Ensure Hyperlinking Will Not Infringe Copyright Law: Advocate General Wathelet’s Opinion On Gs Media

Project-disco.org, here. 

Some Online Bargains May Only Look Like One

NYTimes, here. 

How Australian business views the sharing economy

NAB, here. 

Deterrence in EU merger policy

J. Clougherty , T. Duso, J. Seldeslachts, here. 

Perchas iguales, wifi o cafetera… así son las restricciones a la vivienda turística

CNMC, aquì. 

Argentine capital's gov't says Uber illegal, will be penalized

Latino.FoxNews, here. 

Personal Data Services Promise User Privacy

Networkcomputing, here. 

Opinion 01/2016 on the EU – U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision

WP29, here. 

Antworten auf die Fragen für das Fachgespräch „Kartellrecht und Plattformen“

Bundeskartellamt, hier.
J. Haucap, hier.

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv),  Hier.
A.Baums, hier.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

Brisant, Sendung hier. 

Former FTC Commissioner: UFC investigations, antitrust lawsuit ‘ultimately about consumers’

Bloodyelbow.com, here. 

Sorry, but Uber Isn’t Conspiring to Fix Ridesharing Prices

J. Meyer, R. Meyer, here. 

The era of AI-human hybrid intelligence

TechCrunch, here. 

Bloops and Blips Ahead for Bots

Recode.net, here. 

Not So Fast! Qualcomm Cannot Use “Curious Quirk” of U.S. Discovery Law In Korean Antitrust Proceeding

Proskauer, here.

FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone

WashingtonPost, here. 

A global guide to antitrust/competition law—what, why, for whom?

D. Gerber, here. 

The Dynamic Structure or Regulatory Innovation Networks

M. Jennejohn, here. 

Sponge

A. Ezrachi, here. 

Energy market investigation: Consultation response

Centre for Competition Policy, here. 

Oxford professor calls for European ethical codes on patient data

TheGuardian, here. 

Uber pone techo al costo de su servicio en la Ciudad de México

Expansion, aquì.

Google.org ’s giving $20 million to engineer a better world for the disabled

Wired, here. 

Freigabe des Zusammenschlusses von Online-Dating-Plattformen

Bundeskartellamt, Fallbericht hier. 

Finland, the land of vertical search engines

InfoWorld, here. 

In Bots We Trust?

Slate.com, here. 

What Is Cognitive Economics? Understanding the World Through New Types of Data

Inverse, here. 

Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems

Phys.org, here. 

BMW Launches "Premium Airbnb For Cars"

TheDrive, here. 

Is Uber even part of the sharing economy?

Fastcoexist, here. 

Here's How Nike Became a Platform Business

M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, S. Choudary, here. 

Why Platform Disruption Is So Much Bigger than Product Disruption

J. Vasquez Sampere, here. 

Keeping pace with a changing environment: What this means for enforcers

A. Chrisholm, here. 

Uber is the victim of Judge Rakoff’s curiosity in antitrust case

Reuters, here.
Opinion and Order here.
Original Complaint here.

Deep Learning for Chatbots, Part 1 – Introduction

WildML, here. 

Quo Vadis FTC? (Endo Complaint)

D. Goldstein, R. Reznick, here. 

A bunch of big US websites say they're likely to support legal action against ad blockers

Businessinsider, here.

Leading government's 'data revolution'

UKauthority, here. 

Big data and competition: Facebook faces antitrust probe over privacy terms

Taylor Wessing, here. 

How to Spot a Monopolistic Search Engine

M. Luca, here. 

Vermarktungsmodell für die Vergabe der Bundesligarechte ab der Saison 2017/18 gebilligt

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Points de rencontre entre régulation concurrentielle & protection des données

B. Lasserre, Vidéo ici.

Pourquoi l’Autorité française ne se saisit-elle pas aussi de Facebook ?

B. Lasserre, Vidéo ici.

Bots, explained

Recode.net, here. 

Here’s why the music labels are furious at YouTube. Again.

Recode.net, here. 

What would it take to disrupt Facebook?

J. Gans, here. 

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence

T. Simonite, here. 

Why ad blocking, a form of digital self-defense, is not a net neutrality violation

Strand Consult, here. 

The Conspiracy of Algorithmic Price-Fixing

A. Rosenblat, here. 

New Decision in Georgia State University E-Reserves Case Released; 41 of 48 Claims of Infringement Found to Be Fair Uses

ARL Policy Notes, here. 

Tech Giants and Civic Power

M. Moore, here.

Updated Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines

Competition Bureau Canada, here. 

