Spotify Targets 1.5 Billion YouTube Users With New Free Service

TechCrunch, here. 

Beyond yes or no: Judge Richard Leon's options in the AT&T antitrust case

Cnn, here.

How Europe’s Banking Revolution Will Boost Fintech

Knowledge Wharton Penn, here.

Yolt completes Open Banking integration with RBS

Finextra, here. 

EU Code of conduct on agricultural data sharing by contractual agreement

Here.  Remarks by EU Commissioner Hogan here. 

Commission opens in-depth investigation into Apple's proposed acquisition of Shazam

EC, here.

Mercedes setzt KI von Alibaba ein

FAZ, hier.

Facebook's hidden data haul troubles German cartel regulator

Reuters, here. 

Global fintech funding hits record $5.4bn in Q1

FinExtra, here. 

Who’s Benefiting? Revisiting the Innovation and Start-Up Ecosystem

Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

Art imitates life in the digital age

FT, here. 

Privacy and Personal Data Collection with Information Externalities

J. Choi, D.-S. Jeon, B.-C. Kim, here. 

Protecting competition, Reinforcing Consumer Protection, Rethinking Regulation

J. Tirole, Video here.

Some Memorable Quotes:
"Potential competition...if you don't know...the wise thing to do is not to let the merger operate"
"mfn...one of the cleverest strategies I've ever encountered, and people don't get it somehow"
"the important thing is, you can tax people who don't use you"
"I don't have a personal assistant, I don't want a personal assistant"
"What is the right fee for Booking?...I don't know"
"Defaults matter"
"We need the help the consumer...help me...self-regulation is going nowhere"
"Competition policy is slow, and often too late"
"Back and forth process" of regulation "you need to have guidelines and supervision"
"Participative antitrust" (droit de la concurrence participatif, this is the idea, my bet), "regulation reactive to ideas...proposed by the industry"
"You should make regulation agile...and listen to the industry"
"I'm not against breaking up those firms...my gut feeling right now is that it's difficult...harder that it used to be in the past because the technology is moving faster"

Brief discussion of Choi, Jeon, Kim Paper from 29:01

(tbd)

The Amazon Phenomenon

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

US vs EU: Antitrust, Data, and Privacy Policy

Stigler Center, Digital Platforms and Concentration, Panel, Video here. 

A Google Breakup Would Fit the EU's Logic

Bloomberg, here. 

Regulating Facebook merely nips at the edge of a bigger problem

FT, here. 

Australian regulator flags scrutiny of Uber Eats

Reuters, here. 

Law and Autonomous Systems Series: Blockchains and the Right to be Forgotten

M. Finck, here. 

Blockchain Is About to Revolutionize the Shipping Industry

Bloomberg, here. 

Property is theft (and allocatively inefficient too)

D. Coyle, here. 

Facebook parries ad market 'dominance' claims

AFR, here. 

Australia needs tougher penalties for banks, financial institutions, ACCC says

ABC.net.au, here. 

Werbekunden verpflichten sich zu mehr Daten-Transparenz

WuW, hier. 

The challenges for present and future competition enforcement

Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, here. 

Lagarde urges greater scrutiny of big tech companies

FT, here. 

Transcript of the CNBC's interview here:

"EISEN: ALL RIGHT. YOU’VE CERTAINLY BEEN WARNING ABOUT THAT. I KNOW YOU LOOK AT BANK REGULATIONS. WHAT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY REGULATIONS? DO YOU THINK WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE A WAVE OF INCREASED SCRUTINY— OBVIOUSLY WE’VE SEEN SCRUTINY, BUT REVELATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO TECH GLOBALLY AND REVELATIONS INTO THEIR COMPETITIVENESS, AND COMPANIES LIKE FACEBOOK, GOOGLE AND AMAZON.

LAGARDE: WELL, AS YOU SAID IN THE IMF, WE SUPPORT FREE MARKET. WE SUPPORT COMPETITION. WE SUPPORT IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY. WE SUPPORT INNOVATION. AND WE KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH MARKET CONCENTRATION IN THE HANDS OF TOO FEW, WE’RE NOT SEEING COMPETITION, WE’RE NOT SEEING INNOVATION. AND OVER TIME WE ARE SEEING, YOU KNOW, GRADUAL --

EISEN: IS THAT WHEN FACEBOOK IS?

LAGARDE: IT DEPENDS HOW YOU DEFINE THE MARKET. IT DEPENDS WHO SUBSTITUTES. I MEAN, IT’S A VERY COMPLICATED DEBATE.

EISEN: YOU’RE NOT GOING TO CALL ANYONE OUT.

