Platforms and the Rule of Reason: The American Express Case

H. Hovenkamp, here. 

EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites

FT, here. 

Antitrust and Silicon Valley: New Themes and Direction in Competition Law and Policy

Santa Clara University, Schedule and Video.

A Brief History of "Silicon Valley Antitrust" from 3:33:05.

Monopolization and the Problems of Dominance and Anti-competitive Performance from 5:41:50.

Facebook’s Biblically Bad Week

K. Swisher, here. 

Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers

Charged, here. 

Break up Google, says News Corp

InnovationAus.com, here. 

Apple Defends App Store Policies After Spotify’s Antitrust Complaint

NYTimes, here. 

Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions

K. Bryan, E. Hovenkamp, here. 

GDPR and AdTech with Brave

The Capitol Forum, here. 

Addressing Spotify’s claims

Apple, here. 

Investment platforms market study: Consultation Paper

FCA, here. 

Furman Review: Access to data is a new tool against monopoly

ODI, here.

Competition and Europe’s digital future

M. Vestager, here. 

How big data really fits into lending

FT, here. 

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

TechCrunch, here. 

UK competition regulator to examine digital advertising

FT, here. 

ACCC Preliminary report submissions: selected extracts and key points

NewsMediaWorks, here. 

Competition policy must change to help startups fight ‘winner takes all’ platforms, says UK report

TechCrunch, here. 

Spotify files EU antitrust complaint against Apple

Reuters, here.
See also here.

CMA welcomes Furman Review recommendations

CMA, here.
Furman Review here. 

Amazon, MFNs, and Second-Best Antitrust

R. Woodcock, here. 

Why regulation needs an overhaul

Nesta, here. 

Calling on Apple and Google to improve information on personal data in their app stores

Forbrukertilsynet, here. 

Google Gets Serious On Travel Bookings

AdExchanger, here. 

WILL DELIVEROO AND UBER BE CAPTURED BY THE PROPOSED EU PLATFORM REGULATION? YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT…

P. van Cleynenbreugel, here. 

Amazon to end price practice critics said could violate antitrust law

Axios, here. 

Digital Conglomerates and EU Competition Policy

Cerre.eu, here. 

HEARING ON “LOWERING THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: REDUCING BARRIERS TO MARKET COMPETITION”

Video, here. 

Technology vs. trust: Why this Wharton professor thinks blockchain’s time is yet to come

The Inquirer, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model

The Economist, here. 

Four possible loopholes in the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA)

Brave, here. 

Hearing on Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets

Video here. 

Since when is Apple owning the App Store a problem?

J. Gans, here. 

Google Search Dominance Has Businesses Paying for Their Name

Bloomberg, here. 

Beware of the Update Uproar (bit more than one week)

Judge Opens the Door to More Compensation for College Athletes

NYTimes, here.

Regulating in a digital world

House of Lords, Oral and Written Evidence here ; Report here.
Yep, came out on a Saturday.

OSS AND FRAND: COMPLEMENTARY MODELS FOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

V. Lindberg, here. 

When breaking up makes no sense

J. Gans, here. 

Here’s how we can break up Big Tech

E. Warren, here. 

This could be the beginning of the end for Facebook’s social network

Recode, here. 

Zuckerberg’s new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up

MIT Technology Review, here. 

FCO Facebook Quadriptych

V. Robertson, A. Burnside, D. Auer, R. Nazzini, here. 

Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA

TechCrunch, here. 

12 women shaping AI

Nesta, here. 

The Servant Economy

The Atlantic, here. 

Data Trusts

K. O'Hara, here. 

‘The industry has to hit the reset button’: Advertisers’ annual gathering sees new solutions to old problems

DigiDay UK, here. 

SCALABILITY, INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF BLOCKCHAINS

The European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum, here. 

The Limits of Ethical A.I

J. Ito, Video here. 

What does the world look like to AI?

The Verge, here. 

EC accepts commitments by Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Sky on cross-border pay-TV services

EC Press Release, here. 

How and why consumers buy cryptoassets

A Report for the FCA, here. 

