Tripadvisor chief Stephen Kaufer sees no threat from direct hotel booking

IrishTimes, here. 

Waze va concurrencer BlaBlaCar avec un service de covoiturage

Numerama, ici. 

Pratiques Unilatérales

F. Marty, A. Wachsmann, Chroniques ici. 

CMA warns UK estate agents against colluding in online portal selection

EU-competitionlaw.com, here.

Elsevier acquires online community SSRN

TheBookseller, here.
See also here.
See Elsevier's post here.
There is somewhere a lesson to be learned about how communities are formed and monetized in the platform society. Moreover, would authors respond/react by increasingly disintermediating (own blog, other more "private" repositories, etc.), possibly? Or what about a broader ArXiv?

Oracle v. Google - Day 5

S. Jeong, Storify here. 

Die Hotel-Branche soll die Zimmerpreise von Buchungsplattformen wieder unterbieten dürfen, kündigt Wirtschaftsminister

Tiroler Tageszeitung, hier. 

Retail banking market investigation: Provisional decision on remedies

CMA, here.

Waze brings its carpooling service to the Bay Area

TechCrunch, here.

A brief history of disobedience

Seriously..., Podcast here.

How much of an optimistic disobedient person are you?

Vermieter zeigen Berliner Ferienwohnungs-Verbot bei EU an

Morgenpost, hier.

Made in Roma - Marchi di produzione e di possesso nella società antica

Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Mostra, info qui.
V. anche S. Pastor, Dal “Domo Roma” al “Made in Roma”, qui.

Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects

VentureBeat, here.

Tacit Agreement Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act

W. Page, here.

Online Platforms, Competition Rules and Consumer Protection in Travel Industry

M. Colangelo, V. Zeno-Zencovich, here.

European Union Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law and Standardization

D. Geradin, here.

The Problem of Intra-Personal Cost

B. Galle, here.

Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case

J. Grimmelmann, here.

Forbes Tests New Tactics to Combat Ad Blocking

Forbes, Here.

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

TheGuardian, Here.

Some hope for software patents in the US after the CAFC's Enfish decision, but this is no game-changer

Iam-Media, Here.

How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing

TechCrunch, Here.

Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents show

TheGuardian, here.

Google faces record-breaking fine for web search monopoly abuse

TheTelegraph, here.

Okcupid And Google Deepmind: Happily Ever After? Purposes And Ethics In Datasharing

J. Persson, here.

Cybersecurity Futures 2020

The University of California, Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, here.

(Already compulsory reading for students attending my classes next semester - you're warned).

Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

Reuters, here.

Who Will Own Your Data If the Tech Bubble Bursts?

TheAtlantic, Here.

Competition Policy in a World of Big Data (again)

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

Slightly revised and updated version (and yes, this week's FR and D Data Report is also considered).

EU’s Vestager Considers Third Antitrust Case Against Google

A. White, here. 

Matchmakers: The Future of Online Dating Platforms?

Arstechnica, here. 

What Platforms Do Differently than Traditional Businesses

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Draft Study on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities

D. Seng, here.

Runkeeper tracks users when the app is not in use

Forbrukerradet, here. 

Ready for the week-end?

Spanish sherry maker fined by for cartel conduct aimed at raising export prices, here (Spanish)

Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust and Competition Policy

S. Martin, here. 

Antitrust in the Age of Amazon

NYTimes, here.

In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial

S. Jeong, here. 

The Blockchain is the new Google

TechCrunch, here. 

European online travel marketplace Evaneos picks up $21M funding

TechCrunch, here. 

Bundeskartellamt gegen Facebook: Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße?

D. Wiedmann, T. Jäger, hier.

Uber’s Antitrust Problem

Prospect.org, here.

In a $9 Billion Trial, Google's Secret Weapon Is a Filing Cabinet

MotherBoard, here. 

With help from Alexa, Kayak debuts voice-enabled travel search on Amazon Echo

SearchEngineLand, here. 

Fair use’ test at heart of $9 billion Google-Oracle copyright trial

MLex, here. 

GDPR and privacy are smokin’ hot for innovation right now

S. Carroll, here. 

Google to ban payday loan advertisements

WashingtonPost, here.
See also Led Astray, here. 

An EU exception for Text and Data Mining in the pipeline

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here. 

Targeted online ads: Do customers benefit from giving out personal information to advertisers?