LAGARDE: BUT WE SHOULD ACTUALLY DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS THAT LEVEL OF ACCESS TO MARKET, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE ACCUMULATION OF THAT DATA IN THE HANDS OF A FEW IS NOT GOING TO BE SUCH A BARRIER THAT OTHER ENTREPRENEURS SIMPLY CANNOT ACCESS. SO THE SITUATION IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS IN THE TELECOM AGE OR IN THE GILDED AGE. WE NEED TO REALLY RE-THINK THE WAY IN WHICH THAT SITUATION IS ADDRESSED. COMPETITION IS ENCOURAGED AND IF THAT REQUIRES A NEW SET OF RULES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE Intangibility OF THOSE ASSETS, IT NEEDS TO BE DONE. LOOK AT TAX, FOR INSTANCE. IT’S ONE IN WHICH ALL POLICYMAKERS AROUND THE WORLD NEED TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT: WHERE IS VALUE LOCATED? WHERE IS VALUE GENERATED? HOW SHOULD IT BE TAXED AND WHAT REVENUE SHOULD BE CONTRIBUTED BY THOSE PLAYERS?"

Information Technology and Industry Concentration

J. Bessen, here. 

Data as Destiny? Palantir Knows Everything About You

Bloomberg, here. 

Don’t Stop Believin’: Antitrust Enforcement in the Digital Era

M. Delrahim, here.

The Digital Heroes That Fought Against Government Surveillance Are Quiet About Facebook. They’re Missing Their Moment

Slate, here.

DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim: “American Antitrust Agencies Likely Have Made More Enforcement Mistakes Than Any of Their Foreign Counterparts”

Pro Market, here. 

EP’s Report on the Annual Report on Competition Policy

Here. 

Künstliche Intelligenz im Reality-Check

SAS, hier. 

Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits

TechCrunch, here. 

Facebook to put 1.5bn users out of reach of new EU GDPR privacy law

"In Spirit"

Irish Times, here. 

Productivity and the Financial Sector – What’s Missing?

 C.D. Howe Institute, here. 

So ... you wanna talk about Facebook?

Make me smart, Interview with T. McSweeny, Audio here. 

Revolving doors at the EU commission's finance unit

EUObserver, here. 

Solutions to the Threats of Digital Monopolies

ProMarket, here. 

Data privacy, mergers key topics of discussion during ABA Antitrust Law spring meeting

ABA, here. 

5 questions sur l’action de la Quadrature du Net contre les géants du web

Numerama.com, ici. 

Uber exits Philippines despite antitrust review

AsiaNikkei, here. 

Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service

Bloomberg Technology, here. 

High-Level Hearing: A European Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

Hearing, Video here. 

The European AI Landscape

EC, here.

Economía digital y competencia

A. Faya, aquì.

Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California

LATimes, here. 

The UAE Competition Committee is open for business

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Daten autonomer Autos sollten nicht gleich an den Hersteller gehen

SZ, hier. 

AT&T/Time Warner merger case

Interview with Brent Kendall, Audio here (from 05:30)

Style Is an Algorithm

Racked, here. 

This LinkedIn Lawsuit Proves The Left Doesn’t Really Care About Securing Your Data

The Federalist, here. 

OCBC Bank initiates conversational commerce with Google

Finextra, here. 

Central Banking in a Digital Age: Stock-Taking and Preliminary Thoughts

Brookings, here. 

Facebook admits tracking users and non-users off-site

TheGuardian, here. 

Platforms and Adjacent Market Competition: A Look at Recent History

R. Picker, here. 

Australian fintech firms call for competition watchdog to monitor open banking roll-out

FinExtra, here. 

Unlockd Applies For An Injunction Against Google, Citing Anti-Competitive Conduct

Which-50.com, here. See also here. 

I think more investigations for Facebook are coming...

Interview with M. Vestager, here. 

Santander chair calls EU rules on payments unfair

FT, here. 

The Principle of Purpose Limitation in Data Protection Laws

M. von Grafenstein, here. 

Use our personal data for the common good

H. Shah, here.

The illiberal vision of neo-Brandeisian antitrust

G. Manne, here.

Behavioural Study on the Transparency of Online Platforms

EC, here.

Singapore’s competition watchdog sets interim measures for Grab-Uber merger

Channelnewsasia, here. CCCS’s press release here.

Why Europe, not Congress, will rein in big tech

Washington Post, here.

Reining in Big Data’s Robber Barons

NYBooks, here. 

Hackers stole a casino's high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank

BusinessInsider.de, here. 

AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

House of Lords, here.
CMA's written evidence here.
Interesting written evidence imho:
M. Lynch, here.
Article 19, here
CBI, here
Royal Academy of Engineering, here
The Alan Turing Institute, here
(tbd)


"O, there has been much throwing about of brains."

AI in banking: the reality behind the hype

FT, here.

The way global central banks work is about to fundamentally change — and technology is to blame

BusinessInsider, here.

Request for information regarding facial recognition on Facebook

WP29, here.

Cannibalisation effects, you said?

Picasso, La mujer que llora

#chillincompetitionfineart

Ernst Hafen: Our personal data should only be under our own control

CNN, here.

Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Predict Your Future Actions for Advertisers, Says Confidential Document

The Intercept, here.

Why undertakers are worried

The Economist, here.

Is Tricking A Robot Hacking?

