Dublin-based Ion Group in talks to buy Mergermarket owner

FT, here. 

Fintech and Blockchain: Where Silicon Alley Meets Hyperconverged Infrastructure

BankInnovation.net, here. 

2019 Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Can We Hold Machines Accountable?

Silicon Flatirons Conference, Videos here. 

GOOGLE’S NEW PRIVACY FEATURES PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON USERS

Wired, here. 

Expedia Under Investigation by Utah Over Hotel Collusion Claims

D. McLaughlin, here.

Not the first time that Expedia and TravelPass lock horns, here. 

2019 ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION CONFERENCE - DIGITAL PLATFORMS, MARKETS, AND DEMOCRACY: A PATH FORWARD

Stigler Center, 15-16 May 2019,  here. Live streaming!

Regulating Facebook and Google Pt 1: Markets

Capitalisn't Podcast, here. 

Japan's 'information banks' to let users cash in on personal data

Nikkei, here. 

Deep Dive into Real-Time Bidding (RTB)

R. van Eijk, Video here. 

Zuboff's book everywhere

My provisional take (but sadly no Ascola paper on the topic - max one individual paper pp - but apparently *two* co-authored papers are fine), here. 

Essential California: Why San Francisco banned cashless stores

LATimes, here. 

Automating Society: Taking Stock of Automated Decision-Making in the EU

AlgorithmWatch in cooperation with Bertelsmann Stiftung, supported by the Open Society Foundations, here.

Evaluating the EC Private Data Sharing Principles

B. Gonzalez Otero, here. 

A FRAND Regime for Dominant Digital Platforms

M. Heim, I. Nicolic, here. 

Exploring the Interfaces Between Big Data and Intellectual Property Law

D. Gervais, here. 

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

NyTimes, here. 

2. Öffentliche Sitzung der Datenethikkommission

Live-Stream hier. 

Tencent and Alibaba granted licences to offer Hong Kong banking

FT, here. 

Establishing the rules for building trustworthy AI

L. Floridi, here. 

Ethically Aligned Design

IEEE, here. 

Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses

NYTimes, here. 

Microsoft, Starbucks Team On AI-Powered Predictive Orders

Pymnts.com, here. 

How Digital Platforms Have Become Double-Edged Swords

MIT Sloan MR, here. 

Consumers as prey for AI

Competition Lore Podcast, here. 

Accountability without liability: ‘to whom’ and ‘with what consequences’? (Questions for the 2019 OECD privacy Guidelines review)

G. Greenleaf, here. 

Competitive Edge: Principles and presumptions for U.S. vertical merger enforcement policy

J. Baker, N. Rose, S. Salop, F. Scott Morton, here. 

Facebook stops blocking some blockchain ads

TechCrunch, here. 

ASCOLA 2019 Aix-en-Provence Faculty of Law

Programme, here. 

HEARING ON “OVERSIGHT OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: STRENGTHENING PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS’ PRIVACY AND DATA SECURITY”

Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Hearing on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, live now here.

Is competition enough? Competition for consumers, on behalf of consumers.

A. Tyrie, here.

Google Face Match brings privacy debate into the home

FT, here. 

Facebook has hired several former PayPal employees for its mysterious blockchain project.

Bloomberg, here.

M.B., for you...

Facebook picks London as base for WhatsApp push into payments

FT, here. 

The Case for the Digital Platform Act: Market Structure and Regulation of Digital Platforms

H. Feld, here. 

Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy

US Senate Committee Hearing, here. 

ACCESO DE APLICACIONES A LA PANTALLA EN DISPOSITIVOS ANDROID

AEPD, aquì.

CONTROL DEL USUARIO EN LA PERSONALIZACIÓN DE ANUNCIOS EN ANDROID

AEDP, aquì.

The Data Mobility Sandbox and a peek at the future of personal data

Digi.me, here. 

Fairness and Competitiveness in a Digitised World

M. Vestager, Live streaming, today 12:30 re:publica 2019, here. 

Free translation: L'Europa non è perfetta ma è una figata di inizio. (warning: strong language)

IAB internet advertising revenue report

IAB, here. 

The creeping threat of facial recognition

FastCompany, here. 

Android now has 2.5B users

TechCrunch, here. 

How can more people benefit from the knowledge economy?