Stanford Business, here. 

Patent Trolls: Moral Panics, Motions in Limine, and Patent Reform

E. Lee, here. 

Android Share Growth is Highest in EU5 (Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) in Over Two Years

Kantarworldpanel, here. 

3D, yes. But do it yourself not so much.

InsideStory, here. 

Wal-Mart Takes Another Swipe at Fees for Payment Cards

Bloomberg, here. 

Innovative uses of consumer data by financial institutions

EBA, Discussion Paper, here. 

Où est passé le bien commun ?

J. Tirole, ici. 

Keeping Pace in the Digital Age

T. McSweeney, Video here. Written comments here.

The next AI is no AI

TechCrunch, here. 

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age

TechCrunch, here. 

China's Baidu must cut paid-for adverts after death, regulators say

BBC, here. 

New report shows some publishers pay to join Snapchat's Discover section

Recode, here. 

The Role of Two-Sided Markets in United States v. American Express

E. Hochstadt and M. Thomas-Kennedy, here. 

BlaBlaCar dice que su conductor que más ganó obtuvo 3 euros en un año

ElPais, aquì. 

Competition Law, Market Power, and (Big) Data (retitled)

Autorité de la concurrence,
Bundeskartellamt, here.

The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

TheVerge, here.
Demo here.

Personal digital assistants are on the rise (and they want to talk)

USAToday.com, here. 

OLG Düsseldorf lässt einstweilig abblitzen

Hotellerie.de, hier. 

The digital age of data art

TechCrunch, here. 

How blockchains could change the world

McKinsey, here. 

Millionenbuße wegen vertikaler Preisabsprachen beim Vertrieb von Bier

FAZ.net, hier.
Fallbericht hier.

Disruptive innovations in legal services

OECD Secretariat, Background Note here. 

New app gives Uber a little disruption of its own

BostonGlobe, here. 

Vehicle Dealers Allege Car Carrier Price Fixing

Maritime-executive, here.
Complaints here and here. 

Chasing the Uber model is killing a lot of on-demand companies

VentureBeat, here. 

The Platform Society

J. Van Dijk, Podcast here.

The Future of Machine Intelligence: Perspectives from Leading Practitioners

D. Beyer, here.

It begins: BotRevenue.com to serve ads in bots

VentureBeat, here.

Retrial of Oracle copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday

SFGate, here.

Auslieferung wegen Kartellvergehens: EuGH prüft Staatshaftung der Bundesrepublik im Fall Pisciotti

Juve.de, hier.

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

MappingBabel, here.

One of the world's largest digital libraries opens doors to text mining scholars

HathiTrust, Here.

Challenging Anticompetitive Acquisitions and Enforcement of Patents

AAI, here. 

How Android gets to 100% market share

TechCrunch, here.

Facebook is building AI that builds AI

Wired, here. 

Italian Film Industry Condemns Paramount’s EU Antitrust Deal

HollywoodReporter, here. 

CMA publishes one stop guide to obtaining redress for competition law breaches

Out-law.com, here. 

New regulations for the grocery sector now in force in Ireland

CCPC, here. 

eBay acquires AI-powered big data processor Expertmaker

TechCrunch, here. 

An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe

OFE, here. 

Regulating Patent Hold-Up

LCII Policy Brief, here. 

3D printing companies request Supreme Court clarification over cheerleader uniform copyright case

3ders.org, here.
Petition here.
Amicus Brief here. 

Open Data, Privacy, and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework

F. Borgesius, J. Gray & M. van Eechoud, here. 

Sensay, a chatbot for getting help with any task, passes 1 million users

VentureBeat, here. 

Merger Remedies Guide

ICN Merger Working Group, here. 

Government Advocacy and Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project Report, here.

Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

NewScientist, here.

Liability for robots/AI generated harm

N. Petit, presentations here and here.

Disruptive innovation: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Forum, contributions here.

Anticipating Disruptive Strategies

Deloitte, here.

Australia should follow Europe against US digital giants

TheAustralian, here.

Los grandes fabricantes alertan: la marca blanca es 'invisible' para Competencia

ElEspanol, aquí

Google y el abuso de posición de dominio: una cronología

CNMC, here.

Online platforms: Commission wants to make the internet more like traditional media

Communia, here.

Google Is Feeding Romance Novels To Its Artificial Intelligence Engine To Make Its Products More Conversational

BuzzFeed, here.