R. Calo, I. Evtimov, E. Fernandes, T. Kohno, D. O’Hair, here.

Privacy Under the Hood: Towards an International Data Privacy Framework for Autonomous Vehicles*

C. Colbert, here.

Remedies for Robots

M. Lemley, B. Casey, here.

Innovation in EU Merger Control

C. Esteva Mosso, here.

Google loses landmark 'right to be forgotten' case

The Guardian, here.

Death By a Thousand Papercuts: How Streaming Services Protect Themselves From Lawsuits by Burying the Copyright Office in Paperwork

Billboard, here.

No, end-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats

G. Zanon, here. 

DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND CONCENTRATION

Stigler Center, 2018 Antitrust and Competition Conference, 19-20 April, here and livestreamed here.

The 2017 Conference has been great fun, highly recommended!

Starting at 3.30 pm TrentoTime.

La nueva economía

CNMC Blog, aquì. 

How CCI should look at M&A deals in digital economy

LiveMint, here. 

Should Privacy Law Regulate Technological Design? An Interview with Woodrow Hartzog

LinkedIn, here. 

Processing Personal Data on the Basis of Legitimate Interests under the GDPR

Future of Privacy Forum, here. 

LA DONNÉE COMME INFRASTRUCTURE ESSENTIELLE

Administrateur général des données, ici. 

What Makes Tech Platforms So Powerful?

L. Khan, here. 

UK advertising in a digital age

House of Lords, here. 

Irish High Court to send off Facebook & US surveillance case to CJEU

M. Schrems, here. 

Understanding the Economics of AI

A. Goldfarb, here. 

There is no AI ethics: The human origins of machine prejudice

J. Bryson, here. 

"Fuchsia ist kein Linux": Google dokumentiert Android-Nachfolger

Heise.de, hier. 

Neutrality, fairness or freedom? Principles for platform regulation

F. Bostoen, here. 

European Commission acts to ban unfair trade practices in the food supply chain

EC, here. 

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: "Wow! Totale Informationskontrolle!"

Profil.at, hier. 

Henrik Kristoffersen v. The Norwegian Ski Federation

EFTA Court, Report of the Hearing here. 

Streit über "Persönlichkeitsstatus" von Robotern kocht hoch

Heise.de, hier.

‘We’ll get back to you’: six questions Mark Zuckerberg dodged

FT, here. See also the comprehensive list of questions-to-be-followed-up here. 

Was bringt die Datenschutz- Grundverordnung für automatisierte Entscheidungssysteme?

S. Dreyer, W. Schulz, hier. 

When science fiction inspires real technology

Technology Review, here. 

Facebook is now in the data-privacy spotlight. Could Google be next?

Washington Post, here. 

And @wavesblog antitrust writing award 2018 goes to...

Here.

(Hopefully, the bottle will be delivered at the next Ascola Conference - NYU 2018)

Rethinking competition in the Digital Economy

Cofece, here.

EU approves changes to Bayer commitments over Monsanto deal

Reuters, here.

Competition policy in a globalized and digitalized world. Challenges of today and tomorrow

Bundeskartellamt, Podiumsdiskussion, Video here. 

Wettbewerb, Verbraucher, Arbeitsplätze – wen oder was schützen Wettbewerbsbehörden?

Bundeskartellamt, Interview Video hier. 

GDPR's right of access

Babbage, here (from 00:48).

Ontwikkelingen digitale revolutie zowel kans als risico

ACM, hier. 

Kartellamt befragt Hotels zu Booking.com

AHGZ, hier. 

Deux députés relancent la possibilité de proposer des alternatives à Google dans les smartphones

Numerama.com, ici. 

The Lundbeck Case and the Concept of Potential Competition

S. Marco Colino, N. Dunne, K. Fournier, S. Pais, D. Ritzmann, here. 

Commission confirms unannounced inspections concerning distribution of sports media rights and other related rights

EC, here.
Murdoch's Fox, and who else? VodafoneZiggo is another investigated company.

2033: How Mark Zuckerberg Fixed Facebook

Politico.com, here. 

The Long Run: Maximizing Innovation Incentives Through Advocacy and Enforcement

M. Delrahim, here. 

Facebook's China Argument Revealed in Zuckerberg's Hearing Notes

Bloomberg, here. 

Google appeals Indian antitrust watchdog's 'search bias' verdict: sources

Reuters, here. Ruling here.
See also this comment.

Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization

H. Varian, here. 

Summary report of the consultation on the review of the directive on the re-use of public sector information

EC, here. 

Creation without consequence: How Silicon Valley made a hot mess of progress

J. Bryson, here. 

FROM METRO TO COTY: A STORY TO BE CONTINUED? THE CJEU'S JUDGMENT IN COTY GERMANY GMBH V PARFÜMERIE AKZENTE GMBH

Baker McKenzie, here. 

THE TAR LAZIO’S JUDGEMENT IN THE ITALIAN ASPEN CASE ON THE IMPOSITION OF UNFAIR PRICES UNDER ART. 102(A) TFEU

M. Angeli, here. 

EU Member States to cooperate on European strategy for Artificial Intelligence

EC, here. Declaration here. 