How Antitrust Law Could Reform College Football: Section 1 of the Sherman Act and the Hope for Tangible Change

M. Edelman, here. 

Uber CEO must face price-fixing lawsuit by passengers: U.S. judge

Reuters.com, here. 

Smart Homes and the Internet of Things

Atlantic Council, here. 

Shifting Perspectives: Redesigning Regulation For The Sharing Economy

MaRS Solution Lab, here. 

FTC Sues Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Others for Illegally Blocking Lower-Cost Generic Versions of the Branded Drugs Opana ER and Lidoderm

Press Release, here. 

The technology industry’s dirty secret: most products are frighteningly insecure

M. Kleppmann, here. 

Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results

B. Edelman, Z. Lai, here. 

Issues Paper On Foresight for Digital Development

UNCTAD, here. 

KLM now uses Facebook Messenger for boarding passes, flight info, and customer service

VentureBeat, here. 

Hollywood Deals in Spotlight as EU Builds Antitrust Film Case

Bloomberg, here. 

A Typology of Privacy

B.-J. Koops, B. Clayton Newell, T. Timan, I. Škorvánek, T. Chokrevski, M. Galič, here.

Patent licencing: CCI can look into cases if allegations of abuse of dominance are involved, says Delhi HC

Indianexpress.com, here.
Judgment here. 

EU Privacy Reg Data Portability May Affect Controllers

S. Gardner, here. 

LG Berlin: Amazon haftet für urheberrechtswidrige Bilder seiner Marketplace-Verkäufer

Dr-bahr.com, hier. 

Off-Topic: Scientists for EU Campaign – Written evidence

Data.parliament.uk, here. 

Why Microsoft just made a big bet on bots

The Verge, here.

(Interestingly, MS fought hard against the browser replacing the desktop OS as the new platform, as every antitrust scholar knows; now MS - not alone, though - is "on the other side" and pushing hard for the bot store to replace the app store. Reactions from the incumbents at risk of being displaced or general and rather peaceful transition towards the new largely AI-fueled paradigm?).

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype — and everywhere else

TechCrunch, here. 

This student put 50 million research articles online. And they’re free.

WashingtonPost, here. 

Microsoft CEO: ‘Bots are the new apps'

Mashable, here.

Clippy’s Back: The Future of Microsoft Is Chatbots

Bloomberg, here. 

Consumer Protection in E-commerce - OECD Recommendation

Here.

Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy

M. Van Alstyne, G. Parker, S. Choudary, here.

Monopolizing Water in a Tsunami: Finding Sensible Antitrust Rules for Big Data

D. Balto, M. Cameron Lane, here. 

How would Brexit affect EU patent protection?

TheGuardian, here. 

Vertical restraints: new evidence from a business survey

Accent and Oxera for the CMA, here.
See also the Summary note of the CMA roundtable on vertical restraints 16 January 2015, here.

"What vertical restraints are businesses using and what are their main motivations for doing so?"
Seriously, did they expect businesses to answer "for anti-competitive reasons"?

Blockchain: Spider or Starfish Effect?

R. French, here. 

Using Adblock Plus to block ads is legal, rules German court—for the fifth time

ArsTechnica, here. 

What is a Robot?

The Atlantic, here. 

Commitment Decisions in Antitrust Cases

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Fidelity Rebates

OECD Secretariat, here. 

In the wake of Apple v FBI, we need to address some uncomfortable truths

J. Powles, E. Chaparro, here. 

The Platform Revolution

Interview with G. Parker, Here.

Snapchat update targets rivals’ territory

FT, here. 

Facebook, Google, Amazon May Be Caught Up In Netflix Regulatory Flap

Investors.com, here. 

Whither Game Theory?

D. Fudenberg, D. Levine, here. 

Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition

TheEconomist, here. 

“Search disruption is coming!” and 9 other expert insights From LSA16

Searchengineland, here. 

Spontaneous Deregulation

B. Edelman, D. Geradin, here. 

AI progress fails to convince all investors

FT, here.

Is the world moving towards more or less competition in capital-intensive industries?

J. Levin, here.

Droit au déréférencement : sanction de 100.000 € à l’encontre de Google

CNIL, ici.

Network Effects Aren't Enough

A. Hagiu, S. Rothman, here. 

Big Data is Watching: Growing Digital Data Surveillance of Consumers by ISPs and Other Leading Video Providers

Center for Digital Democracy, here. 

Data protection through the lens of competition law: will Germany lead the way?

