Wild that the US, through antitrust enforcement, has been more effective at getting app store fees down than the EU, which relied on antitrust enforcement + a specific regulatory framework (the Digital Markets Act). A lesson in there somewhere!

🗨️Alexandre de Streel & @bostoenfriso.bsky.social shared CERRE research on AI at GW’s Competition & Innovation Lab conference. They addressed:

✅ AI supply-chain concentration
✅ AI Act implementation
✅ Competition policy in digital markets

🔎Explore CERRE's research cerre.eu/publications/

Short & sweet contribution to a @capitolforum.bsky.social story on Microsoft's integration of AI services in its productivity suite.

Small but symbolic: in the Google judgment, Judge Mehta writes about the EU's "Digital Marketing Act" instead of the "Digital Markets Act" (quite a difference in meaning!). Might be representative of the US's substantive engagement with EU competition policy (with notable exceptions, of course).

A real change of tone from Nick Clegg, who until recently headed policy at Meta. The poison is in the "they *claim* to read the same books" line. Makes me mildly curious about his upcoming book.

Via @bloomberglp.bsky.social.

US judges can be refreshingly direct (certainly compared to EU ones), but Judge YGR's contempt order in Epic v Apple is really something else. Worth reading in full (as I'm doing now).

Mark Zuckerberg making the case for a spin-off of Instagram - a potential (and logical) remedy should the FTC win its ongoing case against the company (even if I think such a win is a distant prospect).

Via www.thebignewsletter.com

Woah, I used this exact scenario in an assignment for my International Competition Law class last semester. Life imitates art!

Been trying out different search engines & found Bing interesting. Microsoft set up a gamified system that rewards you for searching. Not overly generous (I collected a 10 EUR gift card after a year), but does suggest other search engines are underpaying (unless their quality is higher).

So, should we conclude that the consumer welfare gains from a subscription to Netflix are higher than those its competitors?

Via @bloomberg.com

Great to see this in print!

I love the presence of 'competition' as a value in the US, from the old (American History Museum, first 3 📸) to the new (airport ad against Ticketmaster, last 📸). Special, even if the antitrust conversation doesn't always follow.

Is the Netherlands a #DMA enforcement paradise? This paper outlines how the #Netherlands has influenced the DMA & examines the ACM's preparations to play a key role in its enforcement.

Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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If you're still looking for holiday reading, let me plug my paper 'Creation and Competition in the Metaverse', which goes into interoperability & the creator economy.

If you have half the fun reading it as I had writing it, it promises to be a good time!

ssrn.com/abstract=497...

Interesting! Google is now experimenting with its DMA compliance, returning in Germany, Belgium & Estonia to something closer to the old '10 blue links' model for hotel searches.

🔗 blog.google/around-the-g...
🔗 support.google.com/webmasters/t...

Happy to see confirmed--in the opening of specification proceedings--that the Commission is following a dialogical approach in pursuing compliance with the Digital Markets Act!

🔗 ec.europa.eu/competition/...

This should be a good read! (And a long one, at 600+ pages..)

Giving this network a go because I can't imagine serious antitrust conversations taking place on Threads. Happy to be pointed to any antitrust.. posters (what's the equivalent of tweeters?). I've used Blue Sky Bridge to find people but am probably missing many.