Future curious, Podcast here.
Nesta, Imagination unleashed: Democratising the knowledge economy here.
Roberto Unger's book here.
OECD Discussion here. 

Weighing the value of data – trade-offs, transparency and competition in the digital marketplace

R. Finer, here. 

AI in law enforcement needs clear oversight

FT, here. 

Intellectual Property and the Price of Prescription Drugs: Balancing Innovation and Competition

Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing here. With the great Prof. Michael Carrier. 

On the Algorithmic Accountability Act - Opinion

M. Kaminski, A. Selbst, hier. 

THE EUROPEAN UNION: A PEOPLE-CENTRED AGENDA: SECTION 12

OECD, here. 

Big Tech im Check

Video hier. 

Review of Online Targeting

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, here.

Review on Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, here. 

Automated Decision-Making in the EU Member States Laws: The Right to Explanation and Other 'Suitable Safeguards'

G. Malgieri, here. 

Big Tech Is Spying on Your Wallet

WashingtonMonthly, here.

Sanders Calls for Breaking Up Big Agriculture Monopolies

NYTimes, here. 

Tristan Harris says tech is “downgrading” humanity — but we can fix it

Recode, Podcast here. 

Administration by Algorithm? Public Management Meets Public Sector Machine Learning

M. Veale, I. Brass, here. 

Bergen Competition Policy Conference 2019

Video recordings and slides here. 

Bitkom warnt vor bedingungsloser Datenweitergabe

Golem, hier. 

Alex Rosenblat on the cultural impact and influence of Uber

The Rideshareguy, Podcast here. 

New report calls out failing Open Banking API services

FinExtra, here. 

First Draft! A pro-competition data sandbox for the digital world

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

Comments would be great, please write to simonetta.vezzoso@unitn.it, many thanks!

F.T.C. Wants to Punish Facebook, but the Divided Agency May Go Only So Far

NYTimes, here. 

Project Libra: Facebook to launch stablecoin-based payments network

TheBlockCrypto, here.

A broadly-shared sin: hindsight bias

BBC, here. 

Enforcing European Competition Law in a Global Digital Economy

A. Ezrachi. A. Reyna, here. 

EU E-Commerce Proposal Seeks Data Privacy Rules for WTO Members

Bloomberg, here. 

Competition in Television and Digital Advertising

M. Delrahim, here. 

Life Fitness’s Advertising Platform Brings Programmatic Ads to the Gym

AdWeek, here. 

A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

C. Zacharias, here. 

AI and Education

Interview with T. Escrig, here. 

Ireland's Data Protection Commission opens statutory inquiry into Quantcast International Limited

Here.
For more info here. 

In praise of antitrust compliance programs

M. Delrahim, here (who among us @WavesBlog Readers wouldn't join in?).

Peloton Fires Back At Music Publishers With Antitrust Allegations

Forbes, here. 

Zuckerberg's privacy joke

Here. 

The Antitrust Case Against Facebook

D. Srinivasan, here. 

Facebook opens its data to academics for first time

FT, here. 

The economics of the security of consumer-grade IoT products and services

Internet society, here. 

KEY DRIVERS, EMERGING TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN CORPORATE BANKING

FinExtra/Oracle, here. 

Beware of 'Algorithmic Regulation'

S. Delacroix, here. 

The new division of labor

Deloitte, here. 

Economic Measurement of AI

K. McElheran, here. 

A look at the proposed Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019

iapp, here. 

AAI Interview With Antitrust Expert Jonathan Baker – A Preview of His Forthcoming Book: The Antitrust Paradigm

AAI, here. 

Facebook Is Turning Instagram Into The New Facebook

BuzzFeedNews, here. 

Concerns Over Privacy and Security Contribute to Consumer Distrust in Connected Devices

Internet Society, here. 

Kenya Signs $665.4m Deal With China For Konza Data Centre And Smart City Plan

Data-economy, here. 

Ausschluss von Vergabeverfahren: Gleiss-Mandantin Daimler und andere Kartellanten unter Druck

Juve.de, hier. 

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENHANCE OR HACK HUMANITY?

Wired, here. 

A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well

NiemanLab, here. 

Whistleblowers: Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales

CNN, here. 

UK competition regulator approves $2.2bn PayPal-iZettle deal

FT, here. See also here and here and the whole decision here. 

What can the first blockchain antitrust case teach us about the crypto-economy?