What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

HBR, here. 

Paul-Olivier Dehaye and the Raiders of the Lost Data

Law.kuleuven.be, here. 

ALGORITHMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: A PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC AGENCY ACCOUNTABILITY

AI Now, here. 

Singapore: Competition watchdog to study online travel booking sector, data portability issues

Today Online, here. 

Amerika erlaubt größte deutsche Auslandsübernahme

FAZ, hier. 

Blockchain to enable medical data to be stored and transmitted safely and effectively

EC, here. here.

What Should Congress Ask Zuckerberg? Nothing.

NyTimes, here. 

A Member State is not required to extend a prohibition on the extradition of its own nationals to the United States to every EU citizen travelling in its territory

Judgment in Case C-191/16 Romano Pisciotti v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, here. 

The UberPop service does not constitute an information society service

Judgment in Case C-320/16, here. 

Uber seeks Dutch payments licence in drive to diversify

Sky News, here. 

Using Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence to Outpace Rivals

Oracle, here. 

Joint Submission to Treasury on the Open Banking Review Final Report

K. Kemp, D. Vaile, here. 

New ways to trade data

The Economist, here. 

Big Data aus wettbewerbs- und ordnungspolitischer Perspektive

J. Haucap, hier. 

Here Are All the Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data

M. Stucke, here. 

Software Interface Copyright

Harvard J of L&T, Special Issue, here. 

Hey, Alexa, What Can You Hear? And What Will You Do With It?

NYTimes, here. 

A German Approach to Antitrust for Digital Platforms

J. Haucap, here.. 

The Uber-Grab merger and the potentially anti-competitive consequences of the battle for ride-hailing dominance

CoRe Blog, here. 

On Uber Selling Southeast Asia Business to Grab

B. Edelman, here. 

eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet’s Potential

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

Vertical restraints, digital marketplaces, and enforcement tools

J. Laitenberger, here. 

Apple Just Poached Google's AI Chief. Now Maybe Siri Will Get Smarter

Fortune, here. 

Synchronised swimming versus competition in banking

ACCC, here. 

FB drama hits open banking

InnovationAus, here. 

Technology & Competition law: A conversation with Stephen King

Audio here.

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Regulator’s Dilemma: Clueless or Venal?

D. Vladeck, here. 

Rethinking Antitrust Tools for Multi-Sided Platforms

OECD, here. 

Tech Giants Breakup

N. Petit, Video here. 

Online platforms and abuse of dominance – the case of Funda Real Estate

D. Mandrescu, here. 

Trade Associations, Information Exchange, and Cartels

Spencer Weber Waller, here. 

Data Lords: The Real Story of Big Data, Facebook and the Future of News

TPM, here. 

Procedimento istruttorio nei confronti di Facebook Inc. per presunte pratiche commerciali scorrette

AGCM, qui.

Following Singapore, Philippines regulator forces Grab to delay closing Uber’s app

TechCrunch, here. 

In Conversation with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

OII, here.

Rapport Villani

Ici.

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield two years on: conoscere i propri polli

G. Buttarelli, here.

Does big data increase prices in China?

Mp.weixin.qq.com, here.

The Age of Artificial Intelligence

EPSC, here.

How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Impact Market Design

P. Milgrom, S. Tadelis, here.

QUALCOMM / NXP SEMICONDUCTORS

Case M.8306, here.  

The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics (January 2018)

S. Athey, here. 

Food Data Driven Business Innovation

Opendata.ch, here. 

KBC app lets customers check accounts at other banks; Citi takes aggregation route

FinExtra, here. 

The Impact of the EU’s New Data Protection Regulation on AI

Center for Data Innovation, here. 

Governments must intervene to build trust in data use

FT, here.
But...the GDPR isn't about data ownership.

Computational Power and the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence

T. Hwang, here. 

Künstliche Intelligenz: EU-Kommission plant umfassende europäische Initiative

Heise.de, hier.
Draft: Maximising the benefits of artificial intelligence, here.

Sprachen Baufirmen über Jahre ihre Preise ab?

20min.ch, hier.

The Innovation Theory of Harm: An Appraisal

V. Denicolo, M. Polo, here. 

Huawei wins IP injunction against Samsung in China

The Register, here. 

Durchleuchtet, analysiert & einsortiert? Wie Unternehmen Daten über unseren Alltag erfassen und gegen uns einsetzen

Kitchen Talks, Video hier (und der Wiener Akzent ein echter Genuss !).

This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook

The Atlantic, here. 

Plataformas chilenas de criptomonedas llaman a la ABIF a tomar definiciones sobre la industria

Pulso.cl, aquì.

To comply with GDPR, Google asks publishers to manage user-data consent for ad targeting in EU

Search Engine Land, here. 

An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest

A. Mathur, A. Narayanan, M. Chetty, here. 

How to Regulate Facebook

Slate, here.

