Internet of Things: search engine for sleeping kids

ArsTechnica, here.

Off-Topic: Sending the Elevator Back Down

K. Spacey at Davos 2016, Video here.

Alphabet's Page: How to make a sizable business out of whatever problem this or that technology might solve

NYTimes, here.

Wende im Milliardenpoker um Fußballrechte

FAZ, hier.

TfL is quietly testing a system to track every single person on London Underground

TheMemo, here.

Big data : l’enjeu est moins la donnée personnelle que la disparition de la personne

LeMonde, ici.

Online Tracking: What's In It For Consumers?

J. Brill, here.

What is the impact of blockchains on privacy?

TheODI.org, here.

European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons

No-patents-on-seeds.org, here.

The Collaborative Economy

Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), European Parliamentary Research Services, here and here and short video here.

An Emerging Competition Law for a New Economy?

K. Coates, here.

How blockchain tech could change the way we do business

BBC.com, here.

Android OS has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit, Oracle says

Bloomberg, here.

Economics and Ideology

The Economist, here.
"Meaningless number-crunching to give a veneer of academic credibility to near-useless theories".

One Click Away? Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Keep Search Bar on IPhone

Bloomberg.com, here.

Digital DNA: The Nagoya Protocol, Intellectual Property Treaties, and Synthetic Biology

M. Bagley, here. 

Study hints at how e-Privacy Directive might be reformed – major changes on the way

Out-law.com, here.

Study mentioned here.

Sharing Economy, Blockchain Markets & Crowd-Based Capitalism

A. Sundararajan, Video here. 

Digitale Wirtschaft und Privatsphäre: Der Preis der Personalisierung

N. Jentzsch, hier. 

The FCO prohibits booking.com’s “narrow” best-price clause

S. Heinz, here. 

The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF’s Klaus Schwab leave out?

A. Maynard, here. 

Apple Presses Supreme Court for Appeal Over eBooks Price Fixing

Fortune.com, here. 

The Final GDPR Text and What It Will Mean for Health Data

Hogan Lovells, here. 

Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain

UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, here.

Internet providers want to know more about you than Google does, privacy groups say

Washington Post, here.

Towards a material ecology

N.Oxman,  here.

Blockchain Technology: Principles and Applications

M. Pilkington, here.

Disrupting the Disruptors

Nesta, here.

Emerging Competition Issues: Keeping Pace in a Changing World

CA Competition Bureau, here.

Towards a Digital Single Market Act

EP, here.

How I peeked at the personal data a billion dollar company holds about me

P.-O. Dehaye, here.

As More Pay by Smartphone, Banks Scramble to Keep Up

NYTimes, here. 

Digital transformations: An introduction

F.-X. Olleros, M. Zhegu, here. 

WhatsApp as a business channel

Whatsapp.com, here. 

Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World

S. Mehla, here.

Privacy and Drone Spying

NYTimes, here. 

Welcome to the Jungle: The Liability of Internet Intermediaries for Privacy Violations in Europe

B. van der Sloot, here. 

Information as Property

H. Zech, here. 

The law and economics of most-favoured nation clauses

F.Gonzalez-Diaz, M. Bennett, here. 

Which Future for Competition in the Global Trade System: Competition Chapters in FTAs

V. Demedts, here. 

Drug Wars:A New Generation of Generic Pharmaceutical Delay

R. Feldman, E. Frondorf, here. 

Antitrust Overhaul

R. Steiner, here. 

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data

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

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Competition in a big data world

M. Vestager, here. 

Ad Blocking: A Primer

TechCrunch, here. 

Tarifs bancaires : Bercy va lancer un comparateur sur Internet

LeParisien, ici. 

A Note on the Ethics of Nudge

C. Schubert, here. 

Building the intention economy

ctrlio, here. 

European Antitrust Chief Takes Swipe at Privacy Issue

NYTimes, here.

Unilever CMO predicts that consumers will be using some sort of virtual assistant in the near future

Adage.com, here.

Stop Chug-a-Lug-a-Lugin 5 Miles an Hour on Your International Harvester: How Modern Economics Brings the FTC's Unfairness Analysis Up to Speed with Digital Platforms

J. Wright, J. Yun, here.

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies: Elites Who Advocate Free-Market Competition

L. Lessig, here.

UK Government Response to EU public consultation on Digital Platforms

HMGovernment, here.