I. Graef and B. Van Alsenoy, here. 

Plateforme Le.taxi - Avis rendu au gouvernement

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Philadelphia Taxi Association files antitrust lawsuit versus Uber

PennRecord, here.

Meet the tech exec who wants the cloud to be Google’s moneymaker

Wired, here. 

Public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the 'panorama exception

EC, Here.

Encryption - A matter of human rights

Amnesty International, here.

Legislation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in Canada

 Parliament of Canada, here.

Google Now Card Offers Movie Piracy Advice

Torrentfreak, Here.

Platform regulation — ex-ante versus ex-post intervention: evolving our antitrust tools and practices to meet the challenges

A. Chisholm & N. Jung, Here.

Bußgelder im Sanitär-Kartell

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

CrowdSignals Aims to Create a Marketplace for Smartphone Sensor Data

NYTimes, here. 

Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong

TechCrunch, here. 

Kartellamt nimmt DFB ins Visier

FAZ, hier. 

My Take on FBI’s “Alternative” Method

J. Zdziarski, here. 

Energy market investigation - Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here (758 pages).

PCW: 357-391.

Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era

S. Dengler, J. Prüfer, here.

Regulierung von Digitalen Vermittlungsplattformen für Privatfahrer

vzbv, hier. 

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)

SearchEngineLand, here.

On newspapers and ebooks, the Justice Department's antitrust theory is obsolete

LATimes, here.

The Global Privacy Enforcement Network

Annual Report (2015), here. 

Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?

F. Pasquale, here. 

Taxi And Private Hire Car Licensing – Consultation on The Impact of Modern Technology

The Scottish Government, here. 

Lufthansa says other airlines will follow GDS surcharge move

Tnooz, here. 

How the FCC's Privacy Proposal Could Affect More Than ISPs

AdAge, here. 

Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2016

Recordings and Presentations here. 

Apple ‘privacy czars’ grapple with internal conflicts over user data

VentureBeat, here. 

La menace d’une saisie du code source des iPhone serait crédible

Numerama, ici. 

Google looks to big data to cut traffic and create new product

SiliconBeat, here. 

Why real-time search algorithm updates may be bad news

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Spotify inks “no copyright claim” royalty deal with music publishers

ArsTechnica, here. 

No, the On-Demand Economy Isn’t About to Implode

WIRED, here. 

The death of Instagram for brands

TechCrunch, here. 

Newsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really speaking for the readers?

NiemanLab, here. 

Renzi puts brakes on Italy taxi reform

FT, here. 

Geo-blocking practices in e-commerce

EC, here. 

EU-Kartellrechtsuntersuchung: Geoblocking grassiert im Netz

Heise.de, hier. 

Data Wars: The banks awaken

AFR, here. 

FTC Amicus Brief Urges Appeals Court to Correct Legal Errors in District Court’s Antitrust Analysis of Reverse-Payment Agreement

FTC, here.

Big Data, Small Competitive Advantage?

Medium, here.

HOTEL ONLINE BOOKING SECTOR: THE COMMITMENTS OF ‘BOOKING’ AND THE MOST FAVORED NATION CLAUSES. A CASE CONDUCTED IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONAL COMPETITION AUTHORITIES

G. Cipolla, here.

Adblocking: The End of Free?

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here.

Government response on Harper ‘effects-test’ recommendation

Competition Law, here.

Fees Fought in TV Tube Antitrust Settlement

Courthousenews, here.

Des Québécois « ubérisent » le conseil.

LesEchos, ici.

Et si le prix unique du livre était aboli ?

F. Lévêque, ici.

Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy: European Report 2016

EC, here

Sweden’s publishers are joining forces to simultaneously block ad-block users

Digiday, here.

Sci-Hub: research piracy and the public good

TimesHigherEducation, here.

Apples Doppelmoral

FAZ, hier..

Globalization is becoming more about data and it's changing the competitive landscape

S. Lund, J. Manyika, J. Bughin, here.

10 March 2016: Internet Independence Day, no less.

TheGuardian, here.

Russian court turns down Google appeal in anti-monopoly case

ChannelNewsAsia, here.

How Much Personal Data Do You Give Your ISP?

BigThink, here.

Avant le déluge: le travail invisible des données

J. Denis, ici.

Study of the Impact of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Measure on Smoking Prevalence in Australia

T. Chipty, here.

Yelp’s Head of EU Public Policy: Europe Strategy Depends on Google Antitrust Case

Streetfightmag, here.