Why have we given up our privacy to Facebook and other sites so willingly?

The Guardian, here.

The Facebook scandal isn’t just about privacy. Your economic future is on the line

The Guardian, here.

Brazil antitrust watchdog to investigate Brazilian banks on fintech complaint

Reuters, here.

'A grand illusion': seven days that shattered Facebook's facade

The Guardian, here.

ICN 2018 New Delhi - Wrap-up

CUTS Int., here.

How Google is eroding consumers’ freedom to choose

Beuc, here.

Robot Regulators. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Bloomberg, here.

Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte bezweifelt Facebooks Datenschutzversprechen

Heise.de, hier.

Facebook largement en tête chez les agriculteurs

Terre-net.fr, ici.

Is Your Blockchain Business Doomed?

Bloomberg, here.

After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, advertisers rethink Facebook data

Digiday, here.

Horizontal mergers and innovation: why I agree with Tommaso Valletti

Chilling Competition, here.

-International Skating Union’s Eligibility rules

CASE AT.40208, here.

Should We Be Concerned About Data-Opolies?

M. Stucke, here.

TRASPORTO MERCI DA E PER LA SARDEGNA: SANZIONI DI 29 MLN DI EURO A MOBY E CIN PER ABUSO POSIZIONE DOMINANTE

AGCM, Qui.

Campaigners hit Cambridge Analytica where it hurts

FT, here.

Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problems are nothing compared to what’s coming for all of online publishing

Doc Searls, here.

EU plans to pull ‘free’ digital services under consumer protection rules

Euractiv, here.

Vertical Mergers

ICN, Video here (Session 1 - 22 March 2018). 

5 takeaways from EU green light for ‘Baysanto’ mega-merger

Politico.eu, here.

Independent Assessor's Report on Facebook's Privacy Program (2012-2013)

PWC, here. 

Geoblocking Regulation enters into force today

EC, here. 

Online Markets and Vertical Restraints: the Same Old Story?

ICN, Video here  (Session 2 - 22 March 2018). The Italian proceedings mentioned (taxi reservation platforms) are here. Interest remarks by ACCC (from 45:15).

What happens when an algorithm cuts your health care

The Verge, here.

Statement by Commissioner Vestager on Commission decision to give conditional approval to Bayer's plans to buy Monsanto ecc.

Press Release, here. See also here. Video of the press conference here (innovation concerns esp. 28:30 ff.). 

Data Economy: some etichettte in due languages

Mia, ad Alpbach Trento qui.

Salesforce will Konkurrenten für knapp 6 Milliarden Dollar kaufen

FAZ, hier.

Why mergers between old-media titans do not matter

FT, here.

Opinion on online manipulation and personal data

EDPS, here.

Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks

Channel 4, Video here. 

Uber halts self-driving tests after death in Arizona

FT, here. 

Google launches cost-per-sale Shopping Actions

Search Engine Land, here. 

Bill Kovacic interviews Andrea Coscelli

Video, here. 

Zuck, You've Got Mail (from Ron Wyden)

Here. 

On Facebook and its "data ecosystem"

Google macht Amazon neue Konkurrenz

FAZ, hier. 

Beware the Big Five

T. Shaw, here.

Meet the data war whistleblower

The Guardian, here.

“Facebook could see it was happening,” says Wylie. “Their security protocols were triggered because Kogan’s apps were pulling this enormous amount of data, but apparently Kogan told them it was for academic use. So they were like, ‘Fine’.”

The Video is also quite instructive, but, wait a minute, he doesn’t even trust HIS OWN  MUM ?!?

50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach

The Guardian, here.

The “New Madison” Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law

M. Delrahim, here.

ICN Vertical Mergers Survey Report

ICN, here.

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected

Recode, here.

China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

Reuters, here.

Diritti TV per la Serie A: via libera a Mediapro, ma sia intermediario equo, trasparente e non discriminatorio

AGCM, qui.

Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe; Jahresbericht 2017

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

'Hipster antitrust' movement is all action, no plan

D. Balto, M. Lane, here.

MasterCard and IBM to set up European ‘data trust’

FT, here.
*warning*: more than avarage legal errors in the article, but the news is there

Probe urged into break-up of big four accountants

FT, here.

DOJ v. AT&T: Transcript of Discussion & Preview of Key Arguments at Trial

Capital Forum, here.

Robotergehirne brauchen Regeln

SZ, hier.

LinkedIn attempts to have data-scraping injunction dismissed

iapp, here. 

Are Important Innovations Rewarded? Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets

M. Kyle, here. 

The First Priority of Antitrust Analysis is Getting It Right, Not Making it Easier

Truth on the Market, here.

This Supreme Court Case Could Make Corporate Giants Even More Powerful

The Nation, here. 

EDPS on privacy protection under the PSD2

Kenneth Rogoff concerned by the dark side of the technology revolution

Afr.com, here.

WhatsApp signs public commitment not to share personal data with Facebook until data protection concerns are addressed

ICO, here.