K. Stylianou, here.

Live comments here. 

The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million

Recode, here. 

According to Advocate General Szupunar a service such as that provided by the AIRBNB portal constitutes an information society service

CJEU, Case C-390/18, here. 

The Schweitzer Review

Achat de crypto-monnaies: compte bloqué par une banque

Ici.

No-Fault Digital Platform Monopolization

M. Lao, here. 

Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform

TechCrunch, here. 

Financial Data Aggregation e Account Information Services

Consob, qui. 

Facebook, Google are not publishers, says US anti-trust expert

Financial Review, here. 

Dynamic Competition in Dynamic Markets - A Path Forward

Conference, Live Stream (00:30 AM, 30 April 2019), here.  

Datenschutz-Aufsicht: Nutzung von Drohnen rechtlich "in der Regel nicht möglich"

Heise.de, hier. 

AI and decision making in organizations

D. Bouiller, Video here. 

Mastercard and Visa to slash inter-regional fees for tourist cards in EU

FinExtra, here. 

The impact and effectiveness of Innovate

FCA, here. 

Deeds not words: the next stage of the FCA’s innovation journey

C. Woolard, here. 

Werbebetrug mit Apps: Google wirft Hersteller aus Play Store

Heise.de, hier. 

New institutions are needed for the digital age

J. Tennison, FT, here. 

Danish DPA Issues First GDPR Fine: minimisation and anonymisation

GDPRToolkit, here. 

Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction

NYTimes, here. 

Barley unterstützt Vestager-Vorstoß gegen Digitalkonzerne

Hasepost.de, hier. 

Are (US) regulators out of ideas when it comes to Facebook’s unprecedented power and reach?

NYTimes, here. 

Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook

NYTimes, here.

Not hard to figure out who the dissenting FTC member might be.

Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk.

K. Swisher, here. 

Some Amazon Sellers Are Paying $10,000 A Month To Trick Their Way To The Top

BuzzFeedNews, here. 

Facebook says it filed a US lawsuit to shut down a follower-buying service in New Zealand

TechCrunch, here. 

How Google treats Meredith Whittaker is important to potential AI whistleblowers

Venture Beat, here. 

Pons und Langenscheidt dürfen fusionieren

FAZ, hier (und hier).

EU-Wettbewerbskommissarin Vestager will Macht der Weltkonzerne neu regulieren

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses

Bloomberg, here. 

TAKING THE LEAD IN ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT: EVALUATING INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

G. Gürkaynak, here. 

THE BRAVE BROWSER WILL PAY YOU TO SURF THE WEB

Wired, here. 

JD.com says putting chickens on the blockchain was great for business

TNW, here. 

Canada: Privacy Investigation of Facebook

Here. 

What is machine learning and why should I care?

CJR.org, here. 

Telematik-Versicherung: Ein Algorithmus entscheidet, wer sicher fährt

Netzpolitik.ord, hier. 

As Amazon Gets Bigger, Sellers Feel the Squeeze

Decrypted, Podcast here. 

Walmart unveils an A.I.-powered store of the future, now open to the public

TechCrunch, here. 

What has the EU ever done for us?

          Here. 

   "Oooh - peace...Shut up!"

La CNMC lanza una consulta pública sobre la publicidad online en España

Aquì. 

Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp

The Register, here.  See also here.

Tesla plans to launch an insurance product ‘in about a month’

TechCrunch, here. 

Slapping Facebook's Wrist

Labor AI centre set for Melbourne

Innovationaus.com, here. 

FTC Charges Surescripts with Illegal Monopolization of E-Prescription Markets

Here. 

Digital Health Data and Information Sharing: A New Frontier for Health Care Competition?

J. Adler-Milstein, M. Gaynor, here. 

Warren v. Amazon on Twitter

Thread Here.

From the Dark Side to the Bright Side: Exploring Algorithmic Antitrust Compliance

A. Deng, here. 

Monopolkommission empfiehlt, die von Miba und Zollern beantragte Ministererlaubnis nicht zu erteilen

Stellungnahme, hier. 

Just like that

HT @UGambini

Apple muss Erben Zugang zu iCloud-Account eines Verstorbenen gewähren

Spiegel Online, hier. 

Brazil's antitrust watchdog probing banks over competition hurdles to fintech

Reuters, here. Nota técnica aqui. 

