Thursday, August 27, 2015

Offline? How Europe can catch up with US technology

 Centre for European Reform, here

The essence of Josh Wright’s FTC tenure was to ensure that benefits outweigh costs; the rest is commentary

G. Manne, here

Improving quality isn’t anti-competitive

Googlepolicyeurope.blogspot, here

Price Comparison Websites

D. Ronayne, here

Rechtswidrige Beschränkungen des Online-Vertriebs bei Laufschuhen von ASICS

Bundeskartellamt, hier

PRS for Music takes SoundCloud to court

Musicweek.com, here

Internet and Mobile Association of India Opposes Zero Rating

Press Release, here

Digital Star Chamber

F. Pasquale, here

#BajarPrecioGasolina: 30 recomendaciones de la CNMC

CNMC, aquì

Lobby-Kampf um die EU-Datenschutzreform kommt ins Kino

Heise.de, hier

Digital platforms: Competition and government oversight

Application Developers Alliance, here.

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Wenn die Bestpreisklauseln wegfallen, sinken dann jetzt die Preise?

FAZ, hier

Supply Chains Morphing Into ‘Value Webs’

Deloitte, here

Consumer Watchdog alleges Apple Music plot to crush streaming music business

Katyonthehill.com, here.
Letter here

Australian Online Copyright Infringement Research

TNS for the Department of Communications, here

CJEU ruling in Huawei/ZTE leaves the door open to injunctive relief in SEP litigation

Allen & Overy, here

Google, Facebook get behind Samsung in patent battle with Apple

CNET.com, here

Taylor Swift: Can online travel learn from her haggling skill?

Tnooz, here

Auch Monopolist darf Patentverletzer verklagen

FAZ, hier

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Brazil agency to offer pro-competition view on any Uber lawsuits

WKZO, here

CJEU: Huawei v. ZTE

Press release, here. Judgment here.

"Moreover, in February 2013 a German Regional Tribunal posed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) five questions whose answers could be influential in shaping the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU with regard to intellectual property rights’ enforcement in the context of standardization" from some notes I took back in April 2013, here (it feels like AGES ago).

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Rüstungslieferanten wegen Kartellabsprachen

Bundeskartellamt, hier

European Commission opens antitrust investigations against Qualcomm—again

ArsTechnica, here.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Apple’s Share of Smartphone Industry’s Profits Soars to 92%

Wsj.com, here

Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests

TheGuardian, here

Position Paper on Amazon’s Book Selling Practices

Authors United, here.

Challenges for Competition Policy in a Digitalised Economy

European Parliament, here

Banken im Strudel der Digitalisierung

Capital.de, hier

Patent Landscape Report on Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons

WIPO, here

Silently debuting homestays, Booking.com jabs Airbnb

Tnooz.com, here

Focus on the User

Costly comparison

The Economist, here.

Friday, July 10, 2015

Google, Yelp, and the Future of Search

J. Gans, here.

A few remarks on the role of intermediaries in the Digital Economy

J. Tirole, Presentation here

Productivity and competition: a summary of the evidence

CMA, here

Google quietly adds instant booking for hotels, copying TripAdvisor

Tnooz, here

The government says airlines prey on consumers. That’s the government’s fault.

Washingtonpost.com, here

Enabling versus controlling

A. Hagiu, J. Wright, here

The Ecosystem of Software Platform: A Study of Asymmetric Cross-side Network Effects and Platform Governance

P. Song, L. Xue, A. Rai, C. Zhang, here

Dependency Challenges, Response Strategies, and Complementor Maturity: Joining a Multi-Sided Platform Ecosystem

E.Altman, here

France forbids rate parity clauses by law

HotRec, here.

Passionate video explaining the "Loi dite Macron's" OTAs provisions and much more here (French).