THE EBA’S FINTECH ROADMAP

EBA, here. 

Competition watchdog raids Amazon’s Tokyo headquarters (again)

FT, here. 

General Court confirms that ‘La Mafia se sienta a la mesa’ cannot be a trade mark on public policy grounds

IPKat, here. 

Bruno Le Maire s’attaque à l’App Store et Google Play

Numérama, ici. 

Google targeted under EU plan to regulate search engines

FT, here. 

FinTech: Commission takes action for a more competitive and innovative financial market

EC, here. FinTech Action Plan here. 

Horizontal Mergers and Innovation

B. Jullien and Y. Lefouili, here. 

BAD ACTORS ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA EXACTLY AS DESIGNED

Wired, here. 

Warum die Politik künstliche Intelligenz regulieren will

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Liability of Online Service Providers for Copyrighted Content – Regulatory Action Needed?

J. Nordemann for the EP, here. 

How to Economize Consumer Protection

M. Baye, J. Wright, here. 

An Updated Antitrust Review of the Bayer-Monsanto Merger

M. Stucke, A. Grunes, here. 

FROM METRO TO COTY: A STORY TO BE CONTINUED? THE CJEU'S JUDGMENT IN COTY GERMANY GMBH V PARFÜMERIE AKZENTE GMBH

A. Cicala, K. Haegeman, R. Cuff, here. 

THE GOVERNANCE & REGULATION OF INFORMATION PLATFORMS

Symposium, Video here (6:15:48).

U.N. investigators cite Facebook role in Myanmar crisis

Reuters, here. 

John Oliver helps you explain cryptocurrencies to your neighbor

J. Oliver, here. 

Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent 'weaponised' web

The Guardian, here. 

FCA publishes discussion paper on transforming culture in financial services

FCA, here.

An ‘electric shock’ when I switched energy provider

FT, here.

GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice

Hardocp.com, here. 

Inequality: What would Karl Marx write today?

FT, here. 

And this year’s Oscar goes to… BigML machine learning

E. Dans, here. 

Trump, Time Warner, AT&T and How to Win the Antitrust Trial of the Century

HollywoodReporter, here. 

The Bank of Amazon could woo 70 million US customers within five years

FinExtra, here. 

8th Report on the Monitoring of Patent Settlements

EC, here. 

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and ‘Autonomous’ Systems

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, here. 

Fair markets in a digital world

M. Vestager, here. 

Reconciling competition and IP law: the case of patented pharmaceuticals and dominance abuse

C. Fonteijn, I. Akker and W. Sauter, here. 

Accounting for Two-Sided Business Reality Reduces False Negatives as Well as False Positives in Antitrust Decisions Involving Platform Enterprises

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?

NYTimes, here. 

La portabilité des données en pratique

Infolabs, ici. 

Bayer in exclusive talks to sell vegetable seeds business to BASF

Reuters, here. 

The New Brandeis Movement: America’ s Antimonopoly Debate

L. Khan, here. 

Staatsministerin für falsche Versprechungen und fliegende Autos

DieZeit, hier. 

Free flow of non-personal data

EP, Draft Report, here. 

Data Portability And Competition Between Technology Platforms

Forbes, here. 

EU executive to propose raft of measures to boost fintech: document

Reuters, here. 

The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights: the evolution of thought underlying policy change

R. Anderson and W. Kovacic, here. 

Publication des conclusions de l'enquête sectorielle publicité en ligne

Autorité de la concurrence, ici et here. 

The First Priority of Antitrust Analysis is Getting It Right, Not Making it Easier

Truth On The Market, here. 

The European Union Anti-Geoblocking Regulation Isn’t the End of the Anti-Geoblocking Battle

M. Trimble, here. 

Here’s Why Amazon Bought a Doorbell Company

Bloomberg Technology, here. 

The Impact of Blockchain on Business Models

H. Tayyab Kamal & S. Tayyab, here. 

On the copyright protection of tastes

ECS, here. 

Bietet Amazon bald eigene Girokonten an?

FAZ, hier. 

ANTITRUST ASPECTS OF BIG DATA AND ALGORITHMS

DLA Piper, Presentation here. 

Ebook-Portal Gutenberg.org sperrt deutsche Nutzer

Br.de, hier. 

Die neuen Plattform-Giganten

J. Haucap, hier. 

COFECE reconoce al Congreso de la Unión por aprobación de Ley Fintech

COFECE, aquì. 

The Platform is the Message

J. Grimmelmann, here. 

Antitrust Conversations with Nobel Laureates

T. Schrepel, here. 

Big Pharma, Big Data-Why Drugmakers Want Your Health Records

NYTimes, here. 

Switzerland: Tightening Antitrust Law

Wenger & Vieli AG, here. 

Vorerst weiter keine Verwendung personenbezogener Daten deutscher WhatsApp-Nutzer durch Facebook

AZ: 5 Bs 93/17, hier.

Repensar la competencia en la Economía Digital

COFECE, aquì

The Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power

NYTimes, here. 

