…far more difficult to analyze because the companies do not directly compete. Analysis is centered around theories of how the merger could impact their horizontal competition. For example, if a…

Matthew Lane · November 19, 2018

…the question becomes in which downstream market(s) competition could be foreclosed because companies don’t have access to Facebook. Could Facebook for example foreclose competition in the market for social advertising…

Jakob Kucharczyk · March 4, 2015

…promote, competition and innovation. The current case in point relates once again to search neutrality, but this time complaining rivals remarkably object to getting exactly what they’ve asked for over…

Glenn Manishin · May 23, 2013

…competing with platforms or simply reflecting on wider policy issues (e.g. here or here). The competition law perspective is a particularly useful one because competition law seems to be the…

Alfonso Lamadrid · November 24, 2015

…fails to dive deeper into questions regarding the cost of proposed competition policy changes when it comes to questions on consumer privacy and firms’ data security. Further analysis is provided…

Marianela Lopez-Galdos and Margarita Lazo · August 16, 2019

…any online communications platform “that makes news content produced by news outlets available to persons in Canada”, into negotiation with Canadian news companies to make those intermediaries pay to carry…

Lukas Ruthes Gonçalves · June 2, 2022

…the Chief Commissioner at the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, agreed with the previous panelists on MOUs, and added that Regional Free Trade Agreements were also incredibly useful. Chris…

Project Disco · April 1, 2019

…It can be hard to draw lines around these products when engaging in competition analysis. For example, is search everything you’d type into a search box? Or are there separate…

Matthew Lane · July 29, 2019

…competitive retail space, as incumbents enter and aggressively compete in the advertising space and foreign retailers increasingly compete in U.S. markets. Research shows that online stores and retail apps compete…

Project Disco · August 11, 2023

…where content licensing can give rise to competition concerns. Ofcom’s Political Timing Of all of these items, it is Ofcom’s proposals with regard to BT’s Openreach division that has the…

James Waterworth · April 26, 2016