The German FCO’s Facebook Case: Blurring The Line Between Competition And Data Protection Enforcement
This week Germany’s Bundeskartellamt, the Federal Cartel Office (FCO), made the news by issuing a decision against Facebook for the […]
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Quo Vadis, European Competition Policy?
“Shaping competition policy in the era of digitization” was the ambitious title of Brussels’ latest competition conference hosted by none […]
Europe’s Big Success Story In Digital: The App Economy
Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007. In 2008 Apple opened its App Store, the same year Google opened […]
The Bensalem Case: How the CJEU Will Effectively Decide on More or Less Digital Single Market
The creation of a Digital Single Market (DSM) has rightly been set as a policy priority by European policymakers. But […]
#CompetitionTalks Interview Series: Prof. Justus Haucap on Data as a Currency, Data Protection as a Competition Issue and Enforcement in Digital Markets
A while back we started our #CompetitionTalks interview series giving a place for competition policy experts to express their views […]
Competition and Big Data: Some Trends Never Go Out of Fashion
What do haute couture and competition policy have in common? Trends come and go but some things just never go […]
From Regulating Platforms to Platform Regulation in the EU – A 2018 Preview
At the time the new Commission took office, ‘platform regulation’ was one of those concepts most controversially discussed in the […]
#CompetitionTalks: Starting our Expert Opinion Series on Competition Policy in Digital Markets
How well do current competition rules work in digital markets? How easy or difficult is it to apply established competition […]
The Google Shopping Decision: When the Only Way to Be Law-Compliant is to Discriminate Against Yourself
After an investigation that has lasted for more than seven years (we discussed it earlier here), this week the Commission […]
In Case There’s Still Some Doubt: iOS Does Compete with Android, Australian Competition Authority Confirms
Back in January I briefly discussed an extremely interesting investigation conducted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) into […]
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