The CMA’s Energy Market Provisional Remedies: Right Direction but Inadequate, and Missing an Important Trick

D. Deller, here.
Also here.

LG Düsseldorf: Like-Button und Social-Plugins sind rechtswidrig (FAQ zum Urteil)

T. Schwenke, hier. 

Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access to Consumer Data is Limited and Often Less than Access by Others

P. Swire, J. Hemmings, A. Kirkland, here. 

Google says 'not now, not ever' will it become an OTA

Travelweekly, here. 

Resultados preliminares del estudio sobre los nuevos modelos de prestación de servicios y la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquì.
Consulta pública aquì. 

UK and the EU: Benefits, Misconceptions and Alternatives

Lawyers-In for Britain, here.

Berichtsflut über Preisinsel Schweiz

NZZ.ch, hier. 

Strategia per il mercato unico digitale in Europa

G. Pitruzzella, here. 

Italy to adopt first "Sharing Economy Act" in Europe -- but does it share EU law principles?

R. Cohen, here.
See also here (in Italian)

Uber seems to offer better service in areas with more white people. That raises some tough questions

WashingtonPost, here. 

A vision for Market Research in an Information Age

CitizenMe, here. 

Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass

T. Griffin, here. 

Bitcoin and Diversity

Stratechery.com, here. 

The intersection of data protection and antitrust law - finally a spot on case in the EU

M. Hall, here.

Counterfeit crackdown: Microchips hidden in luxury heels & bags

TheMemo, here.
See also here.

Even the UNWTO is talking about the sharing economy

TNooz, here. 

Potential Antitrust Implications of MFN Clauses

J. McKeown, M. Meckstroth, here. 

It's Your Data: Empowering Broadband Consumers to Protect Privacy

T. Wheeler, here. 

Do stricter environmental policies hurt export competitiveness?

OECD, here. 

Competing fairly in business – why it matters to start-ups

CMA, here.

Yeah, sure, think Skoosh for instance.

A State-Powered Green Revolution

M. Mazzucato, here. 

German Regional Court: Consent necessary when implementing the Facebook Like-Button

C. Piltz, here. 

The evolution of advertising: a technology tipping point

Ctrl-shift.co.uk, here. 

Appfail:Threats to Consumers in Mobile Apps

Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

The New Mind Control

R. Epstein, here.

Cited article here. 

Opera integriert Adblocker

Heise.de, hier.

La donnée, nouveau carburant de l’économie

Lenouveleconomiste, Ici.

What Airbnb’s blockchain authentication proposal means for privacy online

TheStack, here.

CMA sets out energy market changes

CMA, here.

The inner workings of Digital Disruption

@PlatRevolution, here. 

Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns

Wired, here. 

Services de géolocalisation des VTC

Conseil d’État, ici. 

Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week

TechCrunch, here. 

Lonely Journey: From Economics to Law and Back

F. Jenny, Video here. 

Web Scale Analysis of Third-Party Tracking

T. Libert, Video, here.

Google’s New Mobile Tool Lets You Compare Destinations by Price

Skift.com, here. 

Facebook se lance dans la course aux droits sportifs

Numérama, ici. 

Data brokers and profiling in the Netherlands

F. Kreiken, here. 

Crowd-Based Capitalism? Empowering Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy

A. Sundararajan, here. 

The One-Way Mirror: Public attitudes to commercial access to health data

Ipsos Mori for the Wellcome Trust, here.

liqz-Studie beleuchtet die Gefahren von Tracking für die Privatsphäre

Mittelstand-nachrichten.de, hier. 

Competition: raising the anti

Lawgazette.co.uk, here. 

Google Search gets Destinations

VentureBeat, here.

Google Sides With Facebook Amid Data Dominance Probe

Bloomberg, here.

Brexit - Gaining or losing the competitive edge?

Allen & Overy, here.

Highlights from the Competition Bureau’s Workshop on Emerging Competition Issues

Competition Bureau Canada, here. 

Copyright, Competition, and the Digital Single Market

P. Ibanez Colomo, here, 

Google nimmt Anzeigen direkt auf seine Seite

FAZ, hier. 

Passenger rail services: competition policy project

CMA, here. 

ACLU Urges Feds To Adopt Privacy Rules For Broadband And Cable

FastCompany, here. 

Did Apple do a shady deal to get more movies/music in the Middle East?

VentureBeat, here. 

IAB Creates Guide for Publishers to Combat Ad Blocking

AdAge.com, here. 

Complaint regarding unfair contractual terms in the Terms of Use for the mobile application Tinder

 Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Does working at Google give you access to the data of users?

B. White, here.

(In the "good reasons" we trust).

Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) - the flipside of CRM

Diginomica, here. 

Instagram blocks links to Snapchat and Telegram

TheGuardian, here. 

"Facebook ist ein Monopolist"

FAZ, hier. 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues Seattle over Uber, Lyft ordinance

Reuters, here. 

Antitrust and 'Big Data': New Terrain for Inquiry?

S. Goldfein, J. Keyte, here. 

The Apparent Androidopoly Antitrust Case

S. Cleland, here. 

Bundeskartellamt eröffnet Verfahren gegen Facebook wegen Verdachts auf Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Living in a future Big Data world: can prosperity, freedom and fundamental rights be reconciled?

G. Buttarelli, here.

Adblock's business model

Adblockplus, here.

Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?

B. Love, C. Helmers, M. Eberhardt, here.

Robots in American Law

R. Calo,  here.

Apple Backdoor Case: A Code With A Viewpoint?

NYTimes,  here.

Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists

ArsTechnica, here.

Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

TechnologyReview,here.

Competition Challenges in the Consumer Internet Industry

CEP, here.

Mitigating the existing imbalance between data-rich and data-poor companies

G. Oettinger,  here.

Google’s AMP Is Speeding Up the Web By Changing How It Works

Wired, here. 

Bruxelles adresse ses critiques à l’encontre du projet de loi Lemaire

NextImpact, here.

Quick Take on Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Antitrust Law

A. Naik, Here.

Daten­schutz im Check: Viele Hintertüren bei Google, Netflix & Co

Stiftung Warentest, hier. 

CMA responses to consultations on the Digital Single Market (all in one place)

CMA, here. 

Landgericht Berlin: Urteil im Kartellrechtsstreit von Presseverlagen gegen Google (PM 14/2016)

Berlin.de, hier.

Sci-Hub: How Does It Work?

Scholarlykitchen, here.

Making communications work for everyone

Ofcom, here. 

The new new competition - How digital platforms change competitive strategy

M. Van Alstyne, S. Choudary, G. Parker, Presentation here. 

The right way—and wrong way—for cities to regulate Uber

Macleans.ca, here. 

Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web

Recode, here. 

Streetmap.EU Limited v Google

J. Morrison, here. 

Fed Up With Uber And Lyft, Drivers Plan To Launch Competing App

FastCompany, here. 

Business models in the Peer-to-peer economy

P. Belleflamme, Presentation here. 

Government must help end 'heartbreaking' Amazon dominance, former Number 10 adviser says

TheTelegraph, here.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

FAZ, hier.

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

TechCrunch, here. 

Why Authors Alliance Supports A Broader View Of Fair Use Than The Authors Guild

P. Samuelson, here. 

Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms

Bruegel, here. 

The making available right in the United States

Register of Copyrights, here. 

Western Union Questioned by EU in Money-Transfer Antitrust Probe

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Google Faces More EU Woes, Attorneys General Ask FTC To Revive Case In US

MarketingLand, here. 

The Montcalm Mystery: Comparison widgets on hotels' websites and Booking.com

TNooz, here. 

Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service

TechCrunch, here.

Meet the Fixers Collective: the geeks who are fixing iPhones for free

TheVerge, here.

What's Next?

C. Dixon, here.

Looking back and moving on

NewYorker, here.

Stack is the new Platform

labs.sogeti.com, here.

Why Is IBM Buying Ad Agencies?

Fool.com, here.

Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset

J. Poles, here.

New research shows UK online alternative finance market grew to £3.2 billion in 2015

Nesta, here.

Antitrust Experts Debate Apple’s Supreme Court Bid

PublishersWeekly, here.

The opportunities and ethics of big data

Royal Statistical Society, here. 

Streetmap v Google: lessons for pending Article 102 TFEU cases (including Google itself)

ChillingCompetition, here. 

PTO Weighs In on Digital First Sale

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here.

U.S.-EU Data Privacy: From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield

US Congressional Research Service, here.

Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position

Timesofindia, here.

Getting Around Section 230

E. Goldman, audio here; slides here. . 

How will acceding to the Marrakesh Treaty benefit Canadians?

Government of Canada, here. 

World’s cheapest Android smartphone goes on sale for just $3.67

ArsTechnica, here.

Netflix says going global has improved its personal recommendations

VentureBeat, here. 

Données personnelles : le virulent réquisitoire de la CNIL contre Facebook

Le Monde, ici.

A message to our customers regarding backdoors

Apple, here.

Linux and White House together to improve open source security

CIO.com, here. 

Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics

O. Malik, here. 

What if we don’t need advertising at all?

D. Searls, here.

AU: Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law

Submissions here.
ACCC here. 

Platforms, is there a need to regulate?

Digital4EU 2016, Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:15 – 17:25, webstream here..

Juno hasn’t even launched, but it’s already creeping me out with its data collection

Medium.com, here. 

Stealth Startup Juno Will Take On Uber By Treating Drivers Better

Forbes, here. 

Why does everybody hate competition so much?

C. Sagers, here. 

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Wired, here. 

It’s time to break the teeth-whitening monopoly

Washington Post, here.

European Union Competition Law in the Digital Era

M. Kadar, here. 

CCI rejects complaints of unfair practices against Ola, Uber

Moneycontrol, here.
Orders here and here.

So dynamisch sind die Preise im Netz

WISO, hier. 

The hidden traps in the Apple ebook case

R. Epstein, here.

"Prices will be the same"

S. Jobs, Video here.

A.I. and virtual reality may propel future of retail

Computerworld, here.

Before It 'Unlocks the Box,' The FCC Must Solve This Pricing Puzzle

Forbes, here. 

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence

Recode, here.

Kik Battles Facebook With Bots In The New Messaging Wars

Forbes, here.

‘Patent trolls’ on the prowl for ‘smart’ product providers

FT, here.

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

Fusion.net, here.

Asics zieht gegen Bundeskartellamt vor Gericht

Market-intern, hier.
 Fallbericht,  hier.
OLG Frankfurt Entscheidung hier.

FCC chairman talks set-top boxes, consumers' right to choose

Washington Post, Video here.

UK's Streetmap loses 'anticompetitive' search abuse case against Google

The Guardian, here.
Decision here.

Microsoft retreats from EU antitrust fight against Google (?)

ArsTechnica, here. 

74 OEMs pre-install MS apps and services on Android devices

BusinessInsider, here.

(OEMs/MS agreements anyone?)

Personal data in exchange for free services: an unhappy partnership?

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

The European Collaborative Economy Industry to the Presidency of the EU Council

Letter, here.

(Inspiring list of signatories).

Error 53 lawsuit

Here.

'Pay for delay' fined in the UK

CMA, here.

Facebook and the New Colonialism

The Atlantic, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Mydex supplementary evidence

Mydex, here. 

The Big Data Dilemma

UK Parliament, here.

Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist?

TechCrunch, here.

Digital Platforms: To Regulate or Not To Regulate?

A. Strowel, W. Vergote, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Uber supplementary evidence

Uber, here.

Apple in ACCC's sights over bricked iPhones

ITNews, here.

Thinking Inside the Box

Impactcentre.ca, here.

Who Will Own The Virtual Reality Interface?

TechCrunch, here. 

“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M

ArsTechnica, here.

The Case That Won’t Be Forgotten

J. Powles, here. 

Optimising romance

TheEconomist, here. 

Online review sites commit to improve practices

CMA, here.

La impugnación de normas como instrumento para eliminar barreras a la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquí

The Research Pirates of the Dark Web

The Atlantic, here.

Why Uber’s surge pricing is naive economics

S. King, here.

The internet of things: how your TV, car and toys could spy on you

TheGuardian, here.
Clapper's testimony here.

Google's self-driving systems legally qualify as a driver under US federal law

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, here.

Professions in an Era of Algorithmic Power

F. Pasquale, here.

License Compatibility and Relicensing

R. Stallman, here.

Disclosing the lowest prices for generics to allow comparison-shopping

NYTimes, here.

The open banking standard

ODI, here.

All the Places Personal Data Goes

News.harvard, here.

The phone call that saved safe harbor

Politico, here.

Paypal bans VPN and DNS services

Wired, here.

Schweres Gelände

SZ, hier.

The Great Data Race

Norwegian Data Protection Authority,  here.

After the sharing economy

Transmediale Panel, Audio here (from 01:32).

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here. 

Commercial Availability: The Poison Pill for Marrakesh Treaty Implementation

J. Fruchterman, here. 

Wie Google User für sich arbeiten lässt - unbewusst und unbezahlt

E. Morozov, here. 

The UK competition regime

National Audit Office, here. 

The adblocker dispute is going to become one of the fundamental battles on privacy

Zdnet.com, here. 

Data protection has gone global

G. Buttarelli, here. 

Facebook cripples chat encryption app that promised users extra privacy

TheNextWeb, here.

Developments in the Prescription Drug Market: Oversight.

M. Merritt, here. 

Living fully human lives online is all about taking control

Medium.com, here. 