La CNMC inicia la elaboración de un documento sobre el fenomeno Fintech

CNMC, aquì. 

UNITED STATES v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Transcript here. 

The Anti-Trust Case Against Google?

D. Balto, here. 

Fairness in Precision Medicine

Data & Society, here. 

Enforcing EU competition law in a time of change

J. Laitenberger, here.

Apple/Shazam promises to be an interesting merger control case...

A Europe that protects: Commission reinforces EU response to illegal content online

EC, here. 

From Diocletian to pay day loans: what can we learn from successful and unsuccessful price regulation?

M. Starks, here. 

Recent Developments at DG Competition: 2016/2017

EU Chief Economist Team, here. 

Susan Athey: Applying Machine Learning to the Economy

Stanford Business, here. 

Klöckner darf digitale Plattform für Stahlprodukte starten

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations

P. Belleflamme, M. Peitz, here. 

Telegram Triples Price in Largest Initial Coin Offering

Bloomberg, here. 

Economic approach to privacy and data security issues

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers

A. Kruger, E. Posner, here. 

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues

FTC, here. 

Amazon circles home security market with $1bn Ring deal

FT, here. See also here (Reuters).

Daten einfach übertragen: Ihr Recht auf Datenportabilität

Stiftung Datenschutz, hier. 

Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies: How do carriers write policies and price cyber risk?

S. Romanosky et al., here. 

Is the Market for Digital Privacy a Failure?

C. Fuller, here. 

Privacy Expectations and Preferences in an IoT World

P. Emami-Naeini et al., here. 

Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal

Reuters, here. 

Italian marketplace Eataly gets own payments app with Mastercard

FinExtra, here. 

Antitrust enforcement: equal contributions of legal and economic analysis

M. Delrahim, here. 

Google Shopping: letter from comparison shopping services and others calling on the EC to reject current

Here. 

EU: Ban on unjustified geo-blocking expected to apply as of late 2018

BakerMcKenzie, here. 

GDPR will have positive ripple effect, says US consumer group

ComputerWeekly.com, here. 

Switzerland: Spotlight On Copyright Issues Of Blockchain Technology

Mondaq, here. 

Blockchain technology is on a collision course with EU privacy law

Iapp, here. 

Goethe-Uni entwickelt Datenschutz-App für das Smartphone

Aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de, hier.

Opening statement at the PC public hearing into Competition in the Australian Financial System

ACCC, here. 

Facebook’s data collection in Germany caught in antitrust spotlight

MLex Podcast, here. 

Patenting the Future of Medicine: The Intersection of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

S. Tull, here.

In response to EU antitrust ruling, Google Shopping now shows ads from competing shopping engines

Searchengineland.com, here.

Kartell-Man

Hochschule Düsseldorf und Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Open Banking: Opening New Opportunities

Meeco, here. 

Blockchain: What is it good for?

E. Felten, here. 

Economists and the Emergence of Antitrust

Mises Institute, here. 

Ohio v. AmEx - SCOTUS Oral arguments transcript

Here. 

Data Protection and data analytics: what is Art. 29 WP really saying to businesses wanting to innovate with data?

Peep Beep! , here.

Das nächste Instagram? Social-App Vero lockt immer mehr Nutzer an

Heise.de, hier. 

Digital Platforms Inquiry - Issues Paper

ACCC, here. 

EBA Rules out Secure Open Banking?

KuppingerCole, here. 

Why Financial Institutions Are Turning To Chief Data Officers To Generate More Value Out Of Data

Forbes, here. 

How GDPR could weaken, not strengthen, the duopoly

DigiDay, here. 

Data Ready

FSB, here. 

Aura: Telefónica lässt eigenen digitalen Assistenten von der Leine

Heise.de, hier. 

Booking Flights: Our Data Flies with Us

Ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org, here. 

Antitrust World Eyes Justices On AmEx Steering Case

Law360, here. See also this argument preview.

Medicines Innovation And Access: Swiss Stimulate New Thinking

IP-Watch, here. 

DIGITALE PATIENTENAKTE

FAZ, hier.
“Wer einmal seine Daten auf einer Akte einer Kasse habe, der sei auch im Fall von Beitragssatzerhöhungen wenig geneigt, den Anbieter zu wechseln...Die Daten müssten übertragbar bleiben...”

Der Spion flirtet mit

FAZ, hier.

The British couple that cost Google £2.1 billion

Wired UK Podcast, here. And Jeff Jarvis discussing “The Case Against Google” here (from 1:02:18)

Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

S. Naidu, E. Posner, G. Weyl, here.

Snips brings its privacy-focused voice assistant to cars

TechCrunch, here.

TESLA LUST UND DER VERLUST UNBEOBACHTETER MOBILITÄT

DMM,hier.

Car companies are preparing to sell driver data to the highest bidder

ArsTechnica, here.

Why should I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google?

Duck&DuckGo, here.

Digital R&D

Deloitte, here.

