Polish competition authority declares that Uber does not pose a threat to competition and protection of consumer interests.

A. Stawicki, here.
Statement of UOKiK's position here. 

Tripadvisor chief Stephen Kaufer sees no threat from direct hotel booking

IrishTimes, here. 

Waze va concurrencer BlaBlaCar avec un service de covoiturage

Numerama, ici. 

Pratiques Unilatérales

F. Marty, A. Wachsmann, Chroniques ici. 

CMA warns UK estate agents against colluding in online portal selection

EU-competitionlaw.com, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Oracle v. Google - Day 5

S. Jeong, Storify here. 

Die Hotel-Branche soll die Zimmerpreise von Buchungsplattformen wieder unterbieten dürfen, kündigt Wirtschaftsminister

Tiroler Tageszeitung, hier. 

Retail banking market investigation: Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here.

Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

TechCrunch, here.

A brief history of disobedience

Seriously..., Podcast here.

How much of an optimistic disobedient person are you?

Vermieter zeigen Berliner Ferienwohnungs-Verbot bei EU an

Morgenpost, hier.

Made in Roma - Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica

Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mostra, info qui.
V. anche S. Pastor, Dal “Domo Roma” al “Made in Roma”, qui.

Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects

VentureBeat, here.

Tacit Agreement Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

W. Page, here.

Online Platforms, Competition Rules and Consumer Protection in Travel Industry

M. Colangelo, V. Zeno-Zencovich, here.

European Union Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost

B. Galle, here.

Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case

J. Grimmelmann, here.

Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking

Forbes, Here.

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

TheGuardian, Here.

Some hope for software patents in the US after the CAFC's Enfish decision, but this is no game-changer

Iam-Media, Here.

How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

TechCrunch, Here.

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

TheGuardian, here.

Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse

TheTelegraph, here.

Okcupid And Google Deepmind: Happily Ever After? Purposes And Ethics In Datasharing

J. Persson, here.

Cybersecurity Futures 2020

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, here.

(Already compulsory reading for students attending my classes next semester - you're warned).

Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

Reuters, here.

Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?

TheAtlantic, Here.

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data (again)

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

Slightly revised and updated version (and yes, this week's FR and D Data Report is also considered).

EU’s Vestager Considers Third Antitrust Case Against Google

A. White, here. 

Matchmakers: The Future of Online Dating Platforms?

Arstechnica, here. 

What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Draft Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities

D. Seng, here.

Runkeeper tracks users when the app is not in use

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Ready for the week-end?

Spanish sherry maker fined by for cartel conduct aimed at raising export prices, here (Spanish)

Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust and Competition Policy

S. Martin, here. 

Antitrust in the Age of Amazon

NYTimes, here.

In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial

S. Jeong, here. 

The Blockchain is the new Google

TechCrunch, here. 

European online travel marketplace Evaneos picks up $21M funding

TechCrunch, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gegen Facebook: Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße?

D. Wiedmann, T. Jäger, hier.

Uber’s Antitrust Problem

Prospect.org, here.

In a $9 Billion Trial, Google's Secret Weapon Is a Filing Cabinet

MotherBoard, here. 

With help from Alexa, Kayak debuts voice-enabled travel search on Amazon Echo

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Fair use’ test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

MLex, here. 

GDPR and privacy are smokin’ hot for innovation right now

S. Carroll, here. 

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

WashingtonPost, here.
See also Led Astray, here. 

An EU exception for Text and Data Mining in the pipeline

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

Targeted online ads: Do customers benefit from giving out personal information to advertisers?

Stanford Business, here. 

Patent Trolls: Moral Panics, Motions in Limine, and Patent Reform

E. Lee, here. 

Android Share Growth is Highest in EU5 (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) in Over Two Years

Kantarworldpanel, here. 

3D, yes. But do it yourself not so much.

InsideStory, here. 

Wal-Mart Takes Another Swipe at Fees for Payment Cards

Bloomberg, here. 

Innovative uses of consumer data by financial institutions

EBA, Discussion Paper, here. 

Où est passé le bien commun ?

J. Tirole, ici. 

Keeping Pace in the Digital Age

T. McSweeney, Video here. Written comments here.

The next AI is no AI

TechCrunch, here. 

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age

TechCrunch, here. 

China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say

BBC, here. 

New report shows some publishers pay to join Snapchat's Discover section

Recode, here. 

The Role of Two-Sided Markets in United States v. American Express

E. Hochstadt and M. Thomas-Kennedy, here. 

BlaBlaCar dice que su conductor que más ganó obtuvo 3 euros en un año

ElPais, aquì. 

Competition Law, Market Power, and (Big) Data (retitled)

Autorité de la concurrence,
Bundeskartellamt, here.

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

TheVerge, here.
Demo here.