Trump’s Big Tech Bluster

Open Markets Institute, here. 

German fintech Raisin buys bank

FinExtra, here. 

The political economy of Facebook’s platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance

D. Nieborg, A. Helmond, here. 

The case against Amazon

Politico.eu, here. 

Facebook’s pivot to privacy has huge implications — if it’s real

The Verge, here. See also here.
Some more background, perhaps: here.

Mexican central bank in talks with Amazon about new mobile payments

Reuters, here. 

Just desserts: CADE fines company for exclusivity practices in ice cream market

ILO, here. 

Autokonzerne sahen Dieselkrise kommen – „Ohne Bescheißen werden wir es nicht schaffen“

Handelsblatt, hier. 

RPT-Indian central bank fines 19 lenders for non-compliance on SWIFT use

Reuters, here. 

Companies Falsely Labeled Products ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Their Financial Penalty? $0.

NYTimes, here. 

ACCESS TO CASH REVIEW

Here. 

False negatives' recalibration

D. Malamed, here. 

Binge-Bying and the Rest

J. Kwoka, here. 

COMESA Competition Commission Closes Investigation into Resale Price Maintenance in the Distribution Agreements between Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Proprietary Limited and its Distributors

COMESA, here. 

Who’s Really Winning the Direct Booking Wars Between Hotels and Online Travel Agencies?

Skift, here. 

Missing Link: KI - die Künstlichen Idioten des digitalen Kapitalismus

Heise.de, hier.

Autokonzerne suchen Heil in Koalitionen

StN.de, hier. 

The State of AI 2019: Divergence

MMC Ventures, here. 

El poder popular i la ciutat

F. Bria, Video here.

"Industriepolitik der Bundesregierung würde deutsche Exportunternehmen gefährden"

M. FRATZSCHER, T. DUSO, hier.

Platforms, American Express, and the Problem of Complexity in Antitrust

C. Sagers, here. 

Audizione della Commissaria europea per la Concorrenza, Margrethe Vestager

Documentazione per le Commissioni, qui.  

10 Ans Autorité de la concurrence: Félicitations!

"La" Conférence ici en direct

Global Data Privacy: The EU Way

P. Schwartz, here. 

Unfair Disruption

M. Lemley, M. McKenna, here. 

Exclusionary Conduct in Data-Driven Markets: Limitations of Data Sharing Remedy

V. Kathuria, J. Globocnik, here. 

Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

NYTimes, here. 

Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception

ArsTechnica, here. 

Google rejects ACCC's calls to have tougher scrutiny over Australian operations

ZDNet, here.
And the other submissions here. 

Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

J. Tirole, P. Rey, here. 

Does America Have a Monopoly Problem?: Examining Concentration and Competition in the US Economy

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 8:30 PM CET, Live broadcast here.

Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information

FastCompany, here. 

Amazon Strategy Teardown

CB Insights, here. 

The Role of Antitrust Law When Mergers Threaten Consumer Privacy

New America, here. 

When will Amazon launch its bank?

TheFinanser, here. 

The Making of the Fox News White House

The New Yorker, here. 

Senior Democrat suggests ‘Glass-Steagall’ law for tech companies

FT, here. 

NAOMI KLEIN AND SHOSHANA ZUBOFF ON THE RISE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM

The Intercept, here.

Les marchés bifaces saisis par le droit de la concurrence: Réflexions sur la décision Android de la Commission européenne

F. Marty, ici.

When Britain chose Europe

FT, here.

You can track everything’: the parents who digitise their babies’ lives

The Guardian, here.

Antitrust by Design – Kartellrechtliche Technik-Compliance für Algorithmen, Blockchain und Plattformen?

S. Louven, hier.

What alchemy and astrology can teach artificial intelligence researchers

B. Shneiderman, here.

China bans 23m from buying travel tickets as part of 'social credit' system

The Guardian, here.

Is DNA Left on Envelopes Fair Game for Testing?

The Atlantic, here.

Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us”

Democracy Now, Video here. 

The Fintech Revolution Is Here. Can It Help Build A Better Economy?

Forbes, here.