How ZTE helps Venezuela create China-style social control

Reuters, here.

Privacy advocates sound the alarm after Google grabs DeepMind UK health app

The Verge, here. 

PFM app Fintonic to fund interest-free deferred payments at Amazon.es

FinExtra, here. 

Allergan Loses Appeal Over Validity of Restasis Patents

Bloomberg, here. 

COMPETITION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

R Street, here. 

Free flow of data in the EU – a pathway into the cloud

R. Viola, here. 

Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move

The Guardian, here. 

FTC Secures Partial Victory Requiring SEP Holder to License to All Comers in Antitrust Case (Qualcomm)

McDermott Will & Emery, here. 

Market Study on the Impact on Competition of Technological Innovation in The Financial Sector (Fintech)

CNMC, here. 

IP for the Next Generation of Technology

Conference, video here. 

Consumer Choice and Fair Competition on the Digital Single Market in the Areas of Air Transportation and Accommodation

EP, Study here. 

Chrome oder Safari: Welcher Browser schützt unsere Daten?

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid.

T. Wu, here. 

Google, Facebook, and Amazon benefit from an outdated definition of “monopoly”

Quartz, here. 

DPIA DIAGNOSTIC DATA IN MICROSOFT OFFICE PROPLUS

Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Security for the benefit of SLM Rijk, here.  

The curse of bigness

Tim Wu, video here. 

Google retreats on controversial 'fake' price comparison site scheme

SkyNews, here. 

The Potential Unintended Consequences of Article 13

YouTube, here. 

Facebook Failed to Police How Its Partners Handled User Data

NYTimes, here. 

CADE; Fintech et al. public hearing

Video aqui.

Who Has the Copyright Over My Cheese?

Brillat-Savarin: Art

NYTimes, here.
CJEU Judgment here. 

How to Regulate Tech Platforms

The American Prospect, here. 

London’s transport regulator looks to startups to help fix urban mobility

TechCrunch, here. 

Apple/Shazam

EC, CASE M.8788, here. 

The law that lets Europeans take back their data from big tech companies

CBSnews, here and video here (from 02:06 - 15:00).

Sustainable and Unchallenged Algorithmic Tacit Collusion

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

„Wir müssen Daten, den Rohstoff für Innovation, breiter streuen“

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Future proofing your bank? Digital transformation and regulatory reform in the financial sector

O. Rehn, here. See also here.

Artificial intelligence and intellectual property: an interview with Francis Gurry

WIPO, here.

Antitrust: Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

EC, here. 

La comisaria de Competencia alerta de que el IAJD crea "diferencias" en la competitividad de los bancos españoles respecto a los europeos

Expansión, aquì.

Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies

AdExchanger, here. 

Competition Policy Reform in Europe and Germany – Institutional Change in the Light of Digitization

O. Budzinski, A. Stöhr, here. 

Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

Motherboard, here. 

Opinions by European Copyright Society in CJEU Cordoba and Cofemel cases

ECS, here and here. 

Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso

The Verge, here. 

Changes coming to Google News to help publishers ‘find their sites’

Search Engine Land, here. 

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses von Karstadt und Kaufhof

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

The Economics behind Multi-Sided Markets

J. Crémer. here. 

Distributed Ledgers: what is so interesting about them?

G. Danezis, here.

Three Moral Economies of Data

American Interest, here. 

Facebook says, yes, Portal does track your calls, but it really isn't for snooping

USA Today, here.

Amazon lauches Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs

TechCrunch, here.

Résolution sur la propriété sur les données personnelles

AFAPDP, ici.

EC seeks feedback on commitments offered by Disney in pay-TV investigation

EC, here.

Applications mobiles : mises en demeure pour absence de consentement au traitement de données de géolocalisation à des fins de ciblage publicitaire

CNIL, ici.

Policy position on car connectivity

FIA1, here.

Urheberrecht: Ärger im EU-Parlament über verwässerten Schutz für Künstler

Netzpolitik, hier. 

China To Increase Regulation Of Financial Holding Companies

Pymts, here. 

Commission clears the creation of six joint ventures by Daimler and BMW, subject to conditions

EC, here. 