Personal digital assistants are on the rise (and they want to talk)

USAToday.com, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf lässt einstweilig abblitzen

Hotellerie.de, hier. 

The digital age of data art

TechCrunch, here. 

How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey, here. 

Millionenbuße wegen vertikaler Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Bier

FAZ.net, hier.
Fallbericht hier.

Disruptive innovations in legal services

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

New app gives Uber a little disruption of its own

BostonGlobe, here. 

Vehicle Dealers Allege Car Carrier Price Fixing

Maritime-executive, here.
Complaints here and here. 

Chasing the Uber model is killing a lot of on-demand companies

VentureBeat, here. 

The Platform Society

J. Van Dijk, Podcast here.

The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners

D. Beyer, here.

It begins: BotRevenue.com to serve ads in bots

VentureBeat, here.

Retrial of Oracle copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday

SFGate, here.

Auslieferung wegen Kartellvergehens: EuGH prüft Staatshaftung der Bundesrepublik im Fall Pisciotti

Juve.de, hier.

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

MappingBabel, here.

One of the world's largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars

HathiTrust, Here.

Challenging Anticompetitive Acquisitions and Enforcement of Patents

AAI, here. 

How Android gets to 100% market share

TechCrunch, here.

Facebook is building AI that builds AI

Wired, here. 

Italian Film Industry Condemns Paramount’s EU Antitrust Deal

HollywoodReporter, here. 

CMA publishes one stop guide to obtaining redress for competition law breaches

Out-law.com, here. 

New regulations for the grocery sector now in force in Ireland

CCPC, here. 

eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker

TechCrunch, here. 

An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe

OFE, here. 

Regulating Patent Hold-Up

LCII Policy Brief, here. 

3D printing companies request Supreme Court clarification over cheerleader uniform copyright case

3ders.org, here.
Petition here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Open Data, Privacy, and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework

F. Borgesius, J. Gray & M. van Eechoud, here. 

Sensay, a chatbot for getting help with any task, passes 1 million users

VentureBeat, here. 

Merger Remedies Guide

ICN Merger Working Group, here. 

Government Advocacy and Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project Report, here.

Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

NewScientist, here.

Liability for robots/AI generated harm

N. Petit, presentations here and here.

Disruptive innovation: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Forum, contributions here.

Anticipating Disruptive Strategies

Deloitte, here.

Australia should follow Europe against US digital giants

TheAustralian, here.

Los grandes fabricantes alertan: la marca blanca es 'invisible' para Competencia

ElEspanol, aquí

Google y el abuso de posición de dominio: una cronología

CNMC, here.

Online platforms: Commission wants to make the internet more like traditional media

Communia, here.

Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational

BuzzFeed, here.

Ever-Litigious Apple Loses Copyright Battle With China Over iPhone

Sputniknews, here.

Accountable Algorithms

J. Kroll, J. Huey, S. Barocas, E. Felten, J. Reidenberg, D. Robinson, and H. Yu, here.

Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights

The White House, here.

"Meet"...me

OFE, here.

Blockchain and big data privacy in healthcare

IAPP, here. 

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

TheGuardian, here. 

The business face of Big Data: do we have to care

CEPIC, here.

Antitrust regulators get tough on Google

KoreanTimes, Here.

As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Transient Power And A Few Dollars

BuzzFeed,  here.

Always On: Privacy Implications of Microphone-Enabled Devices

Future of Privacy Forum, here.

Big Data Does Not Shield Tech Companies From Competition

A. Lambrecht, C. Tucker, here.

What's at Stake in Algorithmic Accountability?

N. Couldry, here.

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

J. Nowag, here.

Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?

DigiDay, here.

Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU

M. Sag, here.

The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications

M. Montejo, here. 

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market

O. Batura, N. van Gorp, P. Larouche (and L.Filistrucchi), here.
TNO/Ecorys/IViR Report here. 

Musicians: canaries in the coalmine

J. Lanier, here.
WIPO Magazine, Interview here. 

Who's downloading pirated papers?

ScienceMag.org, here.

What is the European Commission’s problem with Google and Android?

M. Martyniszyn, here. 

Will blockchains remove the need for an intermediary?

iDate, here. 

Airbnb dumps Berlin holiday flats before city crackdown

IrishTimes, here. 

Bathroom supplier fined £826,000 for restricting online prices

CMA, here.

"The CMA will issue its formal infringement decision shortly."

Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly

NYTimes, here. 

Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data

WRR, here. 

Google Tests Feature That Lets Media Companies, Marketers Publish Directly to Search Results

WSJ, here. 

Competition Tribunal rules against TREB in dispute over home sales data

CBC.ca, here.
CB's press release, here. 

PayPal Says Federal Trade Commission Investigating Venmo

Bloomberg, here. 

Whoa, Amazon isn't just making money. It's making more money than ever.

Wired, here. 

