Facebook, Google, Amazon May Be Caught Up In Netflix Regulatory Flap

Investors.com, here. 

Whither Game Theory?

D. Fudenberg, D. Levine, here. 

Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition

TheEconomist, here. 

“Search disruption is coming!” and 9 other expert insights From LSA16

Searchengineland, here. 

Spontaneous Deregulation

B. Edelman, D. Geradin, here. 

AI progress fails to convince all investors

FT, here.

Is the world moving towards more or less competition in capital-intensive industries?

J. Levin, here.

Droit au déréférencement : sanction de 100.000 € à l’encontre de Google

CNIL, ici.

Network Effects Aren't Enough

A. Hagiu, S. Rothman, here. 

Big Data is Watching: Growing Digital Data Surveillance of Consumers by ISPs and Other Leading Video Providers

Center for Digital Democracy, here. 

Data protection through the lens of competition law: will Germany lead the way?

I. Graef and B. Van Alsenoy, here. 

Plateforme Le.taxi - Avis rendu au gouvernement

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Philadelphia Taxi Association files antitrust lawsuit versus Uber

PennRecord, here.

Meet the tech exec who wants the cloud to be Google’s moneymaker

Wired, here. 

Public consultation on the role of publishers in the copyright value chain and on the 'panorama exception

EC, Here.

Encryption - A matter of human rights

Amnesty International, here.

Legislation implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in Canada

 Parliament of Canada, here.

Google Now Card Offers Movie Piracy Advice

Torrentfreak, Here.

Platform regulation — ex-ante versus ex-post intervention: evolving our antitrust tools and practices to meet the challenges

A. Chisholm & N. Jung, Here.

Bußgelder im Sanitär-Kartell

Bundeskartellamt, hier. 

CrowdSignals Aims to Create a Marketplace for Smartphone Sensor Data

NYTimes, here. 

Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong

TechCrunch, here. 

Kartellamt nimmt DFB ins Visier

FAZ, hier. 

My Take on FBI’s “Alternative” Method

J. Zdziarski, here. 

Energy market investigation - Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here (758 pages).

PCW: 357-391.

Consumers’ Privacy Choice in the Big Data Era

S. Dengler, J. Prüfer, here.

Regulierung von Digitalen Vermittlungsplattformen für Privatfahrer

vzbv, hier. 

Google’s right-side Adpocalypse: What really happened (DATA)

SearchEngineLand, here.

On newspapers and ebooks, the Justice Department's antitrust theory is obsolete

LATimes, here.

The Global Privacy Enforcement Network

Annual Report (2015), here. 

Automating the Professions: Utopian Pipe Dream or Dystopian Nightmare?

F. Pasquale, here. 

Taxi And Private Hire Car Licensing – Consultation on The Impact of Modern Technology

The Scottish Government, here. 

Lufthansa says other airlines will follow GDS surcharge move

Tnooz, here. 

How the FCC's Privacy Proposal Could Affect More Than ISPs

AdAge, here. 

Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2016

Recordings and Presentations here. 

Apple ‘privacy czars’ grapple with internal conflicts over user data

VentureBeat, here. 

La menace d’une saisie du code source des iPhone serait crédible

Numerama, ici. 

Google looks to big data to cut traffic and create new product

SiliconBeat, here. 

Why real-time search algorithm updates may be bad news

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Spotify inks “no copyright claim” royalty deal with music publishers

ArsTechnica, here. 

No, the On-Demand Economy Isn’t About to Implode

WIRED, here. 

The death of Instagram for brands

TechCrunch, here. 

Newsonomics: In Southern California’s newspaper chaos, is anyone really speaking for the readers?

NiemanLab, here. 

Renzi puts brakes on Italy taxi reform

FT, here. 

Geo-blocking practices in e-commerce

EC, here. 

EU-Kartellrechtsuntersuchung: Geoblocking grassiert im Netz

Heise.de, hier. 

Data Wars: The banks awaken

AFR, here. 

FTC Amicus Brief Urges Appeals Court to Correct Legal Errors in District Court’s Antitrust Analysis of Reverse-Payment Agreement

FTC, here.

Big Data, Small Competitive Advantage?

Medium, here.

HOTEL ONLINE BOOKING SECTOR: THE COMMITMENTS OF ‘BOOKING’ AND THE MOST FAVORED NATION CLAUSES. A CASE CONDUCTED IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONAL COMPETITION AUTHORITIES

G. Cipolla, here.

Adblocking: The End of Free?

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here.

Government response on Harper ‘effects-test’ recommendation

Competition Law, here.

Fees Fought in TV Tube Antitrust Settlement

Courthousenews, here.

Des Québécois « ubérisent » le conseil.

LesEchos, ici.

Et si le prix unique du livre était aboli ?

F. Lévêque, ici.

Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy: European Report 2016

EC, here

Sweden’s publishers are joining forces to simultaneously block ad-block users

Digiday, here.

Sci-Hub: research piracy and the public good

TimesHigherEducation, here.

Apples Doppelmoral

FAZ, hier..

Globalization is becoming more about data and it's changing the competitive landscape

S. Lund, J. Manyika, J. Bughin, here.

10 March 2016: Internet Independence Day, no less.

TheGuardian, here.

Russian court turns down Google appeal in anti-monopoly case

ChannelNewsAsia, here.

How Much Personal Data Do You Give Your ISP?

BigThink, here.

Avant le déluge: le travail invisible des données

J. Denis, ici.

Study of the Impact of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Measure on Smoking Prevalence in Australia

T. Chipty, here.

Yelp’s Head of EU Public Policy: Europe Strategy Depends on Google Antitrust Case

Streetfightmag, here.

The CMA’s Energy Market Provisional Remedies: Right Direction but Inadequate, and Missing an Important Trick

D. Deller, here.
Also here.

LG Düsseldorf: Like-Button und Social-Plugins sind rechtswidrig (FAQ zum Urteil)

T. Schwenke, hier. 

Online Privacy and ISPs: ISP Access to Consumer Data is Limited and Often Less than Access by Others

P. Swire, J. Hemmings, A. Kirkland, here. 

Google says 'not now, not ever' will it become an OTA

Travelweekly, here. 

Resultados preliminares del estudio sobre los nuevos modelos de prestación de servicios y la economía colaborativa

CNMC, aquì.
Consulta pública aquì. 

UK and the EU: Benefits, Misconceptions and Alternatives

Lawyers-In for Britain, here.

Berichtsflut über Preisinsel Schweiz

NZZ.ch, hier. 

Strategia per il mercato unico digitale in Europa

G. Pitruzzella, here. 

Italy to adopt first "Sharing Economy Act" in Europe -- but does it share EU law principles?

R. Cohen, here.
See also here (in Italian)

Uber seems to offer better service in areas with more white people. That raises some tough questions

WashingtonPost, here. 

A vision for Market Research in an Information Age

CitizenMe, here. 

Two Powerful Mental Models: Network Effects and Critical Mass

T. Griffin, here. 

Bitcoin and Diversity

Stratechery.com, here. 

The intersection of data protection and antitrust law - finally a spot on case in the EU

M. Hall, here.

Counterfeit crackdown: Microchips hidden in luxury heels & bags

TheMemo, here.
See also here.

Even the UNWTO is talking about the sharing economy

TNooz, here. 

Potential Antitrust Implications of MFN Clauses

J. McKeown, M. Meckstroth, here. 

It's Your Data: Empowering Broadband Consumers to Protect Privacy

T. Wheeler, here. 

Do stricter environmental policies hurt export competitiveness?

OECD, here. 

Competing fairly in business – why it matters to start-ups

CMA, here.

Yeah, sure, think Skoosh for instance.

A State-Powered Green Revolution

M. Mazzucato, here. 

German Regional Court: Consent necessary when implementing the Facebook Like-Button

C. Piltz, here. 

The evolution of advertising: a technology tipping point

Ctrl-shift.co.uk, here. 

Appfail:Threats to Consumers in Mobile Apps

Norwegian Consumer Council, here. 

The New Mind Control

R. Epstein, here.

Cited article here. 

Opera integriert Adblocker

Heise.de, hier.

La donnée, nouveau carburant de l’économie

Lenouveleconomiste, Ici.

What Airbnb’s blockchain authentication proposal means for privacy online

TheStack, here.

CMA sets out energy market changes

CMA, here.

The inner workings of Digital Disruption

@PlatRevolution, here. 

Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns

Wired, here. 

Services de géolocalisation des VTC

Conseil d’État, ici. 

Instagram kills newly launched ‘Being’ app, which saw 50K downloads its first week

TechCrunch, here. 

Lonely Journey: From Economics to Law and Back

F. Jenny, Video here. 

Web Scale Analysis of Third-Party Tracking

T. Libert, Video, here.

Google’s New Mobile Tool Lets You Compare Destinations by Price

Skift.com, here. 

Facebook se lance dans la course aux droits sportifs

Numérama, ici. 

Data brokers and profiling in the Netherlands

F. Kreiken, here. 

Crowd-Based Capitalism? Empowering Entrepreneurs in the Sharing Economy

A. Sundararajan, here. 

The One-Way Mirror: Public attitudes to commercial access to health data

Ipsos Mori for the Wellcome Trust, here.

liqz-Studie beleuchtet die Gefahren von Tracking für die Privatsphäre

Mittelstand-nachrichten.de, hier. 

Competition: raising the anti

Lawgazette.co.uk, here. 

Google Search gets Destinations

VentureBeat, here.

Google Sides With Facebook Amid Data Dominance Probe

Bloomberg, here.

Brexit - Gaining or losing the competitive edge?

Allen & Overy, here.

Highlights from the Competition Bureau’s Workshop on Emerging Competition Issues

Competition Bureau Canada, here. 

Copyright, Competition, and the Digital Single Market

P. Ibanez Colomo, here, 

Google nimmt Anzeigen direkt auf seine Seite

FAZ, hier. 

Passenger rail services: competition policy project

CMA, here. 

ACLU Urges Feds To Adopt Privacy Rules For Broadband And Cable

FastCompany, here. 

Did Apple do a shady deal to get more movies/music in the Middle East?

VentureBeat, here. 

IAB Creates Guide for Publishers to Combat Ad Blocking

AdAge.com, here. 

Complaint regarding unfair contractual terms in the Terms of Use for the mobile application Tinder

 Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Does working at Google give you access to the data of users?

B. White, here.

(In the "good reasons" we trust).

Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) - the flipside of CRM

Diginomica, here. 

Instagram blocks links to Snapchat and Telegram

TheGuardian, here. 

"Facebook ist ein Monopolist"

FAZ, hier. 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues Seattle over Uber, Lyft ordinance

Reuters, here. 

Antitrust and 'Big Data': New Terrain for Inquiry?

S. Goldfein, J. Keyte, here. 

The Apparent Androidopoly Antitrust Case

S. Cleland, here. 

Bundeskartellamt eröffnet Verfahren gegen Facebook wegen Verdachts auf Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Living in a future Big Data world: can prosperity, freedom and fundamental rights be reconciled?

G. Buttarelli, here.

Adblock's business model

Adblockplus, here.

Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?

B. Love, C. Helmers, M. Eberhardt, here.

Robots in American Law

R. Calo,  here.

Apple Backdoor Case: A Code With A Viewpoint?

NYTimes,  here.

Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists

ArsTechnica, here.

Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

TechnologyReview,here.

Competition Challenges in the Consumer Internet Industry

CEP, here.

Mitigating the existing imbalance between data-rich and data-poor companies

G. Oettinger,  here.

Google’s AMP Is Speeding Up the Web By Changing How It Works

Wired, here. 

Bruxelles adresse ses critiques à l’encontre du projet de loi Lemaire

NextImpact, here.

Quick Take on Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Antitrust Law

A. Naik, Here.

Daten­schutz im Check: Viele Hintertüren bei Google, Netflix & Co

Stiftung Warentest, hier. 

CMA responses to consultations on the Digital Single Market (all in one place)

CMA, here. 

Landgericht Berlin: Urteil im Kartellrechtsstreit von Presseverlagen gegen Google (PM 14/2016)

Berlin.de, hier.

Sci-Hub: How Does It Work?

Scholarlykitchen, here.

Making communications work for everyone

Ofcom, here. 

The new new competition - How digital platforms change competitive strategy

M. Van Alstyne, S. Choudary, G. Parker, Presentation here. 

The right way—and wrong way—for cities to regulate Uber

Macleans.ca, here. 

Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web

Recode, here. 

Streetmap.EU Limited v Google

J. Morrison, here. 

Fed Up With Uber And Lyft, Drivers Plan To Launch Competing App

FastCompany, here. 

Business models in the Peer-to-peer economy

P. Belleflamme, Presentation here. 

Government must help end 'heartbreaking' Amazon dominance, former Number 10 adviser says

TheTelegraph, here.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

FAZ, hier.

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

TechCrunch, here. 

Why Authors Alliance Supports A Broader View Of Fair Use Than The Authors Guild

P. Samuelson, here. 

Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms

Bruegel, here. 

The making available right in the United States

Register of Copyrights, here. 

Western Union Questioned by EU in Money-Transfer Antitrust Probe

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Google Faces More EU Woes, Attorneys General Ask FTC To Revive Case In US

MarketingLand, here. 

The Montcalm Mystery: Comparison widgets on hotels' websites and Booking.com

TNooz, here. 

Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service

TechCrunch, here.

Meet the Fixers Collective: the geeks who are fixing iPhones for free

TheVerge, here.

What's Next?

C. Dixon, here.

Looking back and moving on

NewYorker, here.

Stack is the new Platform

labs.sogeti.com, here.

Why Is IBM Buying Ad Agencies?

Fool.com, here.

Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset

J. Poles, here.

New research shows UK online alternative finance market grew to £3.2 billion in 2015

Nesta, here.

Antitrust Experts Debate Apple’s Supreme Court Bid

PublishersWeekly, here.

The opportunities and ethics of big data

Royal Statistical Society, here. 

Streetmap v Google: lessons for pending Article 102 TFEU cases (including Google itself)

ChillingCompetition, here. 

PTO Weighs In on Digital First Sale

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here.

U.S.-EU Data Privacy: From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield

US Congressional Research Service, here.

Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position

Timesofindia, here.

Getting Around Section 230

E. Goldman, audio here; slides here. . 

How will acceding to the Marrakesh Treaty benefit Canadians?

Government of Canada, here. 

World’s cheapest Android smartphone goes on sale for just $3.67

ArsTechnica, here.

Netflix says going global has improved its personal recommendations

VentureBeat, here. 

Données personnelles : le virulent réquisitoire de la CNIL contre Facebook

Le Monde, ici.

A message to our customers regarding backdoors

Apple, here.

Linux and White House together to improve open source security

CIO.com, here. 

Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics

O. Malik, here. 

What if we don’t need advertising at all?

D. Searls, here.

AU: Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law

Submissions here.
ACCC here. 

Platforms, is there a need to regulate?

Digital4EU 2016, Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:15 – 17:25, webstream here..

Juno hasn’t even launched, but it’s already creeping me out with its data collection

Medium.com, here. 

Stealth Startup Juno Will Take On Uber By Treating Drivers Better

Forbes, here. 

Why does everybody hate competition so much?

C. Sagers, here. 

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Wired, here. 

It’s time to break the teeth-whitening monopoly

Washington Post, here.

European Union Competition Law in the Digital Era

M. Kadar, here. 

CCI rejects complaints of unfair practices against Ola, Uber

Moneycontrol, here.
Orders here and here.

So dynamisch sind die Preise im Netz

WISO, hier. 

The hidden traps in the Apple ebook case

R. Epstein, here.

"Prices will be the same"

S. Jobs, Video here.

A.I. and virtual reality may propel future of retail

Computerworld, here.

Before It 'Unlocks the Box,' The FCC Must Solve This Pricing Puzzle

Forbes, here. 

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence

Recode, here.

Kik Battles Facebook With Bots In The New Messaging Wars

Forbes, here.

‘Patent trolls’ on the prowl for ‘smart’ product providers

FT, here.

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

Fusion.net, here.