Nicknames come with the job

M. Vestager, Video here. 

Will Netflix eventually monetize its user data?

J. Mittell, here. 

THE DISTINCTIVE DNA OF EU ANTITRUST?

A. Ezrachi on CompetitionLore, here. 

One Country Blocks the World on Data Privacy

Politico EU, here. 

Building an AI workforce

A. Ng, Podcast here. 

Google & Amazon reach an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each others’ platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

Shaping Choices in the Digital World

LINC, here. 

Google to suggest 10 browser and search engine alternatives for Android users in Europe

Venture Beat, here. 

BEUC calls for a cross-institutional scrutiny of Facebook’s data practices

BEUC, here. 

Broadband firms and government to hold talks over Google Chrome update

The Drum, here. 

Understanding the development of contemporary economics through major controversies : syllabus, lecture summaries and reflections

B. Cherrier, here. 

Event Recap: European AI Strategies

Center for Data Innovation, here. 

Singapore's "FinTech Fast Track" initiative is doing swimmingly well, thank you

IPKat, here. 

Revolut promises to grow up as it seeks new investment

FT, here. 

The privacy and antitrust worlds are starting to cross over

Iapp, here. 

Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android adds single sign-in, can now block Chrome and Safari access to some apps

ZDNet, here. 

Privacy, Obscurity and Keeping Economics Where it Belongs

G. Hull, here. 

Spotify lodges antitrust complaint against Apple: it’s ‘time to play fair’ in the music streaming industry

F. Bostoen, here. 

Big Tech to face antitrust law on user data in Japan

Asia Nikkei, here.

Amazon: investigation launched on possible abuse of a dominant position in online marketplaces and logistic services

AGCM, qui. Provvedimento qui.

Google & Amazon reach an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each others’ platforms

TechCrunch, here. 

Google lets Android users choose browsers to ease EU antitrust concerns

Reuters, here. 

CMA recommends shake-up of UK audit market

CMA, here. 

Continental, Valeo seek EU antitrust action against Nokia

Reuters, here. 

CPI Audio Interview with Philip Marsden

Here. 

The EDPB’s Narrow View of Contractual Necessity

HogamLovells, here. 

Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects

EDPB, here. 

‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’

The Atlantic, here. 

Data trusts: lessons from three pilots

ODI, here. 

German competition authority pushes the boundaries of abuse of dominance with infringement finding on online data collection

Bristows, here. 

The battle of Fintech is over, the battle of TechFin is about to begin

Daily Fintech, here. 

vzbv klagt erfolgreich gegen Google

vzbv, hier.

Competition watchdog strengthens ties with FBI to fight cartels

The Sydney Morning Herald, here. 

BMW, Qualcomm Battle Against VW, Renault on Connected Car Rules

Bloomberg, here. 

Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years

ZDNet, here. 

Political Economy of the Quantum Information Age

C. Hoofnagle, here. 

Mastercard ruling: almost every UK adult could receive payout

TheGuardian, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show

NBC News, here. 

Facebook says it never sells your data but these internal documents show exactly how much they value your data in dollars

BoingBoing, here. 

Apple and Qualcomm Settle All Disputes Worldwide

NYTimes, here. 

Elektronische und digitale Zahlungsdienstleistungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Antwort der Bundesregierung, hier.  

idealo verklagt Google auf Schadensersatz wegen Missbrauchs seiner marktbeherrschenden Stellung

Presseportal.de, hier. 

Digital Innovation: Seizing Policy Opportunities

OECD, here. 

President of E-Commerce Company Pleads Guilty To Price Fixing

DoJ, here. 

Leave, Remain & Common Ground: Pragmatism in Dealing with Tech Giants

P. Marsden, here. 

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

Bloomberg, here. 

Google’s Next Big Money Maker Could Be the Maps on Your Phone

Bloomberg, here. 

CMA alleges piano supplier illegally prevented price discounts

CMA, here. 

Sector inquiry on comparison websites - Bundeskartellamt wants to terminate infringements of consumer rights and demands new competences

Bundeskartellamt, here.

Rakuten, Booking.com and Expedia raided by Japan's antitrust watchdog over lodging price policy

Japan Times, here. 

How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy

T. Wu, here. 

ACM launches investigation into abuse of dominance by Apple in its App Store

ACM, here. 

