Tag: Digital
EU’s Vestager Sees New Set Of Complications Over Metaverse
The EU’s digital chief Margrethe Vestager wants the future operation of the so-called metaverse to face more scrutiny, saying that plans to create an...
Gunnercooke Grows Antitrust Team With Digital Specialist Hire
Alexander Waksman, a leading EU and UK competition lawyer, has been appointed as Partner by challenger law firm gunnercooke, based in the firm's London office.
Joining...
Google Looks To Settle EU Digital Advertising Probe
Alphabet unit Google is seeking to settle an EU antitrust investigation into its digital advertising business, a person familiar with the matter said, a...
Vestager Wants EU To Focus On Creating Trust In Digital Tech
Europeans have low trust in technology and this might hamper the uptake of emerging technologies, the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager has...
Sony Music Diversifies Digital Distribution In China In Tencent Deal
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) announced Monday, May 17, that it has signed both a new direct China digital distribution deal with NetEase Cloud Music...
Potential Competition
By Chris Pike (University of East Anglia) & Takuya Ohno (OECD)
This paper discusses the concept of potential competition as an important pro-competitive factor. While...
Google Cloud Lands Univision Digital Deal
Google has secured one of its largest-ever cloud-computing contracts, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications, in a deal that shows how the tech giant is leveraging...
Platforms or Aggregators: Implications for Digital Antitrust Law
By Thibault Schrepel (Stanford)
Tech giants are commonly referred to as ‘platforms’ in our everyday language and academic circles. Some refer to ‘the platform economy’,...
France Has New Deputy Head Of The Digital Economy Unit
Elodie Vandenhende has been appointed to the newly created position of Deputy Head of the Digital Economy Unit, at Autorite de la Concurrence.
The Digital...
Germany To Update Its Laws To Tackle Market Power Of Digital...
Germany is modernizing its competition law to stand up to digital corporations. In the future, the Cartel Office will be able to act faster...