Uber's Cab Commission antitrust suit

Competition Policy International, here. 

Lund moligopolists

N. Petit, Presentation here. 

« Il est très facile d'ignorer ou d'exagérer les dangers de l'intelligence artificielle »

LesEchos, ici. 

South Korea regulator says to examine Google's Android agreements

Reuters, here. 

How do we reform tech?

Medium, here. 

An energy first as UK successfully transmits data via national electricity grid

TheGuardian, here.

Experts warn of privacy fears caused by Internet of Things

Computing.co.uk, here.

Apple at the Supreme Court: A Guide to the Big Samsung Showdown

Fortune, here.

United States: IP and Antitrust

Orrick, here.

On the Notion of Restriction of Competition: What We Know and What We Don't Know We Know

P. Ibáñez Colomo, A. Lamadrid, here.

L'écrivain est pauvre

France Culture, ici.

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström win the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Scientific Background, here.
Relevance for antitrust: incomplete contracts, privatization, public/private ownership. 

The politics shaping the Nobel prize in economics

The Guardian, here.

Is Your Digital Assistant Devious?

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Yahoo email spying claims prompt warning from UN rights tsar

The Guardian, here.

EU Copyright Reform: Intermediary Liability

C. Angelopoulos, here.

The liberating effect of killing off a state-owned rival

P. Osmosi, here.

NYC Uber users can now see exactly what their ride will cost before they request it

Recode, here.

Machine logic: our lives are ruled by big tech's 'decisions by data'

J. Powles, here.

HH Datenschutzbeauftragte rät davon ab, WhatsApp zu verwenden-und empfiehlt alternative Anbieter

Heise.de, hier.

Facebook and the Economics of Privacy and Big Data

Oliver Budzinski, Guest Lecture, 14 October 2016, 8.45 AM, Room 3C – Department of Economics and Management, Trento University.
Presentation here.

Google's Hardware Push Is All About AI

FastCompany, here.

European Commission signals Antitrust Enforcement Actions in the E-Commerce Sector

Cleary Gottlieb, here.

Platformes et accès aux contenus audiovisuels

Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, Ici.

Big Data and Competition Policy: An Introduction and a Few Myths

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here.

Recalibrating Patent Venue

C. Chien, M. Risch, here.

15 questions from consumers on copyright

EUIPO, here.

What can EU competition law do for speed skaters?

LeidenLawBlog, here.

Big data, smart enforcement

BEUC, here.

Strengthening Competition: Innovation, Collaboration and Transparency

J. Pecman, here.

Facebook/WhatsApp data swap deal being probed by Spanish agency

IndianExpress, here.

L'éditeur de logiciels Nexedi assigne Apple au tribunal de commerce de Paris

Challenges.fr, ici.

Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating

TechCrunch, here.

Verizon will soon start selling data plans for drones

TheVerge, here.

Apple mysteriously banned a popular app from its App store ... and a lot of programmers are mad

BusinessInsider, here.

Monetizing car data

McKinsey.de, here.

An in-depth analysis of how Expedia converts visitors into customers

EconConsultancy, Part One here.

Patent Assertion Entity Activity

FTC, here.

Only 146 pages, actually

I have seen the future of the Internet: Millions of rogue fridges will render it unusable

G. Moody, here. 

Protecting Privacy for Broadband Consumers

FCC, here. 

Big Data Rights: Let's Get Together

EDPS, here. 

The Pros and Cons of the Sharing Economy

Seminar in Stockholm staged by the Swedish Competition Authority on Friday 11 November, programme here, webcast here.

Neue Behörde soll Google bändigen

Handelsblatt, hier. 

Google's AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare

W. Turton, here. 

Echanges d’information : nouvelles frontières

Concurrences, ici.

Sabotaging the Competition: Lessons from Intel

M. Sonwinsky, Video here.

When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

ProPublica, here. 

Effectiveness of the purely turnover-based jurisdictional thresholds of the EU Merger Regulation

EC, Evaluation Roadmap, here. 

The Rise of the Machines – How Automated Digital Assistants Can Reduce Competition (and the Cash in Your Wallet)

A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here.

Commission plans cybersecurity rules for internet-connected machines

EurActiv, Here.

The Next Decade of Data Science: Rethinking key challenges faced by big data researchers

V. Polinski, here.

"data scientists often run the risk of studying what is observable rather than what needs to be studied"

How the digital age cuts through notions of material ownership

FT, here. 

Humanity’s war on latency: Semaphore to silicon photonics and beyond

ArsTechnica, here. 

Not OK, Google

TechCrunch, here. 

Everything you need to know from Google’s Pixel event

TechCrunch, here. 

Software patents are deadweight loss to economy, says Federal Circuit

WorldIPReview, here.

Life After Android: The Battle Of The Platforms Heats Up

Forbes, here.

Market Study Online Video Streaming Platforms

ACM, Video Here.

Well, these online platforms have been around for a while already, but it's true that they're continously evolving. In fact, it's tough to produce a market study in this area that isn't at least partly outdated while the ink is barely dry on it.

Amazon bans reviews based on free or discounted products

ArsTechnica, here.

Bibliography of Materials Relevant to the Interaction of Competition Policy, Big Data and Personal Data

C. Ritter, here.

The US no longer controls the address book for the Internet

Wired, here.

Free Trade Agreements Should Promote Generic Competition, Speakers Say At WTO

IP-Watch, here. 

Accelerating the Internet of Things in the UK: Using policy to support practice

RAND, here.
"...the survey results highlight that there is a strong
perception that consumers should be in control of their personal data at all times, signalling a distinctive move towards individuals themselves acting as their own ‘data controllers’."

Seedy business: Patent war looms over Europe’s crop diversity

Politico.eu, here. 

Enhancing competition in retail

R. Sims, here. 

Avec Marketplace, Facebook déclare officiellement la guerre à LeBonCoin

Numerama, ici. 

Révolution cartographique ?

Arte, Le dessous des cartes, Vidéo ici. 

Amazon Bets Big on India's Busiest Shopping Season

Bloomberg, here. 

Google invents a Touch Gesture System Designed Specifically for Future Smart Garments

Patentlyapple.com, here. 

Mergers would cut ‘Big 6’ to ‘Big 4’

Iowafarmertoday, here. 

A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy

J. Balkin, J. Zittrain, here. 

What The Rise And Stall Of Pokemon Go Can Teach Creative Marketers

Fastcocreate.com, here. 

Peut-on revendre la copie de sauvegarde d'un logiciel ? Réponse de la CJUE le 12 octobre

NextImpact, ici. . 

Salesforce Will Press Two Big Points in LinkedIn Antitrust Fight

thestreet.com, here.

The Netflix library has collapsed 50% in total title count since 2012

Exstreamist, here  

Online sales of posters and frames

CMA, Decision, here.

'Maintaining good relationships with customers is a legitimate objective, however where such an objective is achieved by means of an anti- competitive arrangement, that arrangement can be regarded as having an anti-competitive object.'

'Repricing software is normally used by online
sellers to compete with other online sellers by automatically adjusting
the prices of their products in response to the live prices of competitors’
products...However, in the present case the repricing software was
configured by the Parties to restrict price competition between them in
order to give effect to the Infringing Agreement'.

Fighting bid rigging in public procurement

Report on implementing the OECD Recommendation, here. 

Geographic market definition across national borders

OECD Background Paper, here. 

PCW Report

UK Regulators Network, here.
Letter to the CMA, here.
Notes from an acedemic seminar, here. 

Indirect Evidence in Cartel Cases

J. Kloub, Presentation here. 

Filmmakers Stealing From Painters: 20 Examples of Films That “Remixed” a Painting

Mentorless, here. 

Survey and data gathering to support the evaluation of the Satellite and Cable Directive 93/83/EEC and assessment of its possible extension

Study prepared for the European Commission, here.

Exploring Data Portability

The White House, here. 

EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected

Reuters, here.

Google’s Uber Competitor Is Finally Here

Fortune, here.

EU Court Confirms European Commission’s Decision on Pay-for-Delay Agreement

McDermott, here.

A Comparative Analysis of the Perception Differences between Competition Law and Anti-corruption Law

G. Gürkaynak, Ç. Olgu Kama, C. Özkanlı, & B. Ergün, here.

Price discrimination

OECD Background Paper, here.

BIG DATA: BRINGING COMPETITION POLICY TO THE DIGITAL ERA

OECD Background Paper, here.

Boehringer ordered to turn over documents in antitrust probe

Reuters, here.

55 percent of online shoppers start their product searches on Amazon

Recode, here. 

Movie Piracy and Displaced Sales in Europe: Evidence from Six Countries

B. Herz, K. Kiljański, here. 

Schär­fere Fusi­ons­kon­trolle für Internet-Unter­nehmen geplant

LTO.de, hier. 

Wer im Netz Milliarden mit unseren Daten macht

FutureZone.at, hier. 

A robot could get you the cheapest energy deal - forever

Aol, here. 

REALITY CHECK: THE REGULATORY LANDSCAPE FOR VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY

A. Hobson, here. 

Cartel bosses must be prosecuted

Iol.co.za, here. 

Networks of Control: A Report on Corporate Surveillance, Digital Tracking, Big Data & Privacy

W. Christl, S. Spiekermann, here. 

Facebook’s privacy head attacks ‘negative’ views around its use of WhatsApp data

MarketingWeek, here. 

Geo-blocking: BEUC Position Paper

Here.