Industrie 4.0: Bosch will Standards vorantreiben

Heise.de, hier.

Expedia Will Pay Orbitz $115 Million if Antitrust Complications Scuttle Acquisition

Skift, here.

Stiftung Warentest: Reiseportale tricksen immer noch bei Onlinebuchungen

Spiegel.de, hier.

Fall Viagra und Co.: Bei Potenzmitteln spielt der Wettbewerb

NZZ, hier.

Google following Facebook down the zero-rate rabbit hole

GigaOm, here.

Konkurrenz für Tesla: Apple entwickelt offenbar eigenes Auto

FAZ.net, hier.

Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk

The Guardian, here.

Les bibliothécaires européens 'soutiennent le rapport Reda'

Actualitte.com, ici.

Why the high street is overdosing on caffeine

Tim Harford, here.

Data reveals a surge in the success rate of motions to dismiss after Alice

Iam-magazine.com/blog, here.

Competition, Consumer Protection, and The Right [Approach] to Privacy

M. Ohlhausen, A. Okuliar, here.

CMA appoints researchers to explore the commercial use of consumer data in three sectors

CMA, here.

Authorpreneurship

The Economist, here.

How 21 big tech companies got their names

TheNextWeb, here.

Droit d'auteur : rien n'empêche une loi d'être "inadaptée au contexte"

ActuaLitté, ici. 

La CNMC debate con expertos internacionales el diseño institucional de las autoridades de competencia y regulación

CNMC, Nota de Prensa, aquì. 

Antitrust, Privacy & Big Data: Setting the Scene

A. Burnside, here. 

La indemnización de los daños por el cártel de los rodamientos ferroviarios: ¿algunos millones de euros más para el Plan +Renfe?

F. Marcos, aquì. 

Regulation, antitrust and promotion of innovation? Challenges and experiences from communications to payment systems

Thursday 12 March 2015, 18:00 - 19:30 (registration from 17:30)
UCL Laws Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG


Speakers:
David Evans (Global Economics Group / UCL)
Steve Unger (Ofcom)
Andrea Coscelli (CMA)
Hannah Nixon (Payment Systems Regulator)
John Fingleton (Fingleton Associates)

Chair:
Antonio Bavasso (UCL / Allen & Overy LLP)

Website here.

EU Council backs European Commission proposal to fight against the manipulation of financial benchmarks

EC Press Release, here. 

New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace

WashingtonPost, here.

Expedia's $1.6 Billion Purchase Of Orbitz Not Likely An Antitrust Concern

Forbes, here.

Sometimes one wonders...Is this still journalism or should we better find another name for it? Competition  policy propaganda campaign (CPPC) perhaps? It is worth $115 million, apparently, here.

Most Big Data is Social Data

Blogs.lse.ac.uk, here.

Now It’s Expedia Vs. Priceline As Orbtiz Swallowed For $1.6 Billion

SearchEngineLand, here.

Antitrust in China: NDRC v. Qualcomm – One All

AllenOvery, here.

Google Play Services v6.7 Is Rolling Out [APK Download]

AndroidPolice, here.

Text and Data Mining

J.-F. Dechamp, here.

YouTube Networks Sue Music Service For "Copyright Trolling"

HollywoodReporter, here.

TTIP negotiations: CEATL sounds the alarm on literature and publishing not being covered by the so-called ‘cultural exception’

Ceatl.eu, here.

CJEU: Mere Accessibility of Websites Enough for Jurisdiction

M. Husovec, here.

Inventors choose to reveal their secret sauce before patent approval

Science Daily, here.

International Comparison of Approaches to Online Copyright Infringement:

IPO, here.

Ökonomie des Teilens - nachhaltig und innovativ?

T. Theurl, J. Haucap, V.Demary, B. Priddat, N. Paech, hier.

After Android: Ubuntu, Xiaomi, Meizu or Tencent?

G. Moody, here.

Qualcomm to pay $975 million to resolve China antitrust dispute

Reuters, here.

Android and Antitrust: Attempts at a "More Technological Approach"

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

Google is serious about taking on telecom. Here’s why it’ll win

WashingtonPost, here.

Pro-competitive benefits of real net neutrality rules: The Dutch case

Dfmonitor.eu, here. 

The first Tizen smartphone isn't an "Android killer"—it's a bad Android clone

ArsTechnica, here. 

Copyright and the Music Marketplace

US Copyright Office, here. 

As Apple-Google Deal Expires, Who Will Win The Safari Default Search Business?

Searchengineland.com, here. 

Bilan 2014 du marché de la musique enregistrée

Syndicat National de l'édition Phonographique (SNEP), ici.

The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study of Public Domain Photographs on Wikipedia

P. Heald, M. Kretschmer, K. Erickson, here. 

Weiteres Bußgeld wegen vertikaler Preisbindung im Matratzenfall verhängt

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

Learning from each other's experiences' - a review of the ICN Merger Workshop on cross-border cooperation

A.Baker, here.

The Advisory Council to Google on the Right To Be Forgotten

Here.

