Google and Facebook also looked at buying LinkedIn

Recode, here.

EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"

B. Goodman, S. Flaxman, here.

Visa, MasterCard $7.25 billion settlement with retailers is thrown out

Reuters, here.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Challenges for Enterprises and their Stakeholders

IndustryWeek, here.

Tirole's Industrial Regulation and Organization Legacy in Economics

D. Fudenberg, here.

Digital voice assistants: Apps-Be-Gone!

DailyTrust, here.

Partage !

LINC, Ici.

EU competition policy in action

EC, here.

Market Power and Media Revenue Allocation in Professional Sports: The Case of Formula One

O. Budzinski, A. Müller, here. 

Licensed to Fail

EIFL, here.

Neue Waffen gegen Google, Facebook und Co

FAZ, hier.
Referentenentwurf hier.

Two Really Great News Lately, Despite Brexit

HathiTrust at U-M, NFB to make 14M+ books accessible to blind and print-disabled users.

Canada’s Accession to Marrakesh Treaty Brings Treaty into Force

And the EU should do the only possible decent thing, also not bad for its image in these troubled times: 

RATIFY THE TREATY IMMEDIATELY!

‘Big data is people!’

Aeon, here.

How Oracle’s business as usual is threatening to kill Java

ArsTechnica, here.

Spotify accuses Apple of blocking app and using store as 'weapon to harm competitors'

BBC, here.
Apple's response here.

The big data explosion sets us profound challenges - how can we keep up?

TheGuardian, here.

My rather messy ASCOLA presentation

Here.
As correctly pointed out by @mclucey, my handwriting is just appalling, sorry!

Market Definition and Market Power in Data: The Case of Online Platforms

I. Graef, here.

Access barriers to BIG data

M. Gal, D. Rubinfeld, Presentation here.

Regulation for Innovativeness or Regulation of Innovation?

A.Butenko, P. Larouche, here.

A vocabulary for conversing about entrepreneurship, innovation, and antitrust

A. Foer, here.

First Draft! Online Platforms, Rate Parity, and the Free Riding Defence

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

Abstract: A two-sided platform business is a new type of intermediary to be found in a growing number of economic sectors. As to the hospitability industry in particular, recent innovations in the field of digital technologies prompted the rise of so called Online Travel Agents (OTAs) and the demise of the traditional merchant model.

Recently national competition authorities (NCAs) in the EU investigated so called rate parity clauses in the contracts between the three largest OTAs and their hotel partners. These are contract clauses laying down the hotelier’s obligation to display the same room prices across sales channels. The parallel investigations conducted by the NCAs revealed an array of serious anticompetitive effects stemming from rate parity obligations. While the German NCA concluded that there was insufficient evidence of the efficiency gains of these clauses, and therefore decided to prohibit them, the French, Italian and Swedish NCAs implicitly recognised that some level of protection against free-riding was necessary, and accepted commitments to reduce the scope of the rate parity obligation.
The hotel online booking cases were closely followed in the EU and beyond, since they could help clarify a number of key assessment issues concerning a category of commercial practices already widely spread in online markets. In-depth analyses of the NCAs’ findings are now needed, especially in view of the promotion of an effective antitrust-based platform regulation. In particular, this article explores some of the challenges related to the application of the traditional free-riding defence to rate parity obligations.

Yandex vs Google: Decision on Fines

FAS, here. 

L’Open Internet Project veut canaliser Google via la loi numérique

ITEspresso, ici.

The Gig Economy

OECD Development Centre, here. 

Net Neutrality Rules Will Make Winners and Losers Out of Businesses

S. Greenstein, M. Peitz, T. Valletti, here.

Hillary Clinton’s Initiative on Technology & Innovation

HillaryClinton.com, here. 

Google bittet Sie um mehr persönliche Daten

Heise.de, hier.

Supreme Court agrees to review ATM fee antitrust lawsuit

Bloomberg, Here.

Digital Markets, Data, and Privacy: Competition Law, Consumer Law, and Data Protection

W. Kerber, Here.

The Economics of Mergers and Innovation: The Challenge for Competition Policy with Application to Pharmaceuticals

J. Kwoka, here. 

Innovation as a Parameter of Competition and its Implications for Competition Law Application

J. Drexl, here. 

Brexit Leads U.K. Lawyers to Seek Solace in Irish Bar

Bloomberg, here. 

South Korea antitrust regulator says investigating Apple on 'some matters'

Reuters, here. 

The ultimate Brexit Song

"It Doesn't Have To Be", Erasure, Video here.

You are one side
And I am on the other
Are we divided?

You are one side
I am on the other
Are we divided?
Why can't we live together
There are no rights
This isn't your decision
We need to talk of changing things
But no one wants to listen
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that
It doesn't have to be like that

A heart on the inside
The same as any other
Are we divided?
Someone always has to suffer
We are broken
There's no one left to change it
Is that the way it has to be?
Why can't we rearrange it?
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that

Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Alava mo ja na me me limbaniango limbaniago
Zimbabwe abo naga na me me limbaniango limbaniago

What is the secret
In calling me a brother?
Are we divided?
Always one against the other
We are strong now
Put down the ammunition
For what we know is right
Is gonna breakdown this division
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
(One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that (One against one)
(One against one)
It doesn't have to be like that

You are one side
And I am on the other
Are we divided?

OECD Ministerial Declaration on the Digital Economy (”Cancún Declaration”)

Here. 

#NotMyBrexit and Competition Law

Whoscompeting, Here.