Market study into mobile app stores

ACM, here. 

In defense of the black box

E. Holm, here. 

On the limits of a new AI-inspired Gosplan system

Y. Feygin, here.

Facebook to clearly explain how it uses consumer data - EU

Reuters, here.
See also here.

Ethics washing made in Europe

T. Matzinger, here. 

CMA chides big banks for Open Banking delays

FinExtra, here. 

European data supervisor investigates Microsoft software used by EU

Reuters, here. 

The case against Facebook: A 'dataopoly' with too much market power

CBC, here. 

Competition in a globalised world: the role of public policies

Banque de France, Video here.
Interesting observations by the Governor on Fintech and Techfin start at 8:58:52.

Competition Policy for the Digital Era

J. Crémer Y.-A. de Montjoye, H. Schweitzer, here. 

Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts

NYtimes, here. 

IMF warns that tech giants stifle innovation and threaten stability

The Guardian, here. 

Landlord 2.0: Tech’s New Rentier Capitalism

OneZero, here. 

CCPA public comments

Here. 

Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender

The Economist, here. 

Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA-compliant. Tech giant says health data can now be accessed securely

Stat News, here. 

Elizabeth Warren claims credit as Amazon demotes private label ads

FT, here. 

VW, BMW and Daimler Hindered Clean-Air Technology, European Regulator Says

NYTimes, here. See also here.

Changes to EU antitrust enforcement on Big Tech urged

FT, here. 

EU goes after Valve for ‘geo-blocking’ Steam activation codes

TechCrunch, here.
See also here.

Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no

NiemanLab, here. 

Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI

EC, here. 

Online Harms White Paper

UK Gov, here. 

The Problems with (Dominant) Platforms

G. Crawford, presentation here. 

The SEC Just Released Its Long-Awaited Crypto Token Guidance

CoinDesk, here. 

Personalized pricing in the digital era

A. Schonfield, here.

Fortune favours the Brave: Privacy browser chap takes gripes over adtech body's website to Irish data watchdog

The Register, here. 

European Commission and European Supervisory Authorities launch new platform to improve cooperation on technological innovation in the financial sector

EC, Here.

How much additional funding would the FTC need to create a Bureau of Technology? Response no later than April 3, 2019

J. Nader, D. Cicilline, here. 

UK lawmakers want Big Four accounting firms broken up

Reuters, here. 

Why owning their national data is important for developing countries

IT for Change, here. 

EU Delivers U.K. Tax Bill as Brexit Deal Eludes Parliament

Bloomberg, here. 

HOW TO THINK ABOUT BREAKING UP BIG TECH

The Intercept, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is considering paying publishers to put their articles in a dedicated news tab

Business Insider, here. 

When it comes to disclosing sponsors, your Google Assistant may be mute

Reuters, here. 

Three Reviews of Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism

J. Cohen, here;
R. Evangelista, here;
K. Ball, here. 

Daimler asks EU antitrust regulators to probe Nokia patents

Reuters, here. 

FTC Will Meet State Attorney Generals To Discuss Facebook and Google

Bloomberg, here.

67th ABA Antitrust Law Spring Meeting

MLex, Here.

Data sharing as pro-competition policy tool

Die Facebook-Entscheidung zum Nachlesen

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Wir Nutzerinnen sind der Kadaver

Matrix, heute hier. 

Apple Card raises pressure on banks — and fintechs

Payments Source, here. 

The Legal Challenges of the Data Economy

Conference, video here.
Randy Picker's presentation at 5:34:04, his slides are here. 

BBC pulls its podcasts from Google Podcasts and Assistant

The Verge, here. 

Skepsis bei EU-Ministererlaubnis

WiWo, hier. 

Consumer Data Right Draft Rules

ACCC, here. 

How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability

D. Watts, here. 

Conference report: “Can robots invent and create? A dialogue between Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property”

IPKitten, here. 

Reuse policy: a study on available reuse implementing instruments and licensing considerations

 Central IP Service of the European Commission, here. 

How Facebook grew too big to handle

FT, here. 

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism

The Verge, here. 

IAB Submits Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act to the California Attorney General

IAB, here. 

Apple’s new credit card means the tech giant is now battling the same banks that built Apple Pay

Recode, here. 

The Apple Card is a perfect example of Apple’s post-iPhone strategy

The Verge, here. 