Google’s slippery slope: If search giant pays Twitter for content, should it pay all publishers?

VentureBeat, here.

Apple développe sa première application Android

Numerama, ici. 

EU taskforce to fight new Facebook privacy policy

ITpro.co.uk, here. 

Open Government Licenses Interoperability

LAPSI Report, here. 

Big Data and Differential Pricing

US White House, here.

(FTC "under pressure"?).

Dept. of Justice Blesses IEEE Rules on Injunctions and Reasonability

Consortiuminfo.org, here. 

Obama finds bipartisan support for first 'Big Data' privacy plan

Reuters, here.

How White House Thwarted FCC Chief on Internet Rules

WSJ, here.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

Wired, here.

Fürs Internet taugt das Kartellrecht nicht

FAZ.net, hier. 

Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger

Competition Bulletin, here. 

Antitrust, Privacy and Big Data

G.Buttarelli, here.

Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen, which hopes to take Android from Google

ArsTechnica, here. 

Wurstfabrikant Tönnies führt das Kartellamt vor

FAZ.net, hier.

Apple’s iOS tops Android to take first U.S. market share lead since 2012

Venturebeat.com, here. 

Warum Google und Uber sich gegenseitig Konkurrenz machen

FAZ.net, hier. 

Ansip:Copyright restricts Single Digital Market

Advanced-television.com, here. 

¿Qué nos han respondido a la consulta pública sobre Economía Colaborativa?

CNMC, aquí.

Projet Reda: une première analyse

Les autorités françaises, ici.

Facebook's got a new privacy policy, and it plans to share your data with partners

nakedsecurity.sophos, here.

Policy recommendations for open access to research data

Recodeproject.eu, here.

Patents Become A Literal 'Get Out Of Jail Early' Card For Chinese Prisoners

TechDirt, here.

Let the Right 'One' Win: Policy Lessons from the New Economics of Platforms

E. Weyl, A. White, here. 

Competition Policy and Intellectual Property: Insights from Developed Country Experience

F. M. Scherer, J. Watal, here. 

Evaluating Appropriability Defenses for the Exclusionary Conduct of Dominant Firms in Innovative Industries

J. Baker, here. 

Copyright policy and the right to science and culture

Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, here (Word File).

UK IPO Copyright Notice: knitting and sewing patterns (seriously!)

Here. 

PSI Charging Policy: A Conceptual Framework For EU Guidance to the Member States

M. Ricolfi, here. 

Friedrich Hayek's Contribution to Antitrust Law and Its Modern Application

T. Schrepel, here. 

Google Now now SLURPS data from third party apps so YOU don't have to

The Register, here.

S. Korea's antitrust watchdog takes aim at global tech companies - again

koreaherald.com, here.

Booking.com: senza la rate parity per gli hotel sarebbero guai

Bookingblog.com, here. 

How, and Why, Apple overtook Microsoft

NYTimes, here. 

Google will change its privacy policy after signing an agreement with the UK’s data regulator

TheNextWeb, here.

One'd wish competition authorities were even half that proactive...

Empfehlung zum Internet der Dinge

Datenschutzstelle Liechtenstein, hier. 

Accolti gli impegni di iTunes, Google, Amazon e Gameloft in materia di diffusione di App apparentemente gratuite

AGCM, here. 

Google Revenue Falls Short as Competition on Mobile Intensifies

Finance.yahoo.com, here. 

US Scholars and Net Neutrality: Sometimes Antitrust Just Ain't Enough

Letter, here. 

Jeff Bezos: Raising the price of Amazon Prime was a great decision

GigaOm, here. 

Privacy and human behavior in the age of information

A. Acquisti, L. Brandimarte, G. Loewenstein, here. 

Frank Pasquale unravels the new machine age of algorithms and bots

Passcode.csmonitor.com/frankpasquale, here. 

Zoë Keating vs YouTube: The End of an Artist’s Right to Choose Where Their Music Appears on The Internet

Thetrichordist.com, here. 

Elektronische Etiketten: Preise werden beweglicher

Heise.de, hier.

Netflix’s Secret Special Algorithm Is a Human

T. Wu, here.

Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World

FTC Staff Report, here. 

One bright day in the middle of the night…: Reactions to my copyright evaluation report

J. Reda, here. 

Permission to Link Making Available via Hyperlinks in the European Union after Svensson

M. Burri, here. 

A manifesto for an e-lending limitation in copyright

 S. Dusollier, here. 

"Google Play edition"-Smartphones und -Tablets sterben aus

Heise.de, hier. 

Privacy and Competition in the Digital Economy

G. Buttarelli, Speaking Points, here. 

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Out-Of-Print Books

Neh.gov, here. 

Is the Shevill Doctrine Still Up to Date? Some Further Thoughts on CJEU’s Judgment in Hejduk (C-441/13)

Conflictoflaws.net, here. 

Google Updates Its Android Compatibility Definition Document For Lollipop

AndroidPolice, here.

Implikationen der Verhaltensökonomik für die Wettbewerbspolitik

J. Haucap, hier.