Ansip: "La fragmentación del mercado digital es un rompecabezas malo"

Cadenaser, aquì.

FTC Displays Its Anti-Innovation Folly

Investors.com, here. 

“It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”

Pro-Market, here. 

Major Consulting Firm McKinsey Finds Little Evidence of Practical Blockchain Use Cases

CoinTelegraph, here. 

WILL REDIGI ASK THE SUPREME COURT TO WEIGH IN ON THE RESALE OF “USED” DIGITAL MUSIC FILES?

All Rights Reserved, here. 

NOWCASTING PRIVATE CONSUMPTION: TRADITIONAL INDICATORS, UNCERTAINTY MEASURES, CREDIT CARDS AND SOME INTERNET DATA

Banco de EspaÑa, here. 

Google gets payments licence in Ireland

FinExtra, here. 

Understanding the Unplanned Internet - How Ad Tech is Broken By Design

A. Zucker-Scharff, Video here. 

Online Advertisers Embrace Blockchain to Fight Fraud

Bloomberg, here. 

Structural presumption in U.S. merger control policy would strengthen modern antitrust enforcement

J. Kwoka, here. 

The Day Antitrust Died?: Episode 1, Frederic M. Scherer

Ipse Dixit podcast here. 

Senators aim to give internet companies doctor-like duties to protect our data

TechCrunch, here. 

Consumer data right: Rules outline

ACCC, here. 

Options to maintain a competitive digital economy

ESB, here (Google translate), original here. 

Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say

Bloomberg, here. 

The Law and Economics of Apple Inc. v. Pepper

Technology Policy Institute, here. 

Contre le pouvoir des plateformes, établir une portabilité sociale des données

S.I.Lex, here. 

Competitive Enhancement involving Digital Platformers: Japanese authorities

White & Case, here. And here.

The New ECN+ Directive: Towards an Even More Integrated Antitrust Enforcement in the EU

Arnold & Porter, here. 

WHY IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE AMAZON'S LONG REACH

Wired, here. 

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

M. Read, here. 

2018 Code of conduct on internet quality of service

ARCEP, here. 

Google ofrecerá servicios bancarios: por una competencia financiera real y justa

El Economista, aquì.

Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study

ArsTechnica, here. 

AncestryDNA ist in Deutschland - Und wo ist der Datenschutz?

T. Weichert, hier. 

AutomatedPricingAlgorithmsandCollusion:ABraveNewWorldorOldWineinNewBottles?

S. Li, C. Xie, here. 

How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook - Report

Privacy International, here. 

How to Fix America's Monopoly Problem

L. Khan, here. 

The U.S. Needs Conglomerate Merger Legislation

R. Lande, here. 

Infectious healthcare waste disposal sector in Corsica: excessive prices

Autorité de la concurrence, here. 

Regulating the disrupters

J. Tirole, here. 

Banken sind Marktführer; aber welche Chance haben sie im Zahlungsverkehr gegen Apple, Google und PayPal?

IT-Finanzmagazin.de, hier. 

BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH COULD BECOME NETFLIX’S SECRET MARKETING WEAPON

The Verge, here. 

Thou shalt not sample… without permission!

J. Quintais, B. Jütte, here. 

Microsoft is privately testing 'Bali,' a way to give users control of data collected about them

ZDNet, here. 

What They Are Saying: Experts Continue To Point Out Flaws In EC’s Android Decision

Springboard, here. 

Perils of Surveillance capitalism

S. Zuboff, Video here. 

The Competitive Landscape of AI Startups

HBR, here. 

Qualcomm-FTC lawsuit: Everything you need to know

Cnet, here.

A Real Remedy the FTC Should Demand of Facebook

Public Knowledge, here. 

Bayer/Monsanto: Summary of the Decision (and the whole 946 pp.)

Here. and the whole Decision here.

Martha Lane Fox Interviews our beloved Commissioner

BBC, Podcast (from 17:00), here.

THE GENERAL COURT UPHOLDS THE COMMISSION’S DECISION TO MAKE PARAMOUNT’S COMMITMENTS IN THE PAY-TV CASE BINDING

Shearman & Sterling, here. 

Bayer/Monsanto - protecting innovation and product competition in seeds, traits and pesticides

EC Merger Brief, here (p. 6 ff.).

Bundesgerichtshof: Museen dürfen gemeinfreie Bilder wegsperren

Heise.de, hier. 

Rather unusual open letter from four national competition authorities to the European Commission

Letter here. 

EU Chief Economist on the Dow/Dupont merger

Video here. 

Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, and Sky in pay-TV investigation

EC, here. 

Comparative approaches of the United States and the European Union to the monopoly/abuse of dominance problem

E. Fox, here. 

Competition Policy in the European Union and the United States: The Treatment of Dominant Firms

B. Kovacic, here. 

Prime and Punishment

The Verge, here. 

