Thursday, March 19, 2015

Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google

WSJ, here.
Excerpts from FTC Google Report, here.

Competition World: A global survey of recent competition and antitrust law developments with practical relevance

NortonRoseFulbright, here

E-Books: Bundesregierung tritt für gesenkte Mehrwertsteuer ein

Heise.de, hier

The Net Neutrality Order: It’s Worse Than We Thought

NERA, here

Textbook cartels versus the real deal: Should we be surprised if some cartels do not lead to damage?

F. Maier-Rigaud, C. Milde, M. Helm, here

"We know that plain packaging works"

WHO, here

Banana cartel: GC ruling confirmed

CJEU, case C-286/13 P, here

The Theory of Two-Sided Markets: An Economic Bubble?

D. Auer, N. Petit, here

Antitrust in Two-Sided Markets: The Pros and Cons

Konkurrensverket, Seminar Recap and Presentations here

A Legal and Empirical Study of 3D Printing Online Platforms and an Analysis of User Behaviour

D. Mendis and D. Secchi for the UK IPO, here

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Prediction: Apple Will Not Renew Google As Safari Default Search Engine

SearchEngineLand, here

Internet of Things - Grand Challenge Workshop: Summary of key findings

Deloitte, here

All Your Marketing Data Belongs To Google & Facebook — Will You Keep It There?

MarketingLand, here

How Much For a Song?: The Antitrust Decrees that Govern the Market for Music

US Senate Hearing, Written Testimonies here

Google and the right to be forgotten

H. Kranenborg, here

Kulturpolitische Forderungen für das Urheberrecht im digitalen Umfeld

Bundesregierung.de, Positionspapier hier.

"Google sollte seine Nutzer bezahlen"

Sueddeutsche.de, hier

Why Congress Needs to Pass the Innovation Act This Time

Hbr.org, here

How Do You Google? New Eye Tracking Study Reveals Huge Changes

Forbes.com, here

Datenschlussverkauf in Brüssel

R. Gutjahr, hier

Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Twenty Years Down the Road: A Q&A With Paul Goldstein, Author of Copyright’s Highway

Sociallyawareblog, here

O2 parent Telefonica trials brand-sponsored data plans

MarketingMagazine.co.uk, here.

Bundeskartellamt untersagt Wettbewerbsverbote für Mieter in Factory Outlet Center

Bundeskartellamt, hier

Will Google someday rank web pages based on how accurate they are? A new paper suggests they might.

Searchengineland.com, here.

Agrar-Großhändler unter Kartellverdacht

FAZ.net, hier

Die Sektoruntersuchung des Bundeskartellamts zur Nachfragemacht im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel – Ein Kommentar aus ökonomischer Perspektive

J. Haucap, U. Heimeshoff, S. Thorwarth, C. Wey, hier

Leaked documents: European data protection reform is badly broken

EDRi, here

Waze can be preinstalled on your next Android phone: Why does Google need to stick two different mapping apps on your device?

TheNextWeb, here. See also here

Sunday, March 01, 2015

Abänderungsanträge sollen EU-Urheberrecht einbetonieren: Nächste Runde im Streit um Reda-Report

Netzpolitik, hier,

Time for Supreme Court to revisit baseball's antitrust exemption

MercuryNews, here.

Erneute Anhörung im Rechtsausschuss zum Leistungsschutzrecht

Internet-Law, hier.

Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web

SealedAbstract, here.

White House Proposes Broad Consumer Data Privacy Bill

NYTimes, here.

Why the iPhone confounds disruption theorists

J. Gans, here.


Henderson, Rebecca, and Kim Clark (1990), “Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms,” 35 (1), 81-112,  here.

Commissioner Wright Rightly Calls the Question on Section 5 Guidance

TruthOnTheMarket, here.

Android App Performance Report

AVG, here.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Pichai On Google's Vision, Mobile Revenue, Apple and China

Forbes, here.

UK government to improve protection for businesses against groundless IP threats

Press Release, here. UK government response here.

Antitrust, Capture, Federalism and the North Carolina Dental Case

H. Hovenkamp, here.

The Emergence of De-facto Standards

S. den Uijl, here.

Connecting Antitrust Standards to the Internet of Things

G. Wrobel, here

Google just paid $25 million to buy the entire '.app' web domain

BusinessInsider, here

Keystones to foster inclusive Knowledge Societies - Access to information and knowledge, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethics on a Global Internet

UNESCO, Draft Study here

Das Showkartell

Zeit.de, hier

Joshua Wright on Net Neutrality (not a big fan)

Video  here.