Frank Pasquale: How To Regulate Google, Facebook and Credit Scoring?

F. Pasquale, Video here. 

Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse

The Guardian, here. 

EU’s proposed link tax would [still] harm Creative Commons licensors

Creative Commons, here. 

Qualcomm Dealt Setback in FTC Case Alleging Monopoly Abuse

Bloomberg, here. 

On inferred data

Video, 94:40-98:00.

Building a fairer digital world

M. Vestager, here. Video here. 

Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market

W. Wen, F. Zhu, here. 

Big Tech Sets Up a ‘Kill Zone’ for Industry Upstarts

Bloomberg, here. 

Flickr says it won’t delete Creative Commons photos

Flickr, here. 

Solutions for a responsible use of the blockchain in the context of personal data

CNIL, here. 

Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please

Politico, here. 

Android developers can now force users to update their apps

TechCrunch, here. 

YouTube-Stars verbreiten gerade massenhaft Panik ums 'Ende von YouTube'

Motherboard, hier, 

Qualcomm must license technology to its rivals, U.S. court rules

Reuters, here. 

MAPPING REGULATORY PROPOSALS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EUROPE

AccessNow, here. 

Our Approach to Competition

FCA, here. 

Smartphone Privacy: How Your Smartphone Tracks Your Entire Life

ElcomSoft, here. 

Schwedischer ISP blockt Elsevier nach Blockieraufforderung

Golem.de, hier. 

Mastercard Protests Payments ‘Nationalism’ In India

Pymnts, here. 

COFECE investiga posibles barreras a la competencia y/o presencia de insumos esenciales en el sistema de pagos con tarjeta

COFEDE, aquì.

GitHub is now officially a part of Microsoft

ArsTechnica, here. 

Commission approves acquisition of sole control over EMI Music Publishing by Sony

EC, here. 

THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION FIVE MONTHS ON

K. Lenaerts, Video here (from 15:55:40).

Platforms and the Sharing Economy

K. Stanoevska-Slabeva, here.

Copyright Office introduces proposal to give consumers right to hack electronics for repairs

The Hill, here. 

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

The Atlantic, here. 

Who owns this AI-generated painting?

TechnoLlama, here. 

Richemont s'allie à Alibaba pour doper ses ventes en ligne en Chine

Les Echos, ici.

Financial Technology: Opportunities and Challenges to Law and Regulation

P. Hodge, here. 

Researchers complain to Brussels over ‘dominant position’ of RELX Group in scientific publishing

ScienceBusiness.net, here. 

Cryptoassets Taskforce: final report

HM Treasury, FCA, Bank of England, here. 

GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz

The Verge, here. 

AI and the Global Economy

Bank of England, here.

Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring

Gutachten des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen, hier. 

„Volkswagen hat betrogen und schuldet Schadenersatz“

FAZ, hier. 

Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data

The Register, here. 

Vestager on the intersection of data and competition

iapp, here. 

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2017/2018

A. Amelio et al., here. 

Essential Principles for the Design of Antitrust Analysis for Multisided Platforms

D. Evans, here. 

Federal Circuit: Conference Distribution Still a Printed Publication even if No PHOSITA Attend

Patentlyo, here. 

Dish-HBO Standoff Shows How Trump's Justice Dept. Choked in the AT&T Merger Fight

The Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Competition, Market Power and Third-Party Tracking

A. Ezrachi, V. Robertson, here. 

WHY THE GOOGLE WALKOUT COULD BE A TURNING POINT FOR TECH

Vanity Fair, here.

In FTC Hearings, a Few Bright Spots Amid a Pro-Monopoly Status Quo

ILSR, here.

Goldman Sachs has asked one of its most prominent tech bankers to help infuse itself with that same tech

Recode, here. 

ComparetheMarket home insurance deals could deny people better prices

CMA, here. 

Apple Pay in Deutschland: Apple nennt Banken und Geschäfte

Heise.de, hier.

Our car-free future will be blocked by Comcast tactics

Transit, here. 

Soft ethics, the governance of the digital and the General Data Protection Regulation

L. Floridi, here. 

Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line

EFF, here.