Apple wants investors to focus on its services business. Regulators may, too

CNN, here. 

Google rival wants more details about Google's Android proposal

Reuters, here. 

The Global Governance of Online Consumer Protection and E-commerce

I. Lianos et al., here. 

The Machine As Author

D. Gervais, here. 

European Commission fines Nike €12.5 million for restricting cross-border sales of merchandising products

Press release, here. 

Digital Competition Expert Panel recommendations – CMA view

Here. 

Big tech faces competition and privacy concerns in Brussels

The Economist, here. 

UNLOCKING VALUE WITH CONSUMER DATA RIGHTS RULES

Accenture, here. 

Planet49: AG's Opinion

Here. 

Uber drivers demand their data

The Economist, here (and here).

Innovation mapping now

Nesta, here. 

Introduction to the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

CDEI, here. 

Use of personal data in online advertising

Report for the ICO, here. 

Amazon Pay inks Worldpay integration as it branches out in the wider world of e-commerce

TechCrunch, here. 

Kaspersky Lab files antitrust complaint over iOS Screen Time

The Verge, here. 

European Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising

Here. 

Is Brave The Next Chrome?

Nasdaq, here. 

Third EU Google decision announced today

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Google overhauls European search results to avoid probe

FT, here. 

Open banking explored in Canada

Law Times, here.
Consultation document here. 

“I have HIV, now what?” Tracking cookies found on NHS advice pages

Newstatesman, here. 

Supporting choice and competition in Europe

Google, here.

Instagram launches shopping checkout, charging sellers a fee

TechCrunch, here. 

Competition Law & Tech - A New Approach

O. Bethel, here. 

Most Amazon Brands Are Duds, Not Disrupters, Study Finds

Bloomberg, here.
Unclear who paid for this study.

Amazon Private Label Brands

MarketplacePulse, here. 

The Case for Investigating Facebook

D. Cicilline, here.

Letter to the FTC here.

Dealing with power in a brave new world: economy, technology and human rights

M. Vestager, here. 

FIS Buys Worldpay For $35 Billion As Payment Consolidation Heats Up

Forbes, here. 

Google Changes How It Displays Ads in Bid to Please EU

Bloomberg, here. 

Les abus de dépendance économique seront davantage sanctionnés

Lecho.be, ici. 

An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software

J. Gamba et al., here. 

Google's Display Advertising Stack (simplified)

Why are fintechs getting a regulatory pass?

American Banker, here. 

Tech: economists wanted

AEA, here. The article is here.

Argumente gegen ein Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger

MPI for Innovation and Competition, hier. 

"Wir brauchen einen faireren globalen Wettbewerb"

Der Tagesspiegel, hier. 

EU Industrial Policy After Siemens-Alstom

EPSC, here. 

The Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the world – but it didn't change Facebook

The Guardian, here. 

Tech investors include #MeToo clauses in start-up deals

FT, here. 

Margethe Vestager on Recode Decode

Recode Decode, here. 

Germany's Competition Agency Cracks Down On Facebook: But Is Antitrust The Right Tool For The Job?

Forbes, here. 

Das schlaue Örtchen – Die Toilette wird Hightech- und Designerprodukt

Heise.de, hier. 

ACM to complete market study into mobile app stores in April

ACM, here. 

Margrethe Vestager to hit Google with another fine

FT, here. 

PSD2: Banken müssen Drittanbieter-APIs für Testphase freigeben

Heise.de, hier.

Trusting in Antitrust: Actions Against Big Tech Are Now Palatable

NYTimes, here. 

Platforms and the Rule of Reason: The American Express Case

H. Hovenkamp, here. 

EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites

FT, here. 

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

Santa Clara University, Schedule and Video.

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

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

Facebook’s Biblically Bad Week

K. Swisher, here. 

Apple responds to Spotify with words, but no real answers

Charged, here. 

Break up Google, says News Corp

InnovationAus.com, here. 

Apple Defends App Store Policies After Spotify’s Antitrust Complaint

NYTimes, here. 

Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions

K. Bryan, E. Hovenkamp, here. 

GDPR and AdTech with Brave

The Capitol Forum, here. 

Addressing Spotify’s claims

Apple, here. 

Investment platforms market study: Consultation Paper

FCA, here. 

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

ODI, here.

