 

Why should anybody trust Facebook with their personal data? Really, tell me, why?

Recode, here. 

Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads

TechCrunch, here.

Angelo’s “very early days” take on CADE’s Fintech investigation

Trento University Student, Presentation here.

Big Tech’s Purchases of Startups Under Microscope, FTC Chief Says

Big Law Business, here.

Android Phones are 10: For once, Google won fair and square

The Register, here.

Petrobras to pay $853m to resolve bribery charges in the US

FT, here.

How Do Hub-and-Spoke Cartels Operate? Lessons from Nine Case Studies

J. Harrington, here.

Open Government Data Report

OECD, here.

Competition Bureau to investigate Ticketmaster after CBC News/Toronto Star scalper investigatio

CBC, here.

European countries join Blockchain Partnership

DSM, here.

Italy joined today.

AI Strategies

T. Dutton, here. 

El retraso de la ley de pagos electrónicos en España provoca la fuga de las fintech a Irlanda

VozPopuli, aquì

Observatory on the Online Platform Economy Launched

Here.
No website yet?

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

Gizmodo, here. 

America’s Courts Can’t Ignore the World

The Atlantic, here.

Warning! Bias alert, here. 

The case for publicly enforced online rights

E. Morozov, here. 

Platforms, ad industry unveil self-regulatory code to fight online disinformation

IAPP, here. 

Supreme Court upholds validity of Aadhaar, BJP calls it a historic judgement

Scroll-in, here. Ruling here. 

High time for rhyme and reason

P. Marsden, here. 

A bit "banalization of hipster," IMHO, but I can totally subscribe to this one:

and I'm also a bit of an"open movement" devotee myself:

Google announces an opt-out feature to ‘forced login’ on Chrome coming in mid-Oct

TechCrunch, here. 

Twitter’s approach to privacy

D. Kieran, here.

Amazon’s Approach to Privacy

Andrew DeVore, here.

Vendita biglietti per i concerti di musica dal vivo: avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Ticketone

A523, Provvedimento qui. 

Margrethe Vestager at Bloomberg Global Business Forum 2018

Video here, here.

Australian agency claims blockchain breakthrough

FinExtra, here. 

Regulator calls in Paypal's $2.2bn iZettle merger on day it completes

Cityam.com, here.

See CMA, here.

Cartel in the smart card chip market: Philips’ appeal dismissed and Infineon’s fine needs a second look

Judgments in Cases C-98/17 P Koninklijke Philips NV and Philips France v Commission and C-99/17 P Infineon Technologies AG v Commission, Press Release here.

The Effective Competition Standard: A New Standard for Antitrust

M. Steinbaum, M. Stucke, here. 

Exhaustion of intellectual property rights if there’s no Brexit deal

Gov.UK, here. 

UK Competition Appeal Tribunal Confirms Ban on Online Sales Is Inherently Restrictive of Competition

Cooley, here. 

Trust in blockchain based decentralized data infrastructures

B. Bodó et al., here. 

Nudge Turns 10: A Q&A With Cass Sunstein

Behavioral Scientist, here. 

ICO consults on privacy “regulatory sandbox”

Covington, here. 

Salesforce, AWS expand partnership with secure data sharing between platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

Public Consultation on Digital Ethics: Summary of outcomes

EDPS, here. 

European tech companies call on EU to toughen regulations

FT, here. 

John Oliver explains how Facebook is wreaking havoc overseas

Vox, here. 

The Alphabet Soup of Regulators in the Crypto Space Just Added a Few More Letters

Texas Lawyer, here. 

Intelligence artificielle : les banques françaises tâtonnent encore

La Tribune, ici. 

Analysing Apple Pay Transactions

Elcomsoft, here. 

Have ‘Big Tech’ Platforms Got Too Much Power?

S. King, here. 

Data, Innovation and Transatlantic Competition in Finance: The Case of the Access to Account Rule

G. Colangelo, O. Borgogno, here. 

The uncertain future for banking and regulation

S. King, here. 

Amazon Is Invading Your Home With Micro-Convenience

The Atlantic, here. 

Big Tech is overselling AI as the solution to online extremism

The Conversation, here. 

Google’s Forced Sign-in to Chrome Raises Privacy Red Flags

ThreatPost.com, here. See also here. 

STRATEGY ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES

UN Secretary General, here. 

How Platform Strategies Continue to Create Value

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

AB InBev faces EU antitrust fine in Belgian beer case - sources

Reuters, here. 

Apple completes acquisition of Shazam, will remove ads from free version

Android Police, here. 

The Cryptocurrency Market

Source: @OxfordCompEcon

Why Instagram’s founders are leaving: dwindling independence from Facebook

TechCrunch, here. 

Drivers for Uber, Lyft are earning less than half of what they did four years ago, study finds

Market Watch, here. 

Helping the digital economy keep its promises

M. Vestager, here. 

Radical Markets versus Sensible Politics

Radical Markets, here. 

Bank customers increasingly open to big tech alternatives

FinExtra, here. 

The Ring is the smartphone

HT @flysanityfly

U.S. way behind the curve on open banking

American Banker, here. 

More on Chrome updates and headers

Unsearcher, here. 

Scott Galloway’s provocative predictions on Amazon, Walmart and the future of retail

Recode, here. 

Blockchain: Premiers éléments d’analyse

CNIL, ici. 

The Challenge of Digital Markets: First, Let Us Not Forget the Lessons Learnt Over the Years

P. Ibáñez Colomo, G. De Stefano, here. 

The next antitrust standoff — Big Tech’s use of data

Politico.eu, here. 

Grab-Uber Merger: CCCS Imposes Directions on Parties to Restore Market Contestability and Penalties to Deter Anti-Competitive Mergers

CCCS, here.

Singapore competition watchdog fines Uber and Grab $9.5m

FT, here. 

Technology is no longer simply an industry, it is a part of every industry

R. Slaughter, here.

Why the government must help shape the future of AI

Brookings, here.

Advantage China in the race to control AI?

FT, here.

The White House is considering an antitrust investigation into 'online platform bias' at Google and Facebook — read the leaked document here

Business Insider, here. See also here.

The Welfare Effects of Information

C. Sunstein, here.

Fifa transfer algorithm is 'ridiculous', says Premier League chief

The Telegraph, here.

Commission opens formal investigation into possible collusion between BMW, Daimler and the VW group on clean emission technology

EC, here.

Building smart transport with trust and confidence

M. Vestager, here.

E-mail: Google CEO denies bias in search results

Axios, here.

Work kicks-off to examine digital competition in UK

Gov.UK, here.

Brazil antitrust watchdog probes banks in cryptocurrency trade

Reuters, here. Proceedings here.