Why US Antitrust Law Should Not Emulate European Competition Policy

G. Manne, here. 

AG Racine Sues Facebook for Failing to Protect Millions of Users' Data

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, here.
Complaint here. 

Travel agents seek EU antitrust probe into Lufthansa pricing

Reuters, here. 

Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much

Gizmodo, here. 

Google Keeps Yelp, Consumer Watchdog Out of EU Court Appeal

Bloomberg, here. The Order here.

The Web (in this part of the world?) now belongs to Google, and that should worry us

ArsTechnica, here.
And Google says it was just a bug, here. 

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

NYTimes, here. 

CMA tackles loyalty penalty charges

CMA, here. 

A Painting Given to Eric Clapton Cannot be Used on Album Cover Rules French Supreme Court

The 1709 Blog, here. 

Vorwurf an Google: Microsoft Edge mit unfairen Mitteln verdrängt

Heise.de, hier and here and here. 

AG Bobek opinion on embedded plugins

EUCJ, here (and here)

The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency

New Knowledge, Whitepaper here; slide deck here.

Google still claimed to be blocking search rivals on Android, despite Europe’s antitrust action

TechCrunch, here. 

UK watchdog says Big Tech pose biggest threat to banks

Reuters, here. 

Structuralist Innovation: A Shaky Legal Presumption in Need of an Overhaul

D. Auer, here. 

YES, BIG PLATFORMS COULD CHANGE THEIR BUSINESS MODELS

Wired, here. 

Warren bill would get feds into generic drug manufacturing

Politico, here. 

GOOGLE ANDROID: RECORD-BREAKING FINE ON ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES UNDER ARTICLE 102 TFEU

A. Chirita, here. 

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S ANDROID DECISION AND BROADER LESSONS FOR ARTICLE 102 ENFORCEMENT

N. Banasevic, here. 

AMAZON AND THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

S. Vezzoso (this blog's author), here. 

A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S GOOGLE ANDROID DECISION

P. Akmar, here. 

WITH UNCERTAIN DAMAGE THEORY COME UNPREDICTABLE EFFECTS OF REMEDIES: “LIBRES PROPOS” ON THE ANDROID CASE

F. Marty, J. Pillot, here. 

Google Android Antitrust: Dominance Pivots and a Business Model Clash in Brussels

R. Picker, here. 

DRAFT ETHICS GUIDELINES FOR TRUSTWORTHY AI

EC's HIGH-LEVEL EXPERT GROUP ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, here. 

THE IP RIGHTS EXEMPTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION LAW RULES TO BE REPEALED

Clifford Chance, here. 

Commission approves plan by France, Germany, Italy and the UK to give €1.75 billion public support to joint research and innovation project in microelectronics

EC, here.
Statement here.

Trento also involved: Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

Mercedes-Benz customers benefit from new data services

Daimler, here. 

CMA proposes reforms to improve competition in audit sector

CMA, here. 

Modernisation of EU consumer protection rules: A new deal for consumers

EP ThinkTank, Briefing here.

The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018

P. Howard, B. Ganesh, D. Liotsiou, J. Kelly & C. François, here.

Strategic Review of Retail Banking Business Models

FCA, Final Report, here; Annexes here. 

COMCO Secretariat agrees with Apple about a TWINT-friendly solution

WEKO, here. 

GOOGLE’S SECRET CHINA PROJECT “EFFECTIVELY ENDED” AFTER INTERNAL CONFRONTATION

The Intercept, here. 

The folly of trolleys: Ethical challenges and autonomous vehicles

Brookings, here. 

Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line

WSJ, here. 

The End of the Ad-Supported Web - What if we got the business model of the web wrong?

Unlock, here. 

Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation: Contributions Received

EC, here.
All of them in one single, searchable pdf file, here (930 pp.). You're welcome.

Commission fines BEH Group € 77 million for blocking access to key natural gas infrastructure in Bulgaria

EC, here. 

Apple Pay und nun?

IT-Finanzmagazin.de, hier. 

Year in a Word: Techlash

FT, here. 

UK Fintech Revolut Receives EU Banking Licence through the central bank in Lithuania

Financemagnates.com, here. 

ApplePay ist digitale Wegelagerei

H. Bender, hier. 

Judge Koh rejects Qualcomm's bid to introduce new evidence related to Intel's success with Apple, Qualcomm's new 5G agreements

FOSS Patents, here. 

Commission fines Guess €40 million for anticompetitive agreements to block cross-border sales

EC, here. 

It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights

M. Tisné, here. 

Vom Datenschutz zur human-zentrierten Datenwirtschaft

M. Beyer-Katzenberger, hier (s. 71 ff.), hier.

DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT: RISKS AND SOLUTIONS IN THE ERA OF DISINFORMATION AND DATA MONOPOLY

House of Commons, Canada, Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, here. 

FTC Chair Simons Supports Federal Privacy Legislation, But Urges Caution

AdExchanger, here.

Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door

ACLUNC, here.