June 15, 2021
Interoperability in Antitrust Law & Competition Policy
As the concepts of network effects, tipping, and lock-in have grown in importance with the rise, growth, and current ubiquity of platforms, data analytics, and computer software in the modern...
June 15, 2021
Big Data Protection: Big Problem?
Considerable debate exists as to the interaction of antitrust and privacy law. This nuanced debate encompasses many difficult questions: when is there a strong consumer preference for privacy, and when...
May 20, 2021
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Data Privacy Bill
Klobuchar (Democrat – Minnesota) has teamed up with a bipartisan group of senators, including Sens. John Kennedy (Republican – Louisiana), Joe Manchin (Democrat – West Virginia), and Richard Burr (Republican...
April 26, 2021
Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes
By Mike Isaac & Jack Nicas, New York Times At a confab for tech and media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July 2019, Timothy D. Cook of Apple and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook...
April 12, 2021
Open Banking in Brazil: A “Disruptive Step” Towards the Increasing...
Following an upward trend in the global agenda for digital-driven economies, Open Banking has emerged as a hot topic in Brazil. Since 2018, the Central Bank of Brazil has been...
March 12, 2021
The Battles Between Google, Facebook, and News Media Proprietors Over...
Google and Facebook have been in high profile dispute in Australia as to implementation of a news bargaining code promoted by a competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...
February 26, 2021
Facebook Mulls 2021 Launch Of Facial Recognition Glasses With Ray-Ban
A Facebook executive confirmed that the social media giant could release facial recognition glasses this year in partnership with Luxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban, Buzzfeed reported on Thursday (Feb. 25)....
February 15, 2021
Zuckerberg Told Employees “We Need To Inflict Pain” On Apple
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees close to him, “we need to inflict pain” on Apple for comments by Apple CEO Tim Cook that Zuckerberg described as “extremely glib.” This...
February 08, 2021
On the Competitive Effects of Single-Homing: The Case of Hybrid...
By revisiting the “competitive bottleneck” hypothesis in the context of multi-sided platform competition, this paper shows that the existence of single-homing consumers needs not to raise anti-competitive concerns regarding the...