Un chauffeur de taxi peut aussi être sur Uber. L'article de loi l'interdisant censuré

Conseil constitutionnel, Décision n° 2015-516 QPC du 15 janvier 2016, ici. 

The Rise of the Platform Enterprise: A Global Survey

P. Evans, A. Gawer, here. 

IT giants debate on Big Data

Vodafone-institut.de, Video here

Some Reflections on ‘Switching Principles’ for key regulated sectors

The Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), here.  

Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

R. Feldman, M. Lemley, J. Masur, A. Rai, here. 

Fair Share: Reclaiming power in the sharing economy

B. Balaram, here. 

The economic impact of enforcement of competition policies on the functioning of EU energy markets

EC, here. 

Preisvergleichs- und Bewertungsportale als Verbraucherinformation

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

Do Consumers Care About Their Privacy In Practice? The FTC Digs Into The Debate

Adexchanger, here. 

Digital dividends

World Bank, here. 

This Rectal Thermometer Is the Logical Conclusion of the Internet of Things

Motherboard, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof: Facebooks "Freundefinder" ist unzulässiger Spam

Heise.de, hier. 

The Tradeoff Fallacy (Or the Privacy 'Paradox' Elucidated)

N. Draper M. Hennessy, J. Turow, here.

Privacy and Information Sharing

Pewinternet.org, here. 

In Letter To Google CEO, Sen. Franken Raises Questions Regarding Student Data Collection

TechCrunch, here. 

Google Maps will soon work out where you're going by itself

Wired.com, here. 

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respond

WEForum, here. 

Recommendation on protecting and promoting the right to freedom of expression and the right to private life with regard to network neutrality

Council of Europe, here. 

Innovation de rupture, droit et concurrence

Microeconomix, Conférence vendredi 29 janvier 2016, ici. 

Shops could soon be targeting ads according to your feet

TheGuardian, here. 

America's top privacy regulator refuses to wear a Fitbit

Theguardian.com, here. 

How Hotels.com uses email to keep me as a loyal customer

Econsultancy, here.

"So what is it about the Hotels.com offers and vouchers that get me? They feel relevant. They feel timely. They’re just the right amount of pushy". Email are "personalised, and relevant to trips I have browsed and taken in the past".

Market Study Into the Supply of Legal Services in England and Wales

CMA, here. 

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel verringern die Produktvielfalt

E. Argentesi, P. Buccirossi, R. Cervone, T. Duso, A. Marrazzo, hier. 

The sorry legacy of Internet Explorer

Wired.com, here. 

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet for the Blind

Technologyreview, here. 

Meet the Company That Doesn't Want to Know Who You Are

Zdnet, here. 

A Few Keystrokes Could Solve the Crime. Would You Press Enter?

J. Zittrain, here. 

Apple’s Android switching plan

Telegraph, here. 

Skratch Bastid's David Bowie remix takes off on Facebook

CBC.ca, here. 

Italian consumer organizations seek EU antitrust probe into McDonald's franchise

Reuters, here. 

The College With Mandatory Fitness Tracking Devices

Thedailybeast, here. 

Intelligent Virtual Assistant Market Worth $3.07 Billion By 2020

iCrunchdatanews, here. 

The three stages of printed pizzas and other wonders

Deloitte, here. 

Travel Search Site Skyscanner Raises $192M For International Expansion

TechCrunch, here. 

Auswirkungen der Safe Harbor Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs

Deutsche Bundesregierung, hier. 

General Data Protection Regulation: A Milestone Of The Digital Age

IAPP, here. 

What Mobile Ads Know About Mobile Users

S. Son, D.Kim V. Shmatikov, here.

Der erfasste Mensch

SZ.de, here.

Off-Topic: A Different Kind of Cartel

Rollingstone, here.

Capturing value in the evolving mobility ecosystem

Deloitte, here.

Unlocking the Value of IoT Through Big Data

GSMA, here. 

Richard Langlois to Lords and Baronesses re online platforms

here.

Digital platforms: an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating policy options

TNO Report, here.

VG Media reicht weitere Klage gegen Google ein

Leistungsschutzrecht.info, hier. 

Insurance companies prepare to insure Uber drivers

OttawaCitizen, here. 

Auto Distribution: Current Issues and Future Trends

FTC, here.