AI is Trasforming Google Search

Wired.com, here. 

Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store

TheVerge, here. 

Using Antitrust Law to Challenge Turing's Daraprim Price Increase

M. Carrier, N. Levidow, A. Kesselheim, here. 

Drug Firms Expected to Defend Huge Price Increases in House Testimony

NYTimes, here. 

Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion

TechCrunch, here. 

How Age UK pocketed £6m bung from E.ON and pushed expensive power deals to OAPs

TheSun, here. 

Fertility Industry Group Settles Lawsuit Over Egg Donor Price Caps

Blogs.wsj, here. 

Privacy in the EU and US: A Debate between Max Schrems and Peter Swire

Audio here. 

Apple Ordered To Pay $625M To Patent Troll In FaceTime Lawsuit

TechCrunch, here. 

UK challenger bank Mondo releases API to let customers play with their own data

Finextra, here. 

Power to the people – is privacy the future of online marketing?

moreaboutadvertising, here.

Wait, Google's 'moon shots' cost how much??

CNet, here.

“EU US Privacy Shield” (Safe Harbor 1.1) “European Commission may be issuing a round-trip to Luxemburg

M. Schrems, here. 

EU Commission and United States agree on new framework for transatlantic data flows: EU-US Privacy Shield

Press Release, here.

Here It Comes: The Myanmar Competition Act

Allenovery, here. 

Competition and innovation

A. Crisholm, here, 

Gorgeous New 4-D Printing Process Makes More Than Just Eye Candy

Technologyreview.com, here. 

“Of data and men”: fundamental rights and freedoms in a world of big data

A. Rouvroy, here. 

Investigation into Tesco

Groceries Code Adjudicator, here. 

Don’t Panic. Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate

Berkman Center for Internet & Society, here.
Keys under doormats Report here. 

People are turning their smartphones into spying devices for just $5/month

Fusion.net, here. 

Winners & Losers in the Global App Economy

Caribou Digital, here. 

Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security

Open Effect, here. 

Monitoring the Digital Economy & Society 2016 - 2020

EC, here. 

Alphabet: Suchmaschine treibt das Geschäft

Heise.de, hier. 

Google Search Probe by U.S. Should Get New Look, Utah Says

Bloomberg, here. 

The Internet of Emotions: Putting the person back into personalization

Mashable, here. 

Mastering The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Designdiscontinuity.net, here. 

HRS kritisiert fehlende Gleichberechtigung

Tophotel, hier.

Lists are the new search

B. Evans, here.

Is Big Data Still a Thing?

M. Turck,  here.

The Neural Network That Remembers

Spectrum.ieee.org, here.

GDPR: The End for the Marketing List Industry?

SCL.org, here.

Digital assistants: a new brand platform

TheGuardian, here. 

Facebook has a clever idea to turn itself into a ride-sharing platform

Techinsider.io, here.

Richard Thaler in the Big Short

Video here. 

Individuelle Preise? Bitte nicht!

FAZ, hier.

Cheap cab ride? You must have missed Uber’s true cost

TheGuardian, here.

How Europe is fighting to change tech companies' 'wrecking ball' ethics

TheGuardian, here,

Apple builds secret VR unit

FT, here.

¿Un robot para cada persona mayor?

E. Morozov, aquí.
Ver también aquí. ("nuevo proyecto de colaboración entre IBM, Apple y Japan Post")

How Data Brokers Make Money Off Your Medical Records

ScientificAmerican, here.

EDPS starts work on a New Digital Ethics

EDPS, here.

A Search Engine for Your Personal Memories (and Data)

TheAtlantic, here.

12 Big Industries Where Blockchain Could Be Used

CB Insights, here.

The Promise (and Threat) of Algorithmic Accountability

F. Pasquale, Video here. 

The Future of Legal Services

The Law Society, here. 

US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people's records

BBC.com, here. 

Movidius chips promise to enable real-time image recognition in Android devices

ComputerWorld, here.

The Internet of Arrogant Things (or My First Month with a Nest)

Nick-taylor.co.uk, here. 

Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future

R. Thaler, Webcast here. 

Why do technology companies hire economists, and what is their contribution? What kinds of problems do they work on?

S. Athey, here. 

What will be the impact of machine learning on economics?

S. Athey, here.
NBER session's syllabus here.

The Automation Paradox

J. Bessen, here. 

Uber condamné à verser 1,2 million d’euros à l’Union nationale des taxis

Lesechos.fr, ici. 

