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.

Wer haftet, wenn selbstfahrende Autos Unfälle bauen?

FAZ, hier. 

Commissioner: UK 'must avoid data protection Brexit'

BBC, here.

Can a competition policy Brexit be avoided?

HP issues non-apology for blocking third-party ink cartridges

TechCrunch, here. 

Novel But a Long Time Coming: The Bundeskartellamt Takes on Facebook

R. McLeod, here. 

Vestager says EU may review small but data-rich M&A deals

Reuters, here. 

An Algorithm Gives This 3D-Printed Table Countless Permutations

FastCompany, here. 

Why almost everyone who tries to build an MSP business fails

R. Schmalensee, Audio here. 

Salesforce Is Said to Question Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal in Europe

NYTimes, here.

Learning to trust artificial intelligence systems

IBM, here.

Connect Peers

Deloitte, here. 

'Partnership on AI' formed by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft

TheGuardian, here. 

What Facebook Knows About You

ProPublica, here. 

Opinion on coherent enforcement of fundamental rights in the age of big data

EDPS, here. 

Big Data individual rights and enforcement

G. Buttarelli, here.

Pokémon Go menacé par les sculpteurs et architectes

Numerama, ici.

Tech Giants Team Up To Devise An Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence

FastCompany, here.

Principal syndicat professionnel du secteur du mannequinat et 37 agences: entente

Autorité de la concurrence, Décision ici.

EU’s Vestager ‘Exploring’ Need to Probe Deals With Valuable Data

Bloomberg, here.

Big Data and Competition

M. Vestager, here.

CMA launches study into digital comparison tools

CMA, here. Statement of scope, here.

Market Definition in Online Markets: Mission Impossible?

P. Akman, Presentation here. 

Vertical Restraints and e-Commerce: The Divergence of Economic Analysis and Competition Enforcement

K.-U. Kuehn, here. 

Uber, competition and regulation

D. Geradin, Presentation here. 

The European Commission extends its settlement procedure to abuse of dominance cases under Article 102 TFEU

White & Case, here. 

Why data is the new coal

TheGuardian, here. 

Fintech: The Regulatory Risks & Opportunities

Mlexmarketinsight.com, here, 

Neuer Ordnungsrahmen für den Wettbewerb in einer digitalisierten Welt

bmwi.de, hier,

How I Changed My Mind on Intellectual Property

FEE.org, here. 

Taxi and private hire regulation: CMA letter to City of Sheffield

CMA, here.

Using Behavioral Economics and Field Experiments To Make The World A Better Place

Vienna Behavioral Economics Network, here. 

Facebook and Google: most powerful and secretive empires we've ever known

TheGuardian, here.   

Italian Privacy watchdog probing WhatsApp

Ansa, here.

The Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017

WEF, here.

Facebook darf WhatsApp-Daten nicht nutzen

Tagesspiegel, hier.

Anordnung gegen Massendatenabgleich zwischen WhatsApp und Facebook

hier.

Statement of Objections to International Skating Union on its eligibility rules

EC, here.

Getty Images to Commissioner Vestager re Google Images

Letter, here.

AmEx can bar merchants from steering card customers elsewhere

Reuters, here.
Ruling here.

How Can Antitrust Be Used to Protect Competition in the Digital Marketplace?

ProMarket, here.

The Competence of the EU to Create a Neighbouring Right for Publishers

A. Ramahlo, here.

American Antitrust Is Having a Moment: Some Reactions to Commissioner Ohlhausen’s Recent Views

ProMarket,here.

A 3% boost to GDP from blockchain? It’s a real possibility

WEForum, here.

Marriott's next battle: the Expedia war

DailyHerald, here.

Taking a closer look at online video platforms

ACM, here.

Bias in, bias out

Nature, here.

An ode to the night train

Politico.eu, here.

Japan's antitrust watchdog considers action against Apple, carriers - sources

Reuters, here.

Bahamas Leaks : la trahison morale des élites

LeMonde,  ici.

The Social and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Near-Term

AI Now, here.

Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a “high-school level exercise”

QZ, here.

Liebe OTAs, habt ihr das denn wirklich nötig?

TopHotel.de, hier.

Matchmaking to Find Homes for Refugees

Bloomberg, here.

Grote Platforms, grote Problemen?

ACM.nl, hier.

Ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes failed to declare directorship of offshore firm

TheGuardian, here.

Still hoping that this isn't as bad as it might seem...

Abuse of dominance by firms charging excessive or unfair prices: an assessment

F. Jenny, here.

Wie das Hotelportal HRS seine Kunden manipuliert

Correctiv.org, hier.

The Untold EpiPen Story: How Mylan Hiked Prices by Blocking Rivals

M. Carrier, C. Minniti, here.

Cartel Detection: Introducing the V-023

ACM, Video here. 

Data Control – monopoly or individual control

Videos here. 

5 to 4, 4 to 3, 3 to 2: Lessons to be learned?

RBB Economics, here.

The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

D. Evans, R. Schmalensee, here.

UK watchdog drops plans for review of Big Data use by insurers

Reuters, here. 

Amazon’s algorithms are misleading customers and causing them to spend way more than they should

Qz.com, here.

Desorden judicial en defensa de la competencia

F. Marcos, aquì.

Personalisierte Preise

Vzbv, hier.

Amazon Says It Puts Customers First. But Its Pricing Algorithm Doesn’t.

ProPublica, here. 

Consolidation and Competition in the U.S. Seed and Agrochemical Industry

US Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, written testimonies here.

U.S. – E.U. Convergence: Can We Bridge the Atlantic?

M. Ohlhausen, here. 

Competition as Fair Process – the shared language of popular and expert antitrust

R. Hesse, here. 

Federalberghi: Booking "vìola palesemente le regole"

Corrierecomunicazioni.it, qui.

Competition for a Fairer Society

M. Vestager, here.

"Here in the United States, the Council of Economic Advisors has warned about the risks of markets that are increasingly dominated by a few large companies".

Commissioner Vestager on Recode Decode

Podcast, here.

Monopolkommission: Hauptgutachten XXI - Wettbewerb 2016

Hier.

Zentralvermarktung in der Fußball-Bundesliga S. 80 ff.
Digitale Märkte: Sharing Economy und FinTechs S. 363 ff.

Libre installation des notaires

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Google Steps Up Travel Presence With Trip-Planning App

Bloomberg, here. 

Monopolkommission: Airbnb und Fintechs nicht überregulieren

FAZ, hier. 

Commission fines ARA €6 million for hindering competition on Austrian waste management market

EC, here. 

Daten ohne Schutz: WhatsApp überschreitet rote Linie

vzbv, hier. 

Bundeskartellamt hat keine Einwände gegen App-basiertes Girokonto der Sparkassen

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

"Die gemeinsame Vereinbarung der Sparkassen darüber, die Basisversion des App-Kontos kostenlos anzubieten, könnte eine wettbewerbsbeschränkende Vereinbarung darstellen...Im Rahmen seines Aufgreifermessens hat das Bundeskartellamt entschieden, kein Verfahren gegen die teilnehmenden Sparkassen einzuleiten. Das gemeinsame Vorgehen der Sparkassen erscheint in diesem Fall gerechtfertigt, da so insbesondere auch kleinere Institute die Möglichkeit haben, über die App Neukunden zu gewinnen. Darüber hinaus erscheint es in dem derzeitigen Marktumfeld unumgänglich, die Basisversion eines App-Kontos kostenfrei anzubieten, so dass die Vereinbarung – wenn überhaupt – den Wettbewerb nur geringfügig beschränkt."

Salesforce Einstein delivers artificial intelligence across the Salesforce platform

TechCrunch, here. 

More on Lundbeck v Commission: some comments on the comments #ourreadersask

P. Ibanez Colomo, here. 

Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics

TheGuardian, here.

Uber and Little Cab’s battle to control the streets of Nairobi

Africa.tvcnews.tv, here. 

Brexit does not mean Brexit—it means “total chaos”

WIPR, here. 

How New Consumer Data Marketplaces Are Changing Advertising -- Forever

Forbes, here.

Susan Athey on Machine Learning and Econometrics

Medium, here.

Japan report finds Apple, Google hinder app sales competition

Nikkei, here. 

Grenzüberschreitende Nutzung von digitalen Inhalten erleichtern

vzbv, hier. 

La blockchain dans les industries créatives : peut-on accroître la transparence tout en préservant la vie privée des utilisateurs ?

LINC, ici. 

Opérations de visite et saisie inopinées dans le secteur de la fabrication et la distribution des sandwichs

Autorité de la concurrence, ici. 

Experiments in Intellectual Property

C. Buccafusco, C. Sprigman, here.

"Inventing a new pharmaceutical or producing a movie takes years of intellectual effort. The creativity that researchers can study in the laboratory, however, may involve minutes or even seconds".

General Court’s pay for delay judgment in Lundbeck – some guidance, but worries remain

S. Gallasch, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: The Economic and Policy Implications

S. Athey, Video here. 

The Commission’s proposed TDM exception: Who’s to benefit?

M. Caspers, here. 

Data Ownership and Access to Data

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Position Statement, here. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People: Implementation Guidance

The White House, here.

EU court confirms Thomson Reuters coding settlement

...Reuters, here.

T-76/14, here.

An Antitrust Review of a Bayer-Monsanto Merger

A. Grunes, M. Stucke, here.

FTC Approves Final Order Preserving Competition in Markets for 79 Pharmaceutical Products

FTC, here.

Fusion hängt von Bayers Bereitschaft zu Zugeständnissen ab

WiWo, hier. 

Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People

The White House, Executive Order, here.
Also "White House Summit on Behavioral Science Insights", here (live soon)

Anti-Surge Pricing

UN High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines Issues “Landmark” Report

IP-watch, here.

Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel On Access To Medicines

Here.

New EU Telco Rules

Arstechnica, here.

Competition and the Digital Single Market

M. Vestager, here.

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Preliminary Report

Press Release, here. Fact sheet here. Preliminary Report here.

Digital content:
- "the information provided during the sector inquiry... shows that multiple business models and a great diversity of licensing practices are available and indeed used, which can cater for the needs of both right holders and digital content providers";
-"Little substantive evidence was provided on the importance of pre-sale arrangements to fund new products by respondents, in relation to the products included in the sector inquiry."

E-Commerce Sector Inquiry: Second Batch of Results

EC press conference by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, 15 September 16.30h, here (not live bc of satellite technical problems...).

"If it is agreements between companies that are restricting e-commerce across Europe’s national borders, then you can expect competition enforcement to follow", speech, 11.09.2015.

My personal "highlights" (from today's press conference):

- investigation into online video games and geo-blocking still ongoing;

- E-commerce sector inquiry and pay-tv case "very, very distant relatives": former much broader (more "generic"), considering also consumer goods where there are ("obviously") the same restrictions but many more (I´d add that, with regard to digital content, restrictions in the licensing agreements well beyond geo-blocking have been identified by the EC);

- E-commerce sector inquiry as a source of information for the legislator (possibly, copyright - and geo-blocking regulation).

Bookatable-Reaktion auf Kartellrechtsbeschwerde

Ahgz.de, hier.

"Role of publishers" and Panorama exception: Synopsis Reports and Contributions

Here.

Bayer and Monsanto to Create a Global Leader in Agriculture

Bayer, here.

"Bayer has committed to a USD 2 billion reverse antitrust break fee, reaffirming its confidence that it will obtain the necessary regulatory approvals".

DSM Copyright: Impact Assessment

Part I, Part II, Part III.

Marrakesh Treaty: EU Implementation Package

Regulation, here. Directive, here.

Proposal for a directive on copyright in the digital single market

Here.

Facebook Probe in Antitrust and Privacy Gray Zone, Vestager Says

Bloomberg, here.

GC Judgment in Case T-472/13, Lundbeck v Commission: on patents and Schrödinger’s cat

P. Ibanez Colomo, here.

DSM proposals (copyright)

14 September, at 15.15h, live here. 

TableDennis.de lässt Mitbewerber vom Bundeskartellamt überprüfen

Eturbonews.de, hier. 

Uber's antitrust win in Uruguay

Asunto n°4/2016, aquì.

FRAND Arbitration: The Determination of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Rates for SEPs by Arbitral Tribunals

D. Geradin, here

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgelder gegen Fernsehstudiobetreiber

Fallbericht, hier.