No free rides? Platform bans in light of the Coty case

Oxera, here.

To Give A.I. the Gift of Gab, Silicon Valley Needs to Offend You

NYTimes, here.

Les Agtech poussent les murs du Salon de l'agriculture

La Tribune, ici.

GOOGLE AND ANTITRUST

Discussion, Exponent Podcast here (from 04:30).

A Brief Sketch Of (Early Copyright) Privilegio In The Venetian Renaissance

IP-Watch, here.

AT&T fight: David beat Goliath for a reason

Cnbc, here.

BNP Paribas launches fintech investment fund

Finextra, here.

Google sagt den Kontostand – nicht nur bei der Sparkasse Stade-Altes Land

Handelsblatt, hier.

Concurrences conference on innovation economics 2018: two interviews

On excessive pricing, here; on Fintech ❤️ (the GDPR making data “more open” and “less proprietary”? An interesting view indeed!),  here.

Merger Policy and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Time for a Change?

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here. 

Revisiting Vertical Antitrust Enforcement

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here.

What are the Goals of Antitrust? What Should They Be?

v. 

George Mason Law Review 21st Annual Antitrust Symposium, Video here (discussion from 47:36).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has reached a decision on the collusive practices carried out in Italy by Roche and Novartis when marketing the medicinal products Avastin and Lucentis

Osborne Clarke, here. 

Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets

I. Marinescu, H. Hovenkamp, here. 

Die Wettbewerbs- Erklärer

FAZ, hier.

La CNMC incoa expediente sancionador contra Atresmedia y Mediaset

CNMC, aquí.

Good Times, Bad Times, Trust Will Take Us Far: Competition Enforcement and the Relationship Between Washington and Brussels

M. Delrahim, here.

The Antitrust Logic of Biologics

S. Ghosh, here.

A Solution in Search of a Problem at the Biologics Frontier

E. Lietzan, here.

Progressive Antitrust

H. Hovenkamp, here.

Brief comment : “channeling” innovation is not an antitrust goal, but “protecting” innovation is. 

Les monopoles : un danger pour les États-Unis ?

Banque de France, ici.

Dead Reckoning: Navigating Content Moderation After “Fake News”

Data Society, here.

UK’s FCA Inks FinTech Collaboration With CFTC

Pymnts, here. 

How consumers Value Digital Privacy: New Survey Evidence

C. Fuller, here. 

Datenschutz als Dienstleistung

Adzine, hier. 

"Diese Marken sind für Edeka zu wichtig"

Zeit.de, hier. 

Should we treat data as labor? Let’s open up the discussion

Brookings, here. 

Free flow of non-personal data in the European Union

EPRS, here. 

Supreme Court declines to review pay-for-delay ruling

Reuters, here.

Disney Misused 'Star Wars,' 'Frozen' Copyrights, Says Judge

Hollywood Reporter, here. 

Driverless cars: mapping the trouble ahead

FT, here.

Data, Innovation, and Potential Competition in Digital Markets – Looking Beyond Short-Term Price Effects in Merger Analysis

T. McSWEENY; B. O’DEA, here.

Unusually strong words and some concrete proposals. 

Opinion by Former Senior Government Officials and Leading Antitrust Experts on the Significant Antitrust Risks Posed by Broadcom’s proposed takeover of Qualcomm

Here.

Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again

Bloomberg, here. 

Alibaba’s social credit rating is a risky game

 FT, here.

Is MyData a Force or Counter Force?

A. Jogi Poikola, here.

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

, here,

The Case Against Google

The NYTimes, here. 

Das Microsoft-Dilemma

Das Erste, Video hier. 

The Rise of Amazon, Facebook May Be Bad News for the Economy

Bloomberg, here.

Crunching Car Data for Cash: An Israeli Startup Takes on Google

Bloomberg, here.

PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR EU REGULATION FOR ACCESS TO CAR DATA

Fiaregion1, here. 

Tracking-Methoden werden brutaler, Browser-Hersteller schauen weg

Heise.de, hier. 

Nokia is re-evaluating its wearables division

TechCrunch, here. 

Ärztin klagt erfolgreich auf Löschung aus Bewertungsportal

Zeit.de, hier.

A further letter to Makan re IP and Antitrust

Here. 

EU Court ruling on how off-label use is to be analysed under competition law

White & Case, here. 

Goldrausch in der Schweiz

FAZ, hier. 

Amex loses its final appeal – it must cut its fees to retailers who accept BA, SPG and Nectar cards

Headforpoints.com, here. 

The Deeply Human Core of Roche's $2.1B Tech Acquisition - And Why They Did It

Forbes, here.

Big data and innovation: key themes for competition policy in Canada

Competition Bureau, here.

Tech investor Roger McNamee: 'I would like Google to be broken up into 8 or 10 different monopolies'

CNBC, video here.

Mes data sont à moi. Pour une patrimonialité des données personnelles.

Génération libre, ici.

A qui confier notre portefeuille de données personnelles ?

Du grain à moudre (France culture), Podcast ici.