"Online Platforms" Etc. Public Consultation: First Brief Results

EC, here. 

« Pretty Easy Privacy », le chiffrement automatique par défaut pour tous

LeMonde, ici. 

The Privatization of Human Rights: Illusions of Consent, Automation and Neutrality

E. Taylor, here.

EC fines car parts producers € 137 789 000 in cartel settlement

Press Release, here. 

Apple Can Still See Your iMessages If You Enable iCloud

MotherBoard, here. 

Facebook looks to its messaging service Whatsapp to gather more personal data

TheDrum, here.

See also Fortune, here. 

Ad blocking is more about personal data than on-target ads

Inma.org, here. 

Google y derecho al olvido: bloqueo por dirección IP

ElFuturo, aquì. 

International Survey on Private Copying

WIPO and Stichting de Thuiskopie, here. 

Fair Share - Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), here.

La CNMC recurre las Ordenanzas del taxi de las ciudades de Málaga y Córdoba

CNMC, aquì.

Google’s Waze launches API for third-party transportation apps (invite-only, free)

VentureBeat, here. 

A European survey on the opportunities and risks of data analytics

Vodafone, here.

The Teladoc Case: Antitrust and Telemedicine as "Disruptive Innovation"

Lexology, here.

Le contrôle juridictionnel du Tribunal de l'Union dans le contentieux concurrence,

Concurrences, ici.

End-User Development in Internet of Things: We the People

M. Burnett, T. Kulesza, here.

Datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte bei der Nutzung vernetzter und nicht vernetzter Kraftfahrzeuge

Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzbehörden und Verband der Automobilindustrie, hier.

Two-Way Street: U.S.-EU Parallels Under the General Data Protection Regulation

J. Brill, here.

Nothing for money

Deloitte, here.

The importance of Misbehaving

Deloitte, here.

Consumer privacy in network industries

CERRE, here. 

Consumer engagement in a digital world

A. Crisholm, here (pdf here). Book mentioned here.

The EU And The Digital Economy [What Think Tanks Are Thinking]

EPthinktank.eu, here. 

Internet Fragmentation: An Overview

W. Drake V. Cerf, W. Kleinwächter, here.

L'informatisation de la Société

S. Nora, A. Minc ici. Vidéo ici. 

Data Exchange website launch adds to personal data debate

FT, here.

Internet of Things: search engine for sleeping kids

ArsTechnica, here.

Off-Topic: Sending the Elevator Back Down

K. Spacey at Davos 2016, Video here.

Alphabet's Page: How to make a sizable business out of whatever problem this or that technology might solve

NYTimes, here.

Wende im Milliardenpoker um Fußballrechte

FAZ, hier.

TfL is quietly testing a system to track every single person on London Underground

TheMemo, here.

Big data : l’enjeu est moins la donnée personnelle que la disparition de la personne

LeMonde, ici.

Online Tracking: What's In It For Consumers?

J. Brill, here.

What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?

TheODI.org, here.

European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons

No-patents-on-seeds.org, here.

The Collaborative Economy

Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), European Parliamentary Research Services, here and here and short video here.

An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?

K. Coates, here.

How blockchain tech could change the way we do business

BBC.com, here.

Android OS has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit, Oracle says

Bloomberg, here.

Economics and Ideology

The Economist, here.
"Meaningless number-crunching to give a veneer of academic credibility to near-useless theories".

One Click Away? Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on IPhone

Bloomberg.com, here.

Digital DNA: The Nagoya Protocol, Intellectual Property Treaties, and Synthetic Biology

M. Bagley, here. 

Study hints at how e-Privacy Directive might be reformed – major changes on the way

Out-law.com, here.

Study mentioned here.

Sharing Economy, Blockchain Markets & Crowd-Based Capitalism

A. Sundararajan, Video here. 

Digitale Wirtschaft und Privatsphäre: Der Preis der Personalisierung

N. Jentzsch, hier. 

The FCO prohibits booking.com’s “narrow” best-price clause

S. Heinz, here. 

The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF’s Klaus Schwab leave out?

A. Maynard, here. 

Apple Presses Supreme Court for Appeal Over eBooks Price Fixing

Fortune.com, here. 

The Final GDPR Text and What It Will Mean for Health Data

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain

UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, here.

Internet providers want to know more about you than Google does, privacy groups say

Washington Post, here.

Towards a material ecology

N.Oxman,  here.

Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications

M. Pilkington, here.

Disrupting the Disruptors

Nesta, here.

Emerging Competition Issues: Keeping Pace in a Changing World

CA Competition Bureau, here.