Snippet-Streit: Verleger gehen gegen Kartellurteil zur Marktmacht von Google vor

Heise.de, hier.

AI, Apple and Google

B. Evans, here.

Opération transparence pour les comparateurs en ligne

LeMonde, ici. 

Can There Be a "One-World Approach" to Competition Law?

R. Hesse, here.

Qualcomm to Test Strength of China Agreement With Patent Suit

Bloomberg, here.

Online tracking – more than cookies

FTC Blog, here.

Klage gegen Adblock Plus: Teilerfolg für Springer, Niederlage für Eyeo bei "Acceptable Ads"

Heise.de, hier.
S. hier auch.

Brexit, quel avenir pour les low-cost britanniques et le transport aérien européen ?

LaTribune, ici. 

Drug prices post-Brexit – an expensive pill to swallow?

F. Bokhari, here. 

The Public Consultation on Regulation 1/2003: A Stronger Institutional Infrastructure for Fostering the EU Common Competition Culture

G. Petruzzella, here. 

Dear Europe...

IPKat, here.

Referendum result response

UK Information Commissioner's Officer, here.

CMA's response slightly more complex, I guess.

FCA exploring whether 'price discrimination' fuelled by big data benefits the few over the many

Out-Law, here.

Terrible Ruling In Germany: Digitizing The Public Domain Creates New Copyright

TechCrunch, here.

Innovation: The History of a Buzzword

TheAtlantic, here.

Four Takeaways from the FTC’s Healthcare Merger Losses

antitrustupdateblog.com, here.

The Art of Privacy

NYTimes, here.

UMICORE: abus de position dominante (approvisionnement exclusif)

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

The hidden risks of the bot explosion

Techcrunch, Here.

Concrete Problems in AI Safety

D. Amodei, C. Olah, J.Schulm, J.Steinhardt, P. Christiano, D. Mané, Here.

A Clash of Swords (The Intel Hearing)

T. Soames, Here.

Will universities be disrupted?

Recode, Podcast here. 

Assessment of current and future impact of Big Data on Financial Services

FSUG, here. 

Measuring the Economic Value of Cross-Border Data Flows

US Department of Commerce, here. 

Why notice-and-takedown is a bit of copyright law worth saving

C. Springman, M. Lemley, here.

OpenAI says it will build a household robot and intelligent agents

VentureBeat, here. 

Kayak’s cofounder talks about how bots are transforming customer engagement

Venture Beat, here. 

A New Paradigm for Personal Data

Facebook, here  (FB users here).

L’Oréal turns to vloggers to beat ad-blocking software

FT, here. 

Taylor Swift, Vince Staples, Paul McCartney and more call for digital copyright reforms

Independent.co.uk, here. 

CMA guides businesses on online competition law

Here. 

Kartelinspecteurs ACM bezoeken duizenden LinkedIn-profielen van havens en transport

ACM.nl, hier. 

The Proprietarization of Android – Google Play Services and Apps

T. Grote, here. 

Digital Assistants Will Serve as the Primary Interface to the Connected Home

Gartner, here. 

Consumers are worse off thanks to price comparison sites

Blogs.spectator.co.uk, here. 

Toutes vos photos vont devenir payantes pour Google : allez-vous gagner de l’argent ?

Numerama, ici. 

A Deep Look Inside Apple Pay’s Matchmaker Economics

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here. 

Kirtsaeng II

Here. 

The I’d Like to Add You to My Professional Network Edition

Slate Money, Podcast here. 

Council conclusions on strengthening the balance in the pharmaceutical systems in the EU and its Member States

Here. 

Will Germany ban ad blocking software? A quick look

M. Lüdow, here. 

Quel est l’objectif politique de la “société en réseau” ?

H. Gaillard, ici. 

Out-Of-Market Efficiencies, Two-Sided Platforms and Consumer Welfare: A Legal and Economic Analysis

F. Ducci, here. 

Data May Be Key in Microsoft-LinkedIn Probe, EU’s Vestager Says

Bloomberg, here. 

How to boost FinTech’s contribution to competition

ACM, here. 

FinTech’s Bright Future Marred by Hype

D. Evans and R. Schmalensee, here. 

Efficiency Claims: What’s New?

Symposium, here. 

Regulatory Challenges in Digital Markets: Privacy

BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2016, Programme here; Livestream here. 

Data portability among online platforms

B. Engels, here. 

Guns, Limbs, and Toys: What Future for 3D Printing?

A. Thierer, A. Marcus, here. 

New data on what connected cars are tracking

FiaRegion1, here. 

Journalism is getting personal: latest trends from the digital front line

Polis, here. 

Secrets of the Sharing Economy

Bloomberg, here. 

AG Szpunar says that time-limited e-lending is allowed under EU law and interpretation of copyright norms must evolve with technology

IPKat, here. 

The Antitrust and Intellectual Property Intersection in European Union Law

N. Petit, here. 

Competition is Messy: Merger Challenges

B. Baer, here. 

Competition, innovation, and legal services

FTC, here. 

Publishers in the copyright value chain

European Copyright Society, here.

Price Comparison Websites

D. Ronayne, here. 

What Ad Blockers Are (and Are Not) Doing

C. Wills and D. Uzunoglu, Here.

What is Differential Privacy?

blog.cryptographyengineering.com, here.

Innovation Is Not Enough

D. Rodrik, here. 

Price comparison sites to be investigated by competition watchdog

The Guardian, here.