Competition and Europe’s digital future

M. Vestager, here. 

How big data really fits into lending

FT, here. 

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

TechCrunch, here. 

UK competition regulator to examine digital advertising

FT, here. 

ACCC Preliminary report submissions: selected extracts and key points

NewsMediaWorks, here. 

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

TechCrunch, here. 

Spotify files EU antitrust complaint against Apple

Reuters, here.
See also here.

CMA welcomes Furman Review recommendations

CMA, here.
Furman Review here. 

Amazon, MFNs, and Second-Best Antitrust

R. Woodcock, here. 

Why regulation needs an overhaul

Nesta, here. 

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

Forbrukertilsynet, here. 

Google Gets Serious On Travel Bookings

AdExchanger, here. 

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

P. van Cleynenbreugel, here. 

Amazon to end price practice critics said could violate antitrust law

Axios, here. 

Digital Conglomerates and EU Competition Policy

Cerre.eu, here. 

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

Video, here. 

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

The Inquirer, here. 

Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model

The Economist, here. 

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

Brave, here. 

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

Video here. 

Since when is Apple owning the App Store a problem?

J. Gans, here. 

Google Search Dominance Has Businesses Paying for Their Name

Bloomberg, here. 

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

Judge Opens the Door to More Compensation for College Athletes

NYTimes, here.

Regulating in a digital world

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

OSS AND FRAND: COMPLEMENTARY MODELS FOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

V. Lindberg, here. 

When breaking up makes no sense

J. Gans, here. 

Here’s how we can break up Big Tech

E. Warren, here. 

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

Recode, here. 

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

MIT Technology Review, here. 

FCO Facebook Quadriptych

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

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

TechCrunch, here. 

12 women shaping AI

Nesta, here. 

The Servant Economy

The Atlantic, here. 

Data Trusts

K. O'Hara, here. 

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

DigiDay UK, here. 

SCALABILITY, INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF BLOCKCHAINS

The European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum, here. 

The Limits of Ethical A.I

J. Ito, Video here. 

What does the world look like to AI?

The Verge, here. 

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

EC Press Release, here. 

How and why consumers buy cryptoassets

A Report for the FCA, here. 

Trump’s Big Tech Bluster

Open Markets Institute, here. 

German fintech Raisin buys bank

FinExtra, here. 

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

D. Nieborg, A. Helmond, here. 

The case against Amazon

Politico.eu, here. 

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

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

Mexican central bank in talks with Amazon about new mobile payments

Reuters, here. 

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

ILO, here. 

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

Handelsblatt, hier. 

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

Reuters, here. 

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

NYTimes, here. 

ACCESS TO CASH REVIEW

Here. 

False negatives' recalibration

D. Malamed, here. 

Binge-Bying and the Rest

J. Kwoka, here. 

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

COMESA, here. 

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

Skift, here. 

Missing Link: KI - die Künstlichen Idioten des digitalen Kapitalismus

Heise.de, hier.

Autokonzerne suchen Heil in Koalitionen

StN.de, hier. 

The State of AI 2019: Divergence

MMC Ventures, here. 

El poder popular i la ciutat

F. Bria, Video here.

"Industriepolitik der Bundesregierung würde deutsche Exportunternehmen gefährden"

M. FRATZSCHER, T. DUSO, hier.

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

C. Sagers, here. 

Audizione della Commissaria europea per la Concorrenza, Margrethe Vestager

Documentazione per le Commissioni, qui.  

10 Ans Autorité de la concurrence: Félicitations!

"La" Conférence ici en direct

Global Data Privacy: The EU Way

P. Schwartz, here. 

Unfair Disruption

M. Lemley, M. McKenna, here. 

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

V. Kathuria, J. Globocnik, here. 

Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

NYTimes, here. 

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

ArsTechnica, here. 

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

ZDNet, here.
And the other submissions here. 

Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

J. Tirole, P. Rey, here. 

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

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

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

FastCompany, here. 

Amazon Strategy Teardown

CB Insights, here. 

The Role of Antitrust Law When Mergers Threaten Consumer Privacy

New America, here. 

When will Amazon launch its bank?

TheFinanser, here. 

The Making of the Fox News White House

The New Yorker, here. 

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

FT, here. 

NAOMI KLEIN AND SHOSHANA ZUBOFF ON THE RISE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM

The Intercept, here.