TripAdvisor acquires HouseTrip as home-rental market consolidates

VentureBeat, here. 

Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users

TechCrunch, here. 

Le Sénat adopte une disposition contre les abus de Google

Numerama.com, ici. 

Buchungsportal darf nicht mit eigenen Hotel-Sternen werben

FAZ, hier. 

Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, AU Government agency says

ABC.net.au, here.

Draft Report here. 

Colgate fined over price fixing

CPI, here.
ACCC's press release, here. 

The Force of Google

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here. 

Why the EU is going after Google and not Apple

R. Picker, here. 

La economía UBER

Focoeconomico.org, aquí.

BMW, Daimler Steer Clear of Apple Car Project

Technewsworld, here. 

Commission wants to regulate US-dominated online platform market ("leaked" draft communication)

EurActiv, here.
Draft communication here. 

Government Advocacy & Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project, Presentation here.

Unfortunately, I was so far unable to retrieve a copy of the report (conference materials available on the flash drive distributed to the participants in ICN 2016 Singapore, apparently).

The CMA has asked a number of supermarkets to review their promotions and agreed specific changes with Asda

Pree Release, here.
ASDA's commitments, here. 

Balancing the effects of online vertical restraints

M. Mandorff, Presentation here. 

How GDPR changes the rules for research

The Privacy Advisor, here. 

Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development

UNCTAD, here. 

Facebook considering a number of ways to let users earn money from posts

DigitalTrends, here. 

ICOMP on Statement of Objections against Google Android

Here.

7 Top Takeaways from EU’s Google-Android-Tying Charges

S. Cleland, here. 

Appropriability and the European Commission's Android Investigation

D. Auer, here. 

Google, Online Search and Consumer Confusion in Australia

A. Scardamaglia, A. Daly, here. 

EC Statement of Objections on Google's Tactics in Mobile

B. Edelman, here. 

Paranoid About Android

Bloomberg, here. 

Android’s Model of Open Innovation

Google, here. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on Android operating system and applications

EC, Press Release here.
Commissioner Vestager's Statement here.
Factsheet, here.
Press conference, recordings here (Statement) and here (Q&A)

Negative externality: my paper's massively outdated now.

Hankook Tire fined in China for resale price maintenance

Yonhapnews, here. 

Competencia y economía colaborativa

ElPeriodico, aquì.

Europe is targeting Google under antitrust laws but missing the bigger picture

J. Powles, here. 

Advancing the Internet of Things in Europe

EC, here. 

Fair Use and its politics, at home and abroad

J. Hughes, Presentation here. 

Statement Regarding Investigation into Alleged Anti-Competitive Conduct by Google

Competition Bureau (Canada), here. 

Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market

UK House of Lords, here.

Nice, informative read. The irony is, though, that given the actual pace of technological and other developments, some parts of it already feel a bit old.

Android App Distribution Agreements Do Not Foreclose Competition

Project-disco.org, here. 

EC to challenge French taxi law after Uber complaint

Reuters.com, here. 

Vorlagebeschluss im Berufungsverfahren um Zulässigkeit der Einstellung von Markenware auf Online-Plattformen

OLG Frankfurt am Main, hier. 

As search changes, Google changes

SearchEngineLand, here. 

L’autocar, BlaBlaCar et le chemin de fer

F. Lévêque, ici. 

Personal data in an uncertain world

Dataethnographies, here. 

Vergleichsportale sollen Suchkriterien und Provisionen offenlegen - freiwillig oder notfalls per Gesetz

Heise.de, hier. 

Disruptive innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Parte l’esame su ddl sharing economy

Corriere.it, here.

Competition: the mother of invention

M. Vestager, here. 

How Will Facebook Make Money Off Live Video? Just Look at TV.

Recode, here. 

Judge Andrews permits Microsoft’s SEP-based antitrust claims against InterDigital to proceed (Microsoft v. InterDigital)

Kelley Drye & Warren, here.
Order here.

Trading start-ups are preparing major bank antitrust suits

Reuters, here. 

Automakers welcome new EU data protection rules

ACEA, here. 

Data brokers : le pétrole et l’iceberg

CNIL, ici. 

How to reboot the FTC

Politico.com, here. 

ABA Antitrust Section’s Spring Meeting—What You Need to Know

Perkins Cole, here. 

Watermarking and Blockchain Challenges

Copyrightandtechnology, here. 

Lyft Is Gaining on Uber as It Spends Big for Growth

Bloomberg, here. 

Das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger Hintergründe und wesentliche Fragen

T. Kreutzer, hier. 

Say Nay to the Neighbouring Right!

B. Hugenholtz, here. 

Benefits of Competition and Indicators of Market Power

CEA, here. 

Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten: Sollte Datenschutz eine Rolle spielen?

N. Jentzsch, hier. 

Copyright Fight Club

Politico.eu, here. 

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.