Ever-Litigious Apple Loses Copyright Battle With China Over iPhone

Sputniknews, here.

Accountable Algorithms

J. Kroll, J. Huey, S. Barocas, E. Felten, J. Reidenberg, D. Robinson, and H. Yu, here.

Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights

The White House, here.

"Meet"...me

OFE, here.

Blockchain and big data privacy in healthcare

IAPP, here. 

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

TheGuardian, here. 

The business face of Big Data: do we have to care

CEPIC, here.

Antitrust regulators get tough on Google

KoreanTimes, Here.

As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Transient Power And A Few Dollars

BuzzFeed,  here.

Always On: Privacy Implications of Microphone-Enabled Devices

Future of Privacy Forum, here.

Big Data Does Not Shield Tech Companies From Competition

A. Lambrecht, C. Tucker, here.

What's at Stake in Algorithmic Accountability?

N. Couldry, here.

Now at an UBER rocky antitrust court bench: a follow up on the UBER price-fixing case

J. Nowag, here.

Is blocking ad blockers really illegal in Europe?

DigiDay, here.

Getty’s high-resolution competition law complaint against Google in the EU

M. Sag, here.

The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications

M. Montejo, here. 

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market

O. Batura, N. van Gorp, P. Larouche (and L.Filistrucchi), here.
TNO/Ecorys/IViR Report here. 

Musicians: canaries in the coalmine

J. Lanier, here.
WIPO Magazine, Interview here. 

Who's downloading pirated papers?

ScienceMag.org, here.

What is the European Commission’s problem with Google and Android?

M. Martyniszyn, here. 

Will blockchains remove the need for an intermediary?

iDate, here. 

Airbnb dumps Berlin holiday flats before city crackdown

IrishTimes, here. 

Bathroom supplier fined £826,000 for restricting online prices

CMA, here.

"The CMA will issue its formal infringement decision shortly."

Google Shuts Out Competitors on Android? Hardly

NYTimes, here. 

Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data

WRR, here. 

Google Tests Feature That Lets Media Companies, Marketers Publish Directly to Search Results

WSJ, here. 

Competition Tribunal rules against TREB in dispute over home sales data

CBC.ca, here.
CB's press release, here. 

PayPal Says Federal Trade Commission Investigating Venmo

Bloomberg, here. 

Whoa, Amazon isn't just making money. It's making more money than ever.

Wired, here. 

TripAdvisor acquires HouseTrip as home-rental market consolidates

VentureBeat, here. 

Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users

TechCrunch, here. 

Le Sénat adopte une disposition contre les abus de Google

Numerama.com, ici. 

Buchungsportal darf nicht mit eigenen Hotel-Sternen werben

FAZ, hier. 

Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, AU Government agency says

ABC.net.au, here.

Draft Report here. 

Colgate fined over price fixing

CPI, here.
ACCC's press release, here. 

The Force of Google

BBC Radio 4, Podcast here. 

Why the EU is going after Google and not Apple

R. Picker, here. 

La economía UBER

Focoeconomico.org, aquí.

BMW, Daimler Steer Clear of Apple Car Project

Technewsworld, here. 

Commission wants to regulate US-dominated online platform market ("leaked" draft communication)

EurActiv, here.
Draft communication here. 

Government Advocacy & Disruptive Innovations

ICN Special Project, Presentation here.

Unfortunately, I was so far unable to retrieve a copy of the report (conference materials available on the flash drive distributed to the participants in ICN 2016 Singapore, apparently).

The CMA has asked a number of supermarkets to review their promotions and agreed specific changes with Asda

Pree Release, here.
ASDA's commitments, here. 

Balancing the effects of online vertical restraints

M. Mandorff, Presentation here. 

How GDPR changes the rules for research

The Privacy Advisor, here. 

Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development

UNCTAD, here. 

Facebook considering a number of ways to let users earn money from posts

DigitalTrends, here. 

ICOMP on Statement of Objections against Google Android

Here.

7 Top Takeaways from EU’s Google-Android-Tying Charges

S. Cleland, here. 

Appropriability and the European Commission's Android Investigation

D. Auer, here. 

Google, Online Search and Consumer Confusion in Australia

A. Scardamaglia, A. Daly, here. 

EC Statement of Objections on Google's Tactics in Mobile

B. Edelman, here. 

Paranoid About Android

Bloomberg, here. 

Android’s Model of Open Innovation

Google, here. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Google on Android operating system and applications

EC, Press Release here.
Commissioner Vestager's Statement here.
Factsheet, here.
Press conference, recordings here (Statement) and here (Q&A)

Negative externality: my paper's massively outdated now.

Hankook Tire fined in China for resale price maintenance

Yonhapnews, here. 

Competencia y economía colaborativa

ElPeriodico, aquì.

Europe is targeting Google under antitrust laws but missing the bigger picture

J. Powles, here. 

Advancing the Internet of Things in Europe

EC, here. 

Fair Use and its politics, at home and abroad

J. Hughes, Presentation here. 

Statement Regarding Investigation into Alleged Anti-Competitive Conduct by Google

Competition Bureau (Canada), here. 

Online Platforms and the Digital Single Market

UK House of Lords, here.

Nice, informative read. The irony is, though, that given the actual pace of technological and other developments, some parts of it already feel a bit old.

Android App Distribution Agreements Do Not Foreclose Competition

Project-disco.org, here. 

EC to challenge French taxi law after Uber complaint

Reuters.com, here. 

Vorlagebeschluss im Berufungsverfahren um Zulässigkeit der Einstellung von Markenware auf Online-Plattformen

OLG Frankfurt am Main, hier. 

As search changes, Google changes

SearchEngineLand, here. 

L’autocar, BlaBlaCar et le chemin de fer

F. Lévêque, ici. 

Personal data in an uncertain world

Dataethnographies, here. 

Vergleichsportale sollen Suchkriterien und Provisionen offenlegen - freiwillig oder notfalls per Gesetz

Heise.de, hier. 

Disruptive innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Competition enforcement challenges and advocacy opportunities

OECD Secretariat, here. 

Parte l’esame su ddl sharing economy

Corriere.it, here.

Competition: the mother of invention

M. Vestager, here. 

How Will Facebook Make Money Off Live Video? Just Look at TV.

Recode, here. 

Judge Andrews permits Microsoft’s SEP-based antitrust claims against InterDigital to proceed (Microsoft v. InterDigital)

Kelley Drye & Warren, here.
Order here.

Trading start-ups are preparing major bank antitrust suits

Reuters, here. 

Automakers welcome new EU data protection rules

ACEA, here. 

Data brokers : le pétrole et l’iceberg

CNIL, ici. 

How to reboot the FTC

Politico.com, here. 

ABA Antitrust Section’s Spring Meeting—What You Need to Know

Perkins Cole, here. 

Watermarking and Blockchain Challenges

Copyrightandtechnology, here. 

Lyft Is Gaining on Uber as It Spends Big for Growth

Bloomberg, here. 

Das Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger Hintergründe und wesentliche Fragen

T. Kreutzer, hier. 

Say Nay to the Neighbouring Right!

B. Hugenholtz, here. 

Benefits of Competition and Indicators of Market Power

CEA, here. 

Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten: Sollte Datenschutz eine Rolle spielen?

N. Jentzsch, hier. 

Copyright Fight Club

Politico.eu, here. 

Ensure Hyperlinking Will Not Infringe Copyright Law: Advocate General Wathelet’s Opinion On Gs Media

Project-disco.org, here. 

Some Online Bargains May Only Look Like One

NYTimes, here. 

How Australian business views the sharing economy

NAB, here. 

Deterrence in EU merger policy

J. Clougherty , T. Duso, J. Seldeslachts, here. 

Perchas iguales, wifi o cafetera… así son las restricciones a la vivienda turística

CNMC, aquì. 

Argentine capital's gov't says Uber illegal, will be penalized

Latino.FoxNews, here. 

Personal Data Services Promise User Privacy

Networkcomputing, here. 

Opinion 01/2016 on the EU – U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision

WP29, here. 

Antworten auf die Fragen für das Fachgespräch „Kartellrecht und Plattformen“

Bundeskartellamt, hier.
J. Haucap, hier.

Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv),  Hier.
A.Baums, hier.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

Brisant, Sendung hier. 

Former FTC Commissioner: UFC investigations, antitrust lawsuit ‘ultimately about consumers’

Bloodyelbow.com, here. 

Sorry, but Uber Isn’t Conspiring to Fix Ridesharing Prices

J. Meyer, R. Meyer, here.