Last week the European Commission announced three separate investigations into anti-competitive practices in e-commerce. These investigations are the first enforcement […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · February 9, 2017

A while back I wrote about the European Commission’s competition investigation into the Android operating system (OS) and today’s mobile […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · January 11, 2017

The European Commission’s competition investigation into Google’s Android mobile operating system (OS) has unsurprisingly raised a lot of attention and […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · September 21, 2016

Last week the European Commission issued a supplementary Statement of Objections (SSO) to Google. The SSO is intended to support […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · July 21, 2016

Last week the Internet achieved a small, but nevertheless important, victory in Luxembourg. Hyperlinking should be kept from the scope […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · April 13, 2016

Continuing the “inter-platform dialogue” on platforms today’s post will be on the DisCo blog, but also on on the Chillin’Competition […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · November 30, 2015

One may wonder whether we are at the beginning of a ‘snippet saga’ in Germany. The Copyright Arbitration Board of […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · October 27, 2015

Right after coming back from a surely well-deserved summer break, the German competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, published its decision as […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · September 17, 2015

Early this month the European Commission unveiled its Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy. The strategy has the very laudable goal […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · May 29, 2015

Data is often presented as the lifeblood of our digital economy (please see here why it should not be referred […]

Jakob